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 Safe feeders??? |
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| Norbert |
 Feb 16 2010, 09:41 PM
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it's all in the reflexes
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I don't have any fish currently that require feeders, most fish are easy to get off them (besides...I feel sorry for those cute little goldfish  ) But for the sake of discussion...what could be done to make feeder goldfish "safe" to feed in moderation? (strictly from a disease stand point...not the growth inhibiting thing they have)
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| Norbert |
Feb 17 2010, 08:01 PM
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it's all in the reflexes
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QUOTE(fishing4exotics @ Feb 17 2010, 09:08 AM) 
A friend of mine injects vitamins before feeding.
Whoa, that sounds like alot of work...he injects each little feeder?
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| fishing4exotics |
Feb 17 2010, 08:48 PM
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GRRRR.....It's cold!
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QUOTE(Norbert @ Feb 17 2010, 05:01 PM) QUOTE(fishing4exotics @ Feb 17 2010, 09:08 AM)
A friend of mine injects vitamins before feeding.
Whoa, that sounds like alot of work...he injects each little feeder? The jumbo size feeders for his special pets about once a week. |
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| H . |
Feb 17 2010, 08:50 PM
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Newbie
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QUOTE(fishing4exotics @ Feb 17 2010, 08:48 PM) QUOTE(Norbert @ Feb 17 2010, 05:01 PM) QUOTE(fishing4exotics @ Feb 17 2010, 09:08 AM)
A friend of mine injects vitamins before feeding.
Whoa, that sounds like alot of work...he injects each little feeder? The jumbo size feeders for his special pets about once a week. My friend does it as well...
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| GaryHart |
Apr 27 2010, 04:35 PM
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QUOTE(myles @ Mar 8 2010, 12:43 AM)
jsut get another tank and breed somthing like convict cichlids. nutrition wise there better then goldfish and then u kno there desease free and kidna fun to raidse at the same time. they breed like crazy.
I like this idea. |
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| Aquanero* |
Apr 29 2010, 10:19 AM
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I don't understand why people would go through the time, trouble & expense of feeders when todays food has all the nutrition needed with no risk. Foods like NLS, Omega One, Hakari are all first class foods you could also supplement with earthworms, meal worms, Krill, market shrimp, frozen silversides & crikets to name some. Injecting feeders with vitamins is a major inconveniance and totaly unnessary. Having said all that if you absolutly must use feeders breed your own & Convicts are the way to go you'll have an endless supply of feeders. Set the parents up in one tank while growing out the fry in another, this way while one batch is being raised in one tank the parents can have another batch with them and endless assembly line of Convict fry.
TOM
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| 6floord |
May 5 2010, 01:05 AM
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QUOTE(Aquanero* @ Apr 29 2010, 08:19 AM)
I don't understand why people would go through the time, trouble & expense of feeders when todays food has all the nutrition needed with no risk. Foods like NLS, Omega One, Hakari are all first class foods you could also supplement with earthworms, meal worms, Krill, market shrimp, frozen silversides & crikets to name some. Injecting feeders with vitamins is a major inconveniance and totaly unnessary. Having said all that if you absolutly must use feeders breed your own & Convicts are the way to go you'll have an endless supply of feeders. Set the parents up in one tank while growing out the fry in another, this way while one batch is being raised in one tank the parents can have another batch with them and endless assembly line of Convict fry.
Trouble and inconvenient for some and fun for others. The fish tends to be more hardy after injecting feeders. Growth rate phenomenal. BTW all feeders are treated, quarantined before feeding. We're talking about feeding injected feeders to picky eaters, that won't eat anything else. All the other foods are irrelevant, they just won't eat it when they're young. After a while, you can switch to the other nutritional foods. Convicts are def cleaner and cheaper, but my problem is they tend to be too fast for fish to catch them all. Next thing you know you have an overpopulated tank with convicts. They take over your tank real quick. |
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