Good Foods/Sick fish

[Cathy G]

Hi,

I wasn't sure where to put this question, my male ram has been sick for a long time now - I wrote Ram Issues in the disease forum. Anyway, he is on Maracyn II now and yesterday began eating again. However, he only seems to be eating bloodworms. I gave him a couple of live ones yesterday hoping the wiggling would spurn him to eat. They did, and tonight he ate a little bit of frozen ones.

I think I understand that bloodworms are the fatty/fast food of the fish world? Do I also understand that feeding live blood worms presents another whole set of potential problems for fish health? His normal diet includes the New Life cichlid pellets, but he won't touch them now.

Is there another food you would recommend during this treatment time? Or when/if he recovers to build up health and strength?

Thanks ahead of time,
Cathy G

 

[tjd]

Cathy,

I would try feeding some Daphnia, frozen is fine if he will eat it. Daphnia is a great food for sick dwarf cichlids. Aside from that, you could try some BBS or cyclops.

Also, my rams prefer flakes over the new life pellets.

Good luck, Tom

 

[Apistt_ed]

I agree that baby brine shrimp would be best for all of your fishes. The problems with feeding live blood worms/blackworms is that those purchased from unreliable sources do present your tank with diseases and could do great damage to your established tanks. I've seen it before and it's a shame when it happens. If you could get daphnia, it's also a great food source. john