what is everyone feeding their 2" silvers?

[joel]

Just picked up a two 2" silvers. never had an aro this small. what is everyone been feeding theirs?

 

[Bryantt]

teach it to eat pellets since it's a baby. i feed mine feeders and market shrimp. the big jardini i feed it feeders. once a month i give it a small mice from petco.

 

[Bderick67]

It would be hard for a 2 inch silver to eat pellets, their interior mouths are still soft. Raise it on freeze dried blood worms and some will accept a quality flake food. You can also feed it freeze dried baby shrimp or krill(I use the tetra brand it is soft).

Once about 5" you can start introducing pellets, and once you get them to eat from your hand the cut market shrimp is good.

 

[pwmin]

I also feed mine Omega One Freeze Dried Mysis Shrimp (kinda like krill but smaller and softer). It always ate FD blood worms, but took a little while to take flakes (currently eating Omega One Freshwater Flakes).

 

[BigJ]

Frozen brine shrimp is the best at that size

 

[Fishermoe14]

i raised mine since it had a yolk sac.. and i started it with omega one FD blood worms.. every once in a while id try a hikari food stick broken in half.. once he/she started taking them i stoped with the FD blood worms.. up to this date its still eating the food sticks.. just more

 

[joel]

thanks for info.

 

[Taboojen]

When I had a small aro like that I fed it hikari food sticks (broken in half as well) and small FD shrimp that i had soaked in water first. No problems there.

 

[Koji]

Once about 5" you can start introducing pellets, and once you get them to eat from your hand the cut market shrimp is good.

I use to do that hand feeding to my silvers.... now I dun dare to do so.

 

[likestofish]

Frozen brine shrimp is the best at that size

+1 and when it gets big enough try shrimp.