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Re: Feeding
I feed mine an assortment of flakes, live daphnia during the summer,
mosquito larvae during the winter. THe odd shrimp pellet will also be fed.
>From: Frauley/Elson <fraulels@minet.ca>
>Reply-To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: Re: Feeding
>Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:05:16 -0400
>
>Christopher R Brightwell wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering what people are feeding their apistos. I have a group
>of
> > eight in a heavily planted 75 and they don't seem interested in brine
> > shrimp at all.
> > TIA
> > Chris
>
>I feed mine frozen bloodworms as a staple, supplemented by live
>whiteworms, very occasional chopped earthworms or ant larvae and a fair
>bit of good old-fashioned flake (staple, plankton flake and brine shrimp
>flake in rotation).
>Freshly freeswimming fry get some live bbs, lots of decapsulated and
>some crushed flake. Since I shifted to 'decap.' in the mornings, growth
>rates haven't slowed, and I've brought njisseni, taeniata, sp rotpunkt,
>macmasteri and sp vielfleck to young adulthood in fair numbers.
>-Gary
>
>
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