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Re: Earthworm flakes / Flakes for Dwarfs
I use a combo of "OSI vivid color" flake, and "Tetra bits" in small
amounts daily, and about 5 pellets of "HBH South American Cichlid
Color" once a week. Once or twice a month I will add well rinsed
bloodworms, and mosquito larvae (when I collect it). Even if I don't
do the live food thing, They all eat the variety very well. I have
noticed that they love to gnaw on the larger pellets (0.1") after they
sink. Any more than a few and they won't eat all of it. Even the
larger fry will eat these. They won't touch an off brand flake! I am
going to look for the earthworm flakes next!
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It does seem to vary but they all figure it out eventually, within a
few
days or so. It is interesting to see especially wild caught apistos
have no
idea what to do with flakes.
BTW, every other day or so I crush OSI Vivid Color flakes (the one
with the
nice aggie on the label) into powder and mix in my standard food of
frozen
blood worms. This seems to work great, keep the apistos nicely colored
and
feed the tetras too.
>In a message dated 4/18/99 7:53:26 PM EST, dwingert@MNIC.net writes:
>
>> 1.) Is it generally hard to get Apistogramma to eat flake food...
even if I
>> can get
>> it to sink?
>
>It seems to vary from fish to fish on n individual basis. However,
that only
>applies to standard flakes. Earthworm flakes smell like earthworms
when they
>get wet, and apistos will quickly figure out that they are food.
>
>Bob Dixon
-Doug Brown
debrown@kodak.com
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