Re: poor diet?

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

Simone,

I also feel that diet is very important, especially variety. Here is what I feed
my fish: marine flake food, pellets (Tetra's old Discus pellet, now with a new
name), frozen adult brine shrimp, frozen blood worms (rarely since my allergies
to it put me out of commission for a whole day after feeding it), and live baby
brine shrimp. I used to feed a wonderful food that we called "frog brittle". It
was a granular food similar to Tetra's discus food. It was designed for feeding
Xenopus (African Clawed) Frogs in laboratory experiments. It has a high
protein/fat diet needed by frogs. Overfeeding this food caused cloudy water, so I
had to be careful, but all my apistos and other fish just loved it. It was cheap,
too, about $50/bag. Unfortunately, it only comes in 50 lb. bags and my source is
out of  frog keeping research. I don't have a way of getting 1 lb. bags from her
anymore. Anyone out there know where I can get small quantities of this for a
reasonable price?

Mike Wise

Simone Vicini wrote:

> Dear apisto lovers,
>                            I'm at the second succesful spawn of my wild
> nijsseni pair, I always use pure RO water for water changes and I also have
> plants in the tank, since they grow quite well I'm almost sure that the RO
> water I put in has some mineral contents.
>
> I actually don't know if fishes take mineral nutrients directly from the
> water and in wich quantity, so I'm not sure if my question will be
> plausible.
>
> I'm starting to see that my nijsseni are having problems with their fins,
> they are getting transaparent and thiner, this is probably due to the fact
> that I have never looked at my fishes as today, but the doubt remains.
>
> Their diet is based on blood worms and BS (both frozen). That's all, I
> don't feed my fishes on anything else. Could this lead to a some kind of
> nutrients deficiency in fishes? and if possible, can this be the reason why
> I saw this abnormality in the fins of my fishes?
>
> I was thinkng that probably my plants (Hygrophyla, Java moss,
> Ceratophyllum) are sucking up all the calcium and other elements living to
> the fishes a too little quantity, Is this possible or am I just dreaming?
>
> Should I add calcium carbonate and magnesium sulfate to the tank?
>
> Should I change the diet of my fishes?
>
> Thanks for your help
> Simone Vicini (svicini@lcnet.it)
>
> PS From Italy where keeping P.ramirezi has become quite impossible due to
> the fact that this species has become more and more susceptible to illness
> and more and more delicate
>
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