Questions about feeders to LFS
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man i work at a lfs and i wouldnt do it. even if the goldfish are healthy theres much healthier fish to feed you piranhas. there no need to feed live food u can give them a mutch better and veried diet off live food. if you really want to i would set up a spare tank and breed convict cichlids to feed them. way less chance of transmittign disease and more nutricious fish to feed, plus you weill ahve a constant stock.
Half of my fish are Characins - they'll only eat live foods. Mollies are a buck a piece, @ 50-100 feeders weekly( depends on health and size of feeders ) - it'd be completely unaffordable. I have 2x10 gal and 2x30 gal feeder tanks. (hate runnin' to the pet store 1 or 2 x weekly) I prefer comets cause of their cold water compatabilties - to increase their nutrional value I feed them Hikari micro pellets, crumbled up massivore, and supirulina flake - my juvie rhom eats 3 small comets daily with the addition of a small chunk of either shrimp, pollack, and talapia. The RBP might eat 3 a month, prefers the prepared foods but enjoys the excersise from time to time of catching live fish.
There is NO way in hell - I'd ever thro fish from the river in any of my tanks. Wild caught fish generally always carry some form of parasite. Maybe once or twice a year the feeders might bring ick to the tanks - dose of cletted cooper- gone 2-3 days max. But every wild caught fish I've ever bought always come with flukes or worse.
I'd think twice about thoose Pike and Pickeral. Also fish cannot digest Fats that are contained in land mammals, it stays with them evertually killing them- so pinkies very bad idea as well.
If your P's are eatin' pellets (mine won't even consider a pellet) WHY change? It's probably the best nutrition you could feed a fish.
There is NO way in hell - I'd ever thro fish from the river in any of my tanks. Wild caught fish generally always carry some form of parasite. Maybe once or twice a year the feeders might bring ick to the tanks - dose of cletted cooper- gone 2-3 days max. But every wild caught fish I've ever bought always come with flukes or worse.
I'd think twice about thoose Pike and Pickeral. Also fish cannot digest Fats that are contained in land mammals, it stays with them evertually killing them- so pinkies very bad idea as well.
If your P's are eatin' pellets (mine won't even consider a pellet) WHY change? It's probably the best nutrition you could feed a fish.
i have never had a fish that i couldn't switch over to non-live foods, some of them were tougher than others, but it's always worked out.Otherone;3573490; said:
what size of tank do you think is suitable to breed convicts in? Believe me, petstore feeders were my last thought to get, but i just thought its possible that some are better then others and not having to wait for fish to breed would be quicker. But i also saw some convicts at LFS so I was thinking about setting up a breeder tank now.
a 20 long would work for breeding convicts, as long as it is something that you want to do and not something that you think you have to do to feed your fish, because they definitely do not need live food.
JoeDizzleMPLS;3575183; said:
yeah ideally you'd be able to get your P's on pellets. It might not be as entertaining, but it's much better for your P's. Feeding live is a good way to get them eating nothing but live food. It can be pretty expensive.
