picky A. cacatuoides diet suggestions

[chimera999K]

Hi guys,

I am looking for some advice regarding food selection for a pair of A. cacatuoides.
I was somewhat surprised to find that my A. cacatuoides were quite picky about their dinner choices. Several types of flake food, happily consumed by all other fish in the tank, were tried and spat right out. Same reaction was observed with dried blood worms. The only thing that suited their gourmet tastes (both male and female) were frozen brime shrimp (it was the only thing I had at home).
Having no other choice, and not that I really mind getting them frozen food, I wanted to get some advice on what other types of frozen foods will be good to try.
I am also concerned with the lack of vitamin additives in frozen foods that is commonly found in flake food.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[depthc]

Im a big fan of Bio Pure frozen foods. They come in everything from daphnia, bloodworms, brineshrimp, baby brine shrimp ect. All my fish love them so just pick up some more frozen foods if you wish to go that route.

If youd like you can try to acclimate your cacatuoides to flake food by not feeding them for a day or two and see how they take flake then. If theyre hungry they wont be so picky and with time they will most likely eat it whenever offered.

 

[cootwarm]

Myself, I don't trust frozen foods because they go bad if thawed and refrozen, especially if it happens multiple times. Everytime they are transfered there is a chance of thawing, like from the packaging company to the distributor, from the distrubutor to the LFS, from the LFS to home. I don't think that you can be 100% certain that this hasn't happened. I don't think the average person handles fish food with the same concern of spoilage as people food. Especially the shippers.

Michael

 

[cdawson]

That doesn't happen, frozen pet foods are suspect to the same regulations and shipping as human food is. Just find yourself a reputable dealer. Feeding dried or freeze dried foods is WAY more hazardous than feeding any frozen foods.If this has happened before, you're dealing with a very unreliable dealer.

 

[Apistt_ed]

I'd say anything mentioned exept too much blood worms. i've had problems with bloodworms in the past. I have lost a couple of my aggies from them, I'm not too sure at the moment as it's just the aggies that seem to have problems. I have stuck to brine shrimp and daphnia and the fish seem to love it.

 

[fishgeek]

all mine quite happily eat granular commercial foods , and not flake
not sure whether it just because the slow sinking pellets get to where they eat quicker than the flake foods

mine too will eat all frozen and live foods mentioned though there staple is either tetra prima or jmc hiprotein

andrew