PLS help me provide 4 my GOURAMI'S....

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petro_chemicals

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It would be greatly appreciated if u guys could help suggest an online store that sells large pellet food for my giant gouramis. They are getting bigger but are still only about 18 months old and tend to squabble when they dont get enough food. I cant seem to find any good brand large pellets in bulk. The hikari cichlid green large pellet was promising but i can only buy it in 200gram packs. What about protein levels? That pellet is 32%, is that ok? I am in Melbourne Australia and would love 2 hear any ones thoughts and contacts on appropriate food for my fish. They are about40cm. I was looking for a pellet about one cm in diameter. I wouldnt mind thoughts on budget staple food but also some good brands. I guess i want to know my fish really are being fed properly,not just fed. :nilly::popcorn:
 
That is alot of protien for a vegitarian fish. Feed them some partically cooked fibrous and starchy vegetables.
 
If you use lettuce dont use Iceburg lettuce there is no nutritional value in it.
 
zennzzo;2699488; said:
head of lettuce is good ask Yanbbrox...he'll be here soon to give you a great diet for your GG
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Here I am:welcome:

First off can you supply more details regarding tank size, filtration, fish size etc. Also what type of GG they are, if you don't know this just post a picture and we'll all take care of that for you as well:)

As a feeding guide remember that healthy GGs in captivity are pigs, they should eat anything. I can back this up, early on when we got ours we'd try anything just to find out what it would not eat. Chicken, sausages, pizza were all eat it no time, I know:screwy: I even met a guy once who fed his anything left on his plate after he'd ate, pies chips the lot!

Anyway back to more realistic feeding:

I noticed a few posts about lettuce, it's a great food nutrition for me doesn't come into the argument. They'll eat it by the ton load depending on size and lets face fact here depending on size I alway leave a few lettuce leaves in the tank at all times, mine loves to munch on lettuce, not as a staple food but more of a snack.

On the main try to feed vegetables and fruit should make up the most of the diet, anything else can be used as treats, ours loves cheese but craps the tank up so doesn't get it often.

Mix up the following and shouldn't go wrong:

Lettuce
Mango
Banana
Melon
Kiwi
Apple
Pear

The list could go on. Ours also gets some of the foods that goes into the other tanks as well, bloodworm, shrimp, prawns, daphnia etc most in cube form and swallowed hole:screwy: Pomegrantits are over here at the moment, one of the few seasonal things that still only come up a few times a year, and he goes mad for the seeds, one lasts about 2 days that's about 50 seeds a sitting

The easiest way we find to feed ours is see what fruit and veg is reduced on the weekly shop with a few days life on it and feed that.

You can't really go wrong if you keep it varied.

Hope that helped, and if you can post some pics:)

 
Almost forgot, maggots. In fishing season over here we end up with loads of left over maggots, another favorite. Worms disappear quickly as well.

Search the GG sticky and there is a vid of ours eating maggots in there
 
Yanbbrox;2702758; said:
Almost forgot, maggots. In fishing season over here we end up with loads of left over maggots, another favorite. Worms disappear quickly as well.

Search the GG sticky and there is a vid of ours eating maggots in there
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Thanks heaps mate .... They are in an 8×2×2 by themselves. Two fluval fx5's are running the tank with some airstones also. will try and send pics
 
petro_chemicals;2705654; said:
Thanks heaps mate .... They are in an 8×2×2 by themselves. Two fluval fx5's are running the tank with some airstones also. will try and send pics
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Your welcome.

:popcorn:for the pics
 
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