RBP nutrition

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I was wondering if you can keep RBP on a diet consisting of tilapia, hake and shrimp. My school of 8 seemed to go mad for everything including the koi pellets I am still feeding them. Although they getting bigger, approx hand sized now, maybe a bit smaller. They not going for the pellets so much, like a bite or two and spit them out. They Just wait for the meaty foods I give them every 2 or 3 days. I don't know if they would still be getting all their vitamins and minerals on just a meaty diet
 
mattybecks said:
I was wondering if you can keep RBP on a diet consisting of tilapia, hake and shrimp. My school of 8 seemed to go mad for everything including the koi pellets I am still feeding them. Although they getting bigger, approx hand sized now, maybe a bit smaller. They not going for the pellets so much, like a bite or two and spit them out. They Just wait for the meaty foods I give them every 2 or 3 days. I don't know if they would still be getting all their vitamins and minerals on just a meaty diet
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When Rbp get older you can slow down their feeding to every couple of days, I have had great success with a pellet/talapia fillets diet, starve for a week then offer nls jumbo fish formula!

After that offer pellets every other day, then fish fillets once a week.
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Cool :) thanks! I've been feeding them twice a day, everyday. And they always get rose beetles, crickets, or mole crickets when I see them... Which is like everyday too. At what size exactly do you only start feeding them every other day?
 
mattybecks said:
Cool :) thanks! I've been feeding them twice a day, everyday. And they always get rose beetles, crickets, or mole crickets when I see them... Which is like everyday too. At what size exactly do you only start feeding them every other day?
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Well adults are generally a year and over, I go by this:

First 3 months 2-3x/ day
3-6 months 1x/day
6-12 months 3-5x/week
Year + 1-2x/ week

A lot depends on aggression, younger piranhas fin nip a lot and need constant food to avoid deaths, also depends on what you feed them and the current you have in the tank, pellets have a lot of protein in them, if their 5" or so id say every other day, a hungry piranha is a healthy piranha!

Here's my shoal
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demetri1k said:
Back when when i had my piranhas i would feed them whatever kind of meat i had in the fridge they liked steak


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Some meat can be oily, salty and injected with spices or chems, one must be careful not to affect water quality or fish's health.

Talapia is the norm as far as cheap and sustainable diet goes imo

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Thanks F1 vet :) ill keep said information in mind. I have two 1500 litre per hour power heads, and a 2000 litre per hour wave maker. So its a fair amount of current. Beautiful looking shoal you have!
 
mattybecks said:
Thanks F1 vet :) ill keep said information in mind. I have two 1500 litre per hour power heads, and a 2000 litre per hour wave maker. So its a fair amount of current. Beautiful looking shoal you have!
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Thanks, every Saturday they go nuts for talapia, its crazy the amount they consume! Then a day later I do a wc and that helps keep nitrates low, that and pothos!
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