Post your Loaches' diets

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My 3x Yoyo Loach and my single Clown Loach eat:

From increasing to decreasing frequency

TetraMin flakes
crickets
Brine Shrimp
Mysis Shrimp
crushed up FD krill
bloodworms
I just tried dried up lettuce on a veggie clip for the first time, and they all love it :) I intend to try small pieces of Silverside sometime soon.

What about you guys? What do your Loaches' diets consist of?
 
in the same manner as above

jml catfish pellet
hikari cichlid gold
mussels
krill
zucchini
one of my smallest loaches has douled in size in three months!
 
NLS Thera-A
NLS Cichlid
NLS Wafers
Omega One Super-Color Flake
Omega One Veggie Flake
Frozen Hikari BW
Ocean Nutrition Formula 2-Frozen & Flake
Omega One Shrimp Pellet

EDIT: Forgot the veggies! Cucumber & blanched zucchini are their favorites, but frozen peas are good too.
 
My Clown Loaches eat:

Flakes
Dinaichi color supreme pellets
Columbian Ramshorn snails
Bloodworms
Occasional piece of earthworm they steal from my bichirs
 
JakeH;4449156; said:
NLS Thera-A
NLS Cichlid
NLS Wafers
Omega One Super-Color Flake
Omega One Veggie Flake
Frozen Hikari BW
Ocean Nutrition Formula 2-Frozen & Flake
Omega One Shrimp Pellet

EDIT: Forgot the veggies! Cucumber & blanched zucchini are their favorites, but frozen peas are good too.

NLS and fresh produce...here is a man who knows how to feed fish. Kudos to you good sir.
 
FLESHY;4449188; said:
NLS and fresh produce...here is a man who knows how to feed fish. Kudos to you good sir.


Thanks! I try to feed them right so I can charge top dollar for each specimen without a guilty conscience... HA! If I feed them crap they dont like, I'll just have to clean it up anyway. Mine also usually get gut-loaded snails, but not lately since my snail pit was wiped out by planaria. The dude at the LFS actually got upset the other day cuz my steady supply of well-fed oddball CL's & free feeder snails slowed down. I told him to...well...use your imagination. He charges customers double what I do for each oddball, so he can cry about it all he wants!:headbang2
 
I randomly choose between one of them on each meal:

NLS Thera A+
Tetra Color
Sera Viformo
Tetra bottomfish

and

Peanut bug larvae twice a month
 
Currently I feed mine:

Omega One Small Cichlid Pellets
New Life Spectrum 1mm Cichlid Pellets
Shrimp Pellets
Marine flakes
Earthworm flakes
Spirulina flakes
Hikari Algae wafers
Frozen Bloodworms
Frozen Brine Shrimp
Frozen Mysis Shrimp
Frozen & Freeze Dried Tubifex Worms
Frozen Peas (defrosted and skins removed)
Freeze Dried Krill
Raw Cucumber
Raw Zucchini
Dried Seaweed
Live Crickets (when they get into my house)
 
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