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RE: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade
Just about the same! When do you want to get them?
Susan
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From: gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:28 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade
Susan,
You get some pretty interesting things going.
I'll take the $20 special. That should be really nice in a tank with 3 blue
Kenyis and a brown plocostamus. Before I add them, I'll need to slowly get
the pH to match what yours are used to. Mine were acclimated to pH of 7.5,
which is low for the African cichlids. That is what the woman I got them
from had them in. What is the pH of the tank yours are in?
John
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From: Susan Welenofsky
To: 'Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat'
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:21 AM
Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade
Hi John:
That's interesting about cottonseed meal. Maybe that's why my fish breed a
lot. I just got my first batch of Placidochromis "Electra" fry, I'm
guessing
around 30. The "Daffodil" brichardi's should be fine with the Kenyi. How
many should I set aside? I have plenty of them!
As a non-fish item, in keeping with my African theme, I got a pair of
giant
black millipedes. They're really cool as they eat fruits and vegetables
and
don't bite. I'm not sure how they make in the jungles of West Africa since
only exude a yellow nasty stuff which makes them taste bad or curl into a
coil. Seems to me, they'd be a nice meal for some animal. But anyway,
they're fun and I'm going to see if I can get them to breed.
Susan
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[mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of John Ruhland
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:40 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Free fish food, or trade
Matt,
I absolutely agree with you that homemade food is best for fish and
other animals including people. I'm sure there are a lot of byproducts
in fish food. I noticed cottonseed meal. That causes sterility in human
men. Since humans are genetically very similar to fish, it could not be
good for our scaley friends. I got a good recipe for homemade fish food
from Susan. I'll be trying that as soon as I have a little extra time.
In the meanwhile, I'm trying to find a food the fish like, AND that
will hopefully work in an automatic feeder, in case I need to use one
sometime.
New Life Spectrum large fish formula is a slowly sinking pellet that
fish tend to really love. It also enhances the yellows and reds,
guaranteed. I feed quite a bit of it.
Barbie
Barbie, where can I get that food?
Betty, thank you for your tips. My plectostamus's did NOT seem to like
the Wardley sinking algae tablets, so I'm currently trying the Hikari,
and will try the Tetra ones you recommend, which I ordered today.
Sandy, I'll be happy to give you the Hikari Cichlid Excel. I'll just
keep a bit, and store it in the freezer, to try for future fish I might
get. Are you going to the next GSAS meeting?
Thank you for all of your responses. That should save me quite a bit of
time and money experimenting. By the way, all of my fish seem to love
bloodworms. Regarding earthworms, do we need to worry about any
diseases if we feed worms from our yard to our fish?
John
On Feb 23, 2005, at 11:25 AM, matt kaufman wrote:
> Until you can get a legitimate guaranteed analysis on the fish food
> bag (you know, of course, that there's really not governing body that
> oversees the claptrap fish food manufacturers print on their
> packaging? There's no expiration dates, nor can you be comfortable
> with their list of ingredients), you might as well make your own food,
> it's substantially cheaper, you have more confidence in the
> ingredients, fish love it. I used to make catfood-based fish food for
> years and fed it to big cichlids.
>
> I'll leave it as an exercise in web surfing to find home-made fish
> food recipes, they've been discussed on the net for at least the past
> 17 years. I imagine Erik has some archived on the krib somewhere.
>
> Also, hopefully the fish described are in separate tanks, otherwise
> that Oscar will have a varied diet, indeed.
>
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