Wide bar silver dollars
- Thread starter FishDog
- Start date
I toss a lot of food into my tanks and the ERH are meant as shoaling fish amongst the monsters as well as to pick up the scraps.
But the food I throw in for them is...
NLS cichlid formula 1mm
Hikari seaweed veggie (the new 2mm)
NLS Thera+A 3mm
Omega Shrimp pellets
Hikari Massivore
Looking at the website I like the ingredients list on the premium catfish sticks, think i'm gonna get my LFS to order some.
But the food I throw in for them is...
NLS cichlid formula 1mm
Hikari seaweed veggie (the new 2mm)
NLS Thera+A 3mm
Omega Shrimp pellets
Hikari Massivore
Looking at the website I like the ingredients list on the premium catfish sticks, think i'm gonna get my LFS to order some.
Very much an omnivore.
I feed mine tetra prima,flake,mussel meat,prawn,greens etc, like already said,these disc characins are not fussy, absolute opportunist scavengers in the wild.
bloodworm is good to get fussy feeders to take their first meal and is good to feed to suppliment the diet, however you will not get great growth rate by feeding this alone,pellets and granular foods contain far more nutritional value. So knock off the bloodworm asap and give them something more substantial, they grow alarmingly on the right diet.
I feed mine tetra prima,flake,mussel meat,prawn,greens etc, like already said,these disc characins are not fussy, absolute opportunist scavengers in the wild.
bloodworm is good to get fussy feeders to take their first meal and is good to feed to suppliment the diet, however you will not get great growth rate by feeding this alone,pellets and granular foods contain far more nutritional value. So knock off the bloodworm asap and give them something more substantial, they grow alarmingly on the right diet.
Yes 8" or so is about right generally, they can grow larger but that seems to be the norm in captivity.
I think regular SD's will get that large...lol
I think it was kolussus had some 12"+ and i think some of the so cal guys have some monsters.
You have a tig.. right? be careful mine ate every one of mine and they were 5"!
as far as food they will eat anything! Lets see them!
Your right ordinary Silver dollars(Metynnis argentea) can attain a good size though I have yet to see one actually 8", seen plenty at 6", these were female though.
Their larger cousins the Myleus of which the wide bar belongs are generally larger even under captive conditions but I have seen perhaps one specimen that exceeded 8" disc in 35 years of keeping and selling them.
They do as you say make 12" + in their native South America its just that in captivity this size is extremely rare.
