My piranha have been eating pellets since I first got them at around 2cms. They get pellets when I don't have time to thaw something. Quick meals and for in between trips to the grocery store. They love pellets of any kind or pretty much any food. Couldn't say if it effects their growth. I would think that quantity of food, tank size and number of water changes would effect growth more so than what your actually feeding them.
Who has their Piranha on pellets?
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Agreed, pellets are the best thing you can feed p's precisely because they are nutritionally balanced. All this BS about they need a varied diet is just that, it's BS. What they need is a nutritionally balanced diet and pellets are nutritionally balanced.
What do you think these pellets are made of ? Fish meal , krill meal, seaweed extract, spirulina, and a various vitamin supplements (that's hikari BTW). That seems balanced doesn't it? A piranha's digestive tract doesn't care where the nutrients come from as long as it gets them.
Overall i don't think there's anything wrong with feeding nothing but pellets.
Good luck
Howdy,
I've actually been thinking about spiking fillet with pellets, to add the nutrients our piranhas would get in the wild (by eating intestinal contents of prey). What most of us feed them is clean-cut fillet. Meat only. Look at scientific dog and cat food: Lots of plant matter, simply because they eat the whole animal in the wild.
HarleyK
I've actually been thinking about spiking fillet with pellets, to add the nutrients our piranhas would get in the wild (by eating intestinal contents of prey). What most of us feed them is clean-cut fillet. Meat only. Look at scientific dog and cat food: Lots of plant matter, simply because they eat the whole animal in the wild.
HarleyK
i have 10 pygocentrus nattereri (red belly) wild caught. I concur with F1, keeping them on a variety of things will keep them much healthier in the long run. I feed mine shrimp, live feeders, HBH oscar/cichlid growth pellets, beef heart, and different fish fillets (such as tilapia, catfish, etc). Although I must say, I love throwing in live feeders, and would much rather just feed them that (for entertainment purposes), They stay the most active when I give them a good variety. And as far as the pellets I use, they seem to be working, my p's got massive, quick.
Which is exactly what I do. I feed primarily raw shrimp, stuffed with NLS, or Hikari floating sticks. I started do this with my Armatus, used it on my Aimara's, and now use it for my Rhom. I was unable to get any of these fish on pellets, but I wanted them to have the benefits of both.
Chris
I feed mine home made pellets from dried fish ground into a powder and then mixed with protein and color enhancing vitamins they go crazy for that stuff and then I feed shrimp as treat and rotate tilapia every other day
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