Are Frozen Bloodworm Cubes Bad?

[Mike Wise]

I feed mostly brine shrimp, both live bbs and frozen. Bug Bites are basically a weekly suppliment. Yes, red are more subdued but still red, not orange/yellow that occurs with fish fed a primarily dry diet. Oh, my apistos ignore Bug Bites flakes, but my other fish love them.

 

[anewbie]

I feed mostly brine shrimp, both live bbs and frozen. Bug Bites are basically a weekly suppliment. Yes, red are more subdued but still red, not orange/yellow that occurs with fish fed a primarily dry diet. Oh, my apistos ignore Bug Bites flakes, but my other fish love them.

I was feeding some of my sub 1/4 inch tetra bits of omega-one flakes and noticed the wc elizabeth gobbling them down so maybe it comes down to species or mood or whatever. Btw it was the wc elizabeth that i was feeding live bbs to for several months as they were next to the hatchery. I shut it down for now. In truth none of the species of apistogramma i ahve seem that picky 'cept for maybe the wolli (not 100% sure since they always hide) and well that seems to be it.

Maybe we should catalogue the species to see if there is a commonality on pickiness or maybe they get use to me feeding them they just relaize whatever i put in there is probably food.

 

[Mike Wise]

Almost none of my apistos have ever taken flake food from the water column. Pellets? Only a couple of brands. As I wrote before, I feed mostly live and frozen foods. Maybe I spoil them. Why eat hamburger when you know you'll get steak if you wait.

 

[anewbie]

So my wild caught a. norbert who had never had flakes before had no problem gobbling down these 'colour' enhancing flakes by fluval though will note the first couple of seconds they didn't quite understand what i was putting in the tank until the dominant male viciously attacked one of the flakes.

As to whether i can put the red back in the fish not sure if it needs to be done when they are young or if it will reform at an older age but if i remember i'll report back in 60 or 90 days.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Whether it is inside frozen blood worms, I don't know.

It is haemoglobin in Blood worms (Chironomid larvae), they are detrivores, rather than algae eaters, so I assume they don't accumulate carotenoids.

cheers Darrel