Two questions about polys

[Askaleymanfish]

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You probably won't see much more growth out of the sens and the deal will grow a lot slower than 1" per month at that size. While they may not accept pellets now, you have to make them since you've hooked them on live food. Once polys are hooked on live food they have to most times be trained back onto pellets.

and it is a pain in the a** !!!!

 

[Dr.B]

Yeah the longer your polys are on live food the harder it gets to convert them to pellets.

 

[Nim Dibbley]

I'll give mine live earthworrms, blackworms and ghost shrimp periodically as a treat. obv, the pellets are the staple in their diet, but its fun to see them hunt once in a while.

 

[in_the_seance]

What ki
what size crayfish and do you take them out the shell?

Any size I just break off their little pincher claw and the polys tear them apart may have you'll left over that you'll need to remove asap.

Okay so bullfrog tadpoles are safe and sounds about right they just don't eat the pellets they didn't eat them when they were small so I never fed them and now it just decomposes in my tank

I've always started mine on pellets there is plenty of topics on this look through them starving is the method I see most. As far as the tadpoles theyre an invasive species here so I collect as many as I can the polys love them even nematodes get mauled.

 

[Champagne Papi]

The black sand will bring out the dark gray coloration. The white sand will bring out the whitish/light toned coloration that you desire. However each individual is different so while black sand will darken them up and white will lighten them up, one may get darker or lighter than another. While yes you can feed live food because it's "part of their natural diet" it's not as beneficial as pellets. The reason pellets are starting to become a better option to live feeders is because brands like hikari and NLS are starting to multiply the protein without your fish having to digest bones and such. Basically giving your fish a more beneficial meal.

Would it be the same if I fed quarantine minnows the pellet. Then they eat a very healthy nutritional Minnie?

 

[Champagne Papi]

You guys are making sense with the pellets but the best they'll do is frozen but I've had my segs for six months my biggest is 11 inches(Frankenstein), then my other grey bichir is 9 inches(Jack the Ripper), my albino is 8.5 inch (Dracula or Vlad) and my delhezi I got about 3 months ago is 6 inches( Lawrence Talbot) and I hear they supposed to grow an inch a month I think mine are getting enough with the feeders and the fresh market fish section

I say that because I got all of them when they were 3 inches and I got the delhezi before his fins even grew out (doubt he was a month old) at 1 1/2 inch

 

[Dr.B]

Not exactly. While yes they would absorb some of the proteins form the minnows the amount would only be about 10% of if they were fed the pellets directly.

 

[Champagne Papi]

Not exactly. While yes they would absorb some of the proteins form the minnows the amount would only be about 10% of if they were fed the pellets directly.

Ahhhh makes sense, flow of energy chart from biology class

 

[Dr.B]

Exactly. So it doesn't even compare to feeding the pellets directly to your fish. Yes they do eat live fish in the wild, but these pellets are made by these companies to be better for the fish and get more protein into the pellets.

 

[Champagne Papi]

Lol

Exactly. So it doesn't even compare to feeding the pellets directly to your fish. Yes they do eat live fish in the wild, but these pellets are made by these companies to be better for the fish and get more protein into the pellets.

lol are you guys are really dragging me to the pro pellet group