Purchasing live food! Need your answers!

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eternity302

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I was reading and reading through the forum and noticed people were talking about live food. I always fed my fish frozen blood worms and frozen krills and all sorts of freeze dried to pellets! BUT, one of you gave me the idea to go to the fishing supply store to buy live fish bait! They sell super meal worms, meal worms, crickets, night crawlers and big earthworms!
Are these safe for my fish to eat? and what's good and what's not? Cuz they even got neon night crawlers, are they dyed? that would be bad right? :nilly:
 
Yes, they're all safe or they wouldn't be sold as live fish bait.;) The dye is probably food coloring.
 
Do you know which will be best for juvenile oscars? I was thinking of big earthworms and night crawlers.. kind of creaped out with those super meal worms.. cuz all oscars intend to spit there food.. and i dun wanna see creepy legs everywhere!
Btw.. as for my RTC, would they enjoy these as well?
 
Your RTC won't have a problem shoveling all the food available. The oscars will need their earthworms chopped if they're still juveniles. Anything is fine.
 
=) thanks so much! I will buy every different bait tomorrow just for the fun of it! it's so much cheaper than any pet stores now!
Thanks for everyone giving me the idea.. now i'll save money =)
 
I wouldn't focus too much solely on live foods. Excessive proteins can cause bloat. Vary the diet. Before I forget, here's the chart provided by beblondie.

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They eat feeders.. but i went off on that already.. brings up the ammonia too quickly with their constant messy eating!
I do hikari cichlid gold, frozen krill, frozen blood worms, freeze dried blood worms, freeze dried krills and that's about it... all of them are from hikari, they seem to like it more!
But just felt like this will be a nice treat! Cuz i stopped all live feeder fish! they were cheap too $20 for 250 small live feeder! but they eat it like there's no tomorrow!
 
That's expected from fish. They are opportunistic by nature as they don't get much food in the wild as they do in captivity but you have to regulate their food consumption as they have no control over it. By the way, I edited the above post to include the chart by beblondie.
 
eternity- A cheap way of obtaining feeders is going out after a rainstorm and collecting earthworms.

Lupe, thanks for the chart.
 
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