I normally feed my betta frozen blood worms as a treat. When I gave him frozen blood worms, he didn't know what to do with them.
Risks in feeding your fish feeders
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You know apart from the usual reasons to not feed feeders, I personally don't because it's too much work for me to:
- go to a lfs every week to get a bunch of feeders
- keep the feeders in a separate aquarium. Not to mention that the aquarium you're keeping them in has to be cycled and clean.
- net out fish every day and feed them to my predators.
Training predators to accept non live food is hard; at the begenning. But after that:
- throw a handful of pellets into your aquarium and be fine with it. OR
- cut up some frozen tilapia (or catfish or salmon or whole silversides) and chuck it in!
- go to a lfs every week to get a bunch of feeders
- keep the feeders in a separate aquarium. Not to mention that the aquarium you're keeping them in has to be cycled and clean.
- net out fish every day and feed them to my predators.
Training predators to accept non live food is hard; at the begenning. But after that:
- throw a handful of pellets into your aquarium and be fine with it. OR
- cut up some frozen tilapia (or catfish or salmon or whole silversides) and chuck it in!
If your going to feed your fish live food, quarantine them. I was planning to breed some rosie reds in my 10g to feed my oscar so I could have my own supply, and the ones I got from the lfs all died within a week. So, I don't trust the ones from the store.If your going to feed your fish live food, quarantine them. I was planning to breed some rosie
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Really not much nutritional value in feederfish anyway, mostly fats and oils and gross pathogens that kill your fish
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When I still had my pike cichlid. It was fed live feeders from lfs. So what I did was quarantine the feeders and fed them with good pellets. I would fed the feeders to the pike cichlid and slowly toss a feeder that I killed on purpose. Eventually it'll learn to eat the killed ones and then I would slowly switch it over to just killed feeders to frozen silversides. Once my pike started eating frozen silversides I stopped with the feeders and would just stuff the frozen food with pellets. It's a hassle but at least it's off live feeders. Less chance of infection.
in the reptile trade we call that "GUT-LOADING"
Used to own a few lizards back in the days
You tag me because tapeworms were mentioned? lol. I know the risks of feeders, killed a bunch of nice fish with them when I started the hobby lol.
yea, cuz we were talking about tapeworms in fish and going cold-blooded to warm-blooded....idk, I just immediately thought of our conversation when I saw that post
haha I figured. I believed you frank I swear! but the next time you infect your tank with tapeworms from not bleaching driftwood, you lemme knowyea, cuz we were talking about tapeworms in fish and going cold-blooded to warm-blooded....idk, I just immediately thought of our conversation when I saw that post
haha