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RE: Feeding
I stopped feeding Bloodworms.IMHO they are hard to digest for DC's.I lost
some juvenile Apistos and especialy some Dicrossus species, by feeding
Bloodworms.
The symptoms where always the same:The bellies started to get swollen,loss
of appetite,fish stayed on the bottom.The last victim was a D.filamentosus
after my wife accidentally fed bloodworms,that proved my suspicion.I could
be wrong,but I have not lost a fish since I stopped feeding Bloodworms.
I use frozen daphnia as a staple,occasional BBS,decapsuled BBS,Spirulina and
Omega three enriched BS,white mosquito larvae and Flakes.I also have some
Cyclop -eeze which I will try on my next batch of fry.
I just started an experimental colony of red wigglers but haven't fed them
to my fish yet.
I'm going to wait till they multiply enough to keep the colony going.
Max
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com
> [mailto:owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com]On Behalf Of Frauley/Elson
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:05 AM
> To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
> Subject: Re: Feeding
>
>
> 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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