To ALL snakehead owners - diet?

[IoStrisciare]

if you do want to dump all the feeders in, make sure you have a very very good filteration system going. Even if not hungry, SHs like to bite the tails off smaller fish. The stress inflicted on your feeders may cause some fatalities and hence a bunch of dead bodies in your tank.

 

[contender]

Thanks for the replies everyone,

Contender: I didn't find that problem with my SH when he ate shrimps, they were small so he just swallowed them whole, no shells anywhere. I think recently though, my marulius ate a little red clawed crab i had in there. i can't seem to find it anywhere.

i meant in their crap.....

i dont know what the deal was.... i threw in acouple of shrimp and a feeder, and it looked like it ate everything in about 4mins, and then crapped it all out 2 mins later... made a big mess...

anyone else experiene this?

$3 a feeder !!! wow.

living in Thailand, you get 20 nile talapia feeders for 25cents (USD) and about 100 fw shrimp for the same price...

 

[rumblesushi]

Here I buy 10 river shrimps for about 80p or something, which is about $1.50.

But feeders here are not legal, goes against some kinda animal rights etc, so I just have to buy a regular goldfish/molly etc which are at least 3 dollars in all the LFS.

It sucks.

 

[centaur]

I have 6 x channa panaw, 2 x channa "blue" bleheri in the same tank along with 1 x purple spotted gudgeon and 1xH. Malabaricus.

I feed them with tilapia frys I collected from the river beside my house.

 

[rumblesushi]

wow, how big is the hoplias compared to the other fish?

 

[deD3]

i feed mine with prawns,pork, chicken and whatever is the cheapest in the market now

 

[centaur]

My Hoplias is about the same size as the C. Panaw (4inch)

 

[jelly]

Sqratch. I feed meat to most of my fish, I avoid red meat as I have heard its hard for fish to digest and contains a high fat content.

I have a small Amazon setup and my neons love a bit of meat, its like watching minature pirahnas, which of course they are. My dwarf Cichlids love it to. I do cut it down to size and insure I remove any uneaten food.

On the going to Uni till xmas front, I would get your SH's eating pellets, It will be alot easier for your dad to maintain. Depends on how envolved he is likely to get.

 

[Calc]

sorry for bringing this old thread up, but you guys said earthworm, can i just get the earthworms from my backyard??

 

[DownUnder]

currently my micros is taking anything i throw in... it's a mixed diet of fish food and human foods which include beef heart, chicken, liver, mice, frog other den tat it's juz the usual fish feeders tat u get from any LFS... my bleheris are taking fish feeders ONLY... no human food... LoL...

cheers...