Food Question

[bobbdd]

I know I asked this question before, but I'm a bit dense I guess.

My guys eat primary daphnia, brine shrimp, blood worms and a SMALL bit of pellets.

If they are on a frozen food diet primarly, we they be OK?

 

[miquel]

dear bobbdd,

i feed my apisto's mostly frozen food and pellet food with an ocasional squird of BBS and they are doing just fine. So IMO it's ok to have them on such a diet

miquel

 

[tjudy]

My fish (mostly Pelvicachromis) get mostly frozen bloodworm, a little frozen brine, live black worms (twice a week), bbs daily, and a flake mix of earthworm flake, spiruline flake and veggie flake.

 

[Park Bear]

Since I breed a lot of killies, I always have a lot of live foods around like BBS, blackworms, white worms, vinegar eels, microworms and grindal worms. I also feed beefheart, I buy a beefheart and freeze it and when I am ready to feed it I grate a few slices into the tank. So they mostly get whatever I am feeding most of my other tanks. I do feed them flake food when I am in a hurry, but most killies will not eat anything but live foods. If they do eat flake they won't lay any eggs.

 

[farm41]

I can't wait until it's warm enough to get my daphnia culture going again.

 

[vancat]

Bloodworms?

Hi all,
I read on somebody's apisto page that they don't recommend bloodworms for apistos. Something about a casing and digestion problems. Anybody subscribe to this notion? I've been feeding frozen bloodworms but have held off recently after I read that.

vancat in frozen CT

 

[farm41]

I haven't heard or read anything like that.

Could you post the link?

 

[vancat]

bloodworms

http://www.apisto.bravepages.com/apisto_Frame.htm

bottom of page
vancat

 

[vancat]

addendum

Actually go to "About Us"
then bottom of page

 

[farm41]

That's a first for me.

 

[vancat]

I guess I'll just ignore that & keep on feeding them bloodworms!

 

[vancat]

I guess I'll just ignore that & keep on feeding them bloodworms!

 

[farm41]

My apisto's have been eating frozen bloodworms for over a year, no ill effects here. They don't get a steady diet of them though, just a couple times a week. They eat mostly live foods.