Food

[BigDeady]

Hello all,
I'm just getting into the breeding side of the hobby and I'm about to get my first pair of apisto. I would like to feed them a mix of live and dried food. What kind of foods should I cultivate, and how would I cultivate them. I currently live with my parents so I wouldn't be able to cultivate things that smell bad. Thoughts?

 

[gerald]

If you have a place outside where you can keep a couple of plastic storage bins, you can grow various plankton (cyclops, daphnia, moina, moquitoes).
Indoors, grindal-worms are good for culturing (or white worms if you have a cool basement). They have a slight yeast smell, like bread dough, not unpleasant. Blackworms are another excellent live food, and dont smell (unless they die) but most people just buy these as needed rather than growing a culture. If you have a well and can provide a flow-through system, then culturing blackworms might work.

 

[BigDeady]

I am located in Texas so the summers get extremely hot, would that affect cultivating things outside?

 

[Linus_Cello]

If you have a place outside where you can keep a couple of plastic storage bins, you can grow various plankton (cyclops, daphnia, moina, moquitoes).
Indoors, grindal-worms are good for culturing (or white worms if you have a cool basement). They have a slight yeast smell, like bread dough, not unpleasant. Blackworms are another excellent live food, and dont smell (unless they die) but most people just buy these as needed rather than growing a culture. If you have a well and can provide a flow-through system, then culturing blackworms might work.

If you can, growing black worms is great to gut load them.