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dynasty187
12-09-2007, 6:19 PM
I'm looking for more variety of foods to feed my black calvus, I feed them New Life Spectrum but they arent crazy about it. I would like to try live foods like brine shrimp or something else? I also got guppys so that the calvus could eat the fry.
Frozen shrimps, bloodworms, daphnia, brine shrimp and earthworms will do.
dynasty187
12-09-2007, 6:57 PM
ok thanks, I'm new to these kinds of foods... Is the frozen brine shrimp and what not live?
ok thanks, I'm new to these kinds of foods... Is the frozen brine shrimp and what not live?
Frozen.:) Vary the diet and don't stick too much on one food only. There isn't enough vitamins from consuming only one food.
dynasty187
12-09-2007, 7:11 PM
Yea I'm trying to mix it up as much as possible. I had the calvus in my mixed african cichlid tank and I think they might be missing all the mbuna fry.
kay-bee
12-09-2007, 9:17 PM
Is the calvus still with the other cichlids or in its own tank. If with others, what type are they? Some foods which the calvus would thrive on (mysis shrimp, etc) might not be best for other cichlids in the tank if they're predominantly herbivorous.
dynasty187
12-10-2007, 2:57 PM
They use to be in my 55 gallon with mbuna and peacocks, where they were fed spectrum, tubifex cubes, peas, lettuce and zuchinni. The calvus mainly ate the spectrum and tubifex plus I'm thinking alot of mbuna fry.
Now they're in a 25 gallon with guppys and since they dont have the larger cichlids around they've gotten kinda lazy, it's why I'm considering live foods in hopes it will get their attention more.
nmrsco
12-10-2007, 3:32 PM
mosquito larvae are my alltime favorite fish food. collect them in small bodies of water outside (you can just use a bucket) unfortunately, you cant collect them in the winter. my second favorite live food are blackworms, which you can usually buy fairly cheaply at most lfs's I dont know a calvus' exact dietary needs, so you should do some research. I dont like brine shrimp too much because they are apparently low in nutritional value and you get much less for your money than with blackworms in my experience
reptileguy2727
12-10-2007, 5:12 PM
If you put all the vital vitamins and other nutrients in one pellet, you have a complete food and therefore do not need variety. NLS does this. I only feed NLS to all my fish. I personally would not give them anythign else because it is unnescessary. If you have any doubts read through the nutrition article on their site, then the testimonials, then the artciles from magazines.