Pellets vs Purely Raw Feeding?

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If I could find that locally for that price it would be awesome. I think it is actually a little cheaper than the tilapia I get.
I only feed them this once every week or two weeks. One styrofoam last me about 1 1/2 month cause the polys eat about 1/4 lbs in one feeding.
 

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Polyaddict86 Polyaddict86 how do you serve a few anchovies or silvers life without defrosting the whole slab?
 
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Polyaddict86 Polyaddict86 how do you serve a few anchovies or silvers life without defrosting the whole slab?
What i do is defrosted the whole thing and once its defrosted i count the anchovies, 25-30 anchovies i seperate it wrap it with a surround wrap, wrap it like how you wrap a hard candy, so i keep doing that till the whole styrofoam is empty, then i get a ziplock, i put each 25-30 anchovies that is wrap in the ziplock and freeze it again. So when i need to get some i just need to get one wrap that has 25-30 anchovies and defrosted that without defrosting the whole sytrofoam again. I know 25-30 pieces of anchovies is alot, but then i have 16 bichirs, so if one bichir can eat 2-3 anchovies ill have enough for the rest off them.
 

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What i do is defrosted the whole thing and once its defrosted i count the anchovies, 25-30 anchovies i seperate it wrap it with a surround wrap, wrap it like how you wrap a hard candy, so i keep doing that till the whole styrofoam is empty, then i get a ziplock, i put each 25-30 anchovies that is wrap in the ziplock and freeze it again. So when i need to get some i just need to get one wrap that has 25-30 anchovies and defrosted that without defrosting the whole sytrofoam again. I know 25-30 pieces of anchovies is alot, but then i have 16 bichirs, so if one bichir can eat 2-3 anchovies ill have enough for the rest off them.
wow they eat that many? Do u Waterchange after they finish eating? I would think the water would smell bad. Which is cleaner and less stinky to feed? Anchovies or silver slides?
 
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wow they eat that many? Do u Waterchange after they finish eating? I would think the water would smell bad. Which is cleaner and less stinky to feed? Anchovies or silver slides?
I havent use silverside, but the water dont stink, just make sure there is not alot left over. But even when i see alot of left over the water dont stink or gets cloudy.
 

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Do you feed the whole thing or cut in half? They looked like good size smelt and anchovies. Are smelts messy to feed?
 
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The achovies i feed the whole thing, smelt i cut it in 3 pieces. I had a video that the polys were eating the anchovies, imma look for it.
 
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