Peacock Gudgeon Feeding- Live, Frozen or Dried?

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BioHazard

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Okay, I keep hearing different things about Peacock Gudgeons. Some sites say they only take live food. Some say they will take frozen. Others say they will take freeze dried or flakes.
So, for anyone has owns or has owned PGs, what will yours take?
I'm a newbie, so I don't want to get a fish that needs live food or frozen food just yet. I would love a pair of PGs though.
 
I don't keep them but with fish like those you need to be willing to at least feed frozen foods. Even if you luck out and they accept flakes, they will not do well without a meatier diet.
I've never had much luck with freeze dried foods with any of my carnivorous fish.
 
I've never fed gudgeons of any sort anything but a mix of freeze-dried bloodworms, live bloodworms, and small guppies for the bigger species. Most will grudgingly accept flakes but their colors come out best with a healthy diet of live food, from my experience.
 
I think I could do the freeze dried foods and frozen foods, but where does one get live foods?
 
It really depends where you got your Peacock Gudgeons from. Thankfully, I got mine from an LFS where the Peacocks accepted flakes. I was pretty lucky. You need to supplement them with live food though. I feed mine grindal worms that i culture.
 
biomajorstudent said:
I think I could do the freeze dried foods and frozen foods, but where does one get live foods?
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If all you have nearby is chain stores then you might have some trouble finding live food. If you absolutely can't get to a store or don't want to order live worms, frozen bloodworms are better than freeze-dried and any chain store should have a freezer full.

In the meantime, chopped up earthworm or tiny earthworms (rinse first either way) will probably drive them wild. Earthworms are usually free of disease and bacteria and make a great fish food if you don't mind taking the time to get them.

These fish are beautiful no matter what, so if you get them to eat flakes it shouldn't tarnish their overall health and appearance, but you can only take my word for it that if you like how they look on flakes than you will love how they look on live food. It seems impossible, but they can become even more radiant!

I've been a gudgeon and freshwater goby keeper for years. I love em' all.
 
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I dont think any local stores offer live food, but I'd be willing to order some. I've seen some on ebay. I've seen a bunch of kinds, though. What would be best? My Petco does have flightless fruit flies. What about vinegar eels? Brine shrimp? Grindal worms? Daphnia? Rotifers? Any sugegstions would be great.
 
Vingegar eels, microworms, grindal worms... All culturable. Look on aquabid, I got a culture of banana worms, microworms, and walter worms +6 pipettes for 6$.

I've read you have to feed scarlet badis live. Mine have never tasted live, and I haven't seen them take in anything frozen, but they're fat, colourful and spunky.
 
Well, mine seem to go just as crazy for flakes as my guppies LOL. I was all prepared for them to be picky, got a nice big order from kens will all kinds of freeze dried goodies, but they wend nuts for flakes. I also give them frozen bloodworms, freeze dried daphnia, and such though :) Where are you looking to get them? Good luck, they are lovely fish!
 
AquaGem said:
Well, mine seem to go just as crazy for flakes as my guppies LOL. I was all prepared for them to be picky, got a nice big order from kens will all kinds of freeze dried goodies, but they wend nuts for flakes. I also give them frozen bloodworms, freeze dried daphnia, and such though :) Where are you looking to get them? Good luck, they are lovely fish!
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I am hoping my lfs can get them, he had mentioned that he saw them on his order list once.
 
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