Prey of A.Labiatus

[PwNz I R COLE]

I think I'm gonna buy a bunch of snails and ghost shrimp and krill as I want Thoes nice wild colors to come in idk about feeders or sword tails if anything I'll use rosies or sword tails if I have to also I'm gonna let alot of them reproduce in my 20 thanks everyone any ideas on worms tho


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[Miguel]

Keep a breeder tank of platties or swordtails. They are easy to breed and are natural prey.


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Exactly this!

 

[rdKirby]

Earthworms, meal worms oh and bloodworms...lil guy loves 'em.

 

[PwNz I R COLE]

Earthworms, meal worms oh and bloodworms...lil guy loves 'em.

Thanks I don't see him eating meal worms or earth worms he was afraid of a night crawler when I put it in the tank ahah but he love blood worms


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[fishman09]

Pellets...

 

[Chrisplosion]

Live gummy worms

Why do you want to feed live?

 

[PwNz I R COLE]

I want to feed live cause I'm doing a lake nicuragua set up so I want it to be natural down to the prey and I want Thoes nice varied colors like WC devils get


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[fishman09]

I hope you know that food will not effect the colors provided by genetics. The colors he has are the colors he will always have.


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[TheOscarGuy]

I have not heard that live food causes better colors. Sure it can get different coloring if it sees prey but tht effect will be only temporary.
Feeding high quality live food will be quite costly. And it probably won't be as good in the nutrition department as a quality pellet.
Maybe freeze dried food and pellets, with live food every 2 weeks or so ?


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[Chrisplosion]

You want to bring out the best potential color in a RD/Midas/Fader you put them over black gravel and background. But like was previously stated, it all comes down to genetics. If you are trying to create a Lake Nicaragua biotope then thats cool and all but feeding them those foods will not bring out better color if thats your goal.