Those specialized home recipes are one food. NLS has their version, and many breeders have their own. You mix a whole bunch of stuff together and feed it.
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but the mix is also not processed....anything that says something-meal....well thats processed...
Cool beans! I have been pondering this subject for a while now. My discuses mainly seem to want to only eat frozen bloodworms. They spit out any types of frozen shrimp I try to feed them. They ignore any food that floats on the surface. Occasionally they will go after the “colorbits” I feed the other fish.
I really want to feed them a better variety of foods. This thread has definitely given me some insight. I will even try the NLS food!
As for live foods, well, I am not sure about that just yet. I understand the parasite concern but I also know that fish I had in the past REALLY loved to eat live food. I never had any problems with parasites but I did have a problem with live blackworms forming colonies in my substrate.
What other live foods are recommended?
Also, my fish really display their “stress bars” when they feed. I snapped this right after they ate. Is this normal?
I really want to feed them a better variety of foods. This thread has definitely given me some insight. I will even try the NLS food!
As for live foods, well, I am not sure about that just yet. I understand the parasite concern but I also know that fish I had in the past REALLY loved to eat live food. I never had any problems with parasites but I did have a problem with live blackworms forming colonies in my substrate.
What other live foods are recommended?
Also, my fish really display their “stress bars” when they feed. I snapped this right after they ate. Is this normal?
Cool beans! I have been pondering this subject for a while now. My discuses mainly seem to want to only eat frozen bloodworms. They spit out any types of frozen shrimp I try to feed them. They ignore any food that floats on the surface. Occasionally they will go after the “colorbits” I feed the other fish.
I really want to feed them a better variety of foods. This thread has definitely given me some insight. I will even try the NLS food!
As for live foods, well, I am not sure about that just yet. I understand the parasite concern but I also know that fish I had in the past REALLY loved to eat live food. I never had any problems with parasites but I did have a problem with live blackworms forming colonies in my substrate.
What other live foods are recommended?
Also, my fish really display their “stress bars” when they feed. I snapped this right after they ate. Is this normal?
Darter, nice discus..have you mixed the bloodworms with other food?
I mixed colorbits with my bloodworms to get my discus to eat them.
I also used bloodworms with flake to get my wild scalre to eat flake.
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Anything that is not still alive is processed.
Live food increases aggression, is nutritionally incomplete, and is the best way to introduce parasites and diseases. If you have not had them yet than your fish have lucked out. The prepared stuff is nutritionally better and carries no risk of parasites and diseases, so why use live.
Live food increases aggression, is nutritionally incomplete, and is the best way to introduce parasites and diseases. If you have not had them yet than your fish have lucked out. The prepared stuff is nutritionally better and carries no risk of parasites and diseases, so why use live.
reptileguy...you just dont give up do you? I think that we have have all agreed to disagree on this topic with the exception of you. Darter...live brine shrimp are about the best case for the fewest amounts of parasites...not to many parasites can live in the same super-salty H2O that brine inhabit. My discus love it, but i dont have any place locally that i can get a steady supply and breeding them to adulthood takes too much work/time for me right now
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have you heard about the prepared dog and cat food that is causing renal failure? last report was 1 in 6 die from irreparable damage caused by the food...and this was the high end food..supposedly nutritionally better.
(I'm not advocating live food.)
