Sturgeon Food

TheReefer

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I am looking to get a Sterlet Sturgeon for my pond. Can someone point me to some high quality food for sturgeons?
Fresh/frozen fillets of tilapia
fresh/frozen/live shrimp/prawn
Hikari Sinking Carnivore Pellets
Cobalt Ultra Predator Pellet
Orchard Sturgeon Food Pellets
Earthworms
Crawfish (frozen and live)
clams
snails
 
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RD.

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Sturgeon require a high protein/high fat diet. I would personally not include a lot of the foods listed above, as staples. They will be seriously lacking in either crude protein, crude fat. or both. Especially the frozen/live foods.

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I currently have a 9" diamondback sturgeon (acipenser gueldenstaedtii), I bought it a little over a month ago for my 6000gal outdoor pond at 6.5" (extremely quick growth rate, second only to the beluga sturgeon). Right now I am growing him out in my 180gal. I have been feeding him sera sturgeon pellets as his main diet, with broken up massivore, jumbo bloodworms, and market prawn fed a couple times a week along with the sturgeon pellets. He has
 
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