Feeding Your L Numbers
#1
Posted 04 May 2012 - 10:29 PM
Heres what Ive experienced with what Ive got and tried in order of the fishes preferance:
L397s (2-10cm)- Mainly a wood eater but my adults get a Hikari Algea wafer or 2 between 6 adults every night and seem to love them, Zuchinni, Sera flora and occasionally Sera Viformo and pumpkin. My 397 fry eat mainly zuchinni, sera flora and occasionally pumpkin and broken up Hikari wafers.
L333 and L134s (3-6cm)-Viformo, frozen brine shrimp, zuchinni, frozen bloodworms, Sera flora and Hikaria wafers.
L201s (3cm)- So far Ive only managed to get these guys to eat Viformo and zuchinni.
A mixed diet is best for these fish so anyone else with ideas? Id be keen to here them.
#2
Posted 04 May 2012 - 11:25 PM
#3
Posted 05 May 2012 - 01:29 AM
#4
Posted 06 May 2012 - 07:45 AM
#5
Posted 06 May 2012 - 07:45 AM
I remember trying the broccoli stalk quite a while ago for the 397s and they didnt seem to like it much, Ill have to try it again.
With the baby brine shrimp has anyone tried the "Instant baby brine" from Ocean nutrition. I had a look at it on youtube and it looks the goods.
Age of Aquariums sell it, I might grab some in my next order.
Also when using frozen baby brine, are you supposed to thaw and rinse before use ( like with bloodworms ) or do you just add the frozen block and let it thaw in the tank?
#6
Posted 06 May 2012 - 12:09 PM
I've even started getting the brine shrimp that have been fed on spirulina , everything seems to love the hell out of it
Edited by Hypanheaven, 06 May 2012 - 12:10 PM.
#7
Posted 07 May 2012 - 02:15 PM
#8
Posted 07 May 2012 - 05:55 PM
I've even started getting the brine shrimp that have been fed on spirulina , everything seems to love the hell out of it
Sweet thats what Ive been doing, just wondered if it was recommended to rinse off first.
Cool I might give some shrimp pellets a try, Which ones are do you recommend?
#9
Posted 12 May 2012 - 07:26 AM
#10
Posted 12 May 2012 - 08:10 AM
#11
Posted 12 May 2012 - 07:19 PM
#12
Posted 15 May 2012 - 06:03 AM
For our fry of Zeb, Pepp and L201's they are all fed a mix of newly hatched brine shrimp(we hatch our own) and tetrabits, the brine shrimp live for about 6 hours once dropped into the fry tank which means the fry are getting a high value food(protein) that wont foul the tank (bare bottom tank).
Adults of these are fed frozen blood worm, tetrabits and a bit of flake food once a week, the day after flake food they get one day no food, they wouldnt get food all day everyday in the wild, they also get a fed of live black worm, excluding the pepps, this lives in the tank for months or until they eat it all, so l only put it in once every 3 months.
l cant get zeb or L201 to eat veg at all, l remember when l commercially produced BN's 20+ years ago, pumpkin was a big hit, with adult and fry and gave a great colour to the fry, making it easy to sell them, presentation is everything
The pumpkin was boiled first and sinks well, unlike Zucchini that floats, so if you use Zucchini you will need to weight it down
Edited by Just Boots n all, 15 May 2012 - 06:05 AM.
#13
Posted 16 May 2012 - 09:18 PM
For our fry of Zeb, Pepp and L201's they are all fed a mix of newly hatched brine shrimp(we hatch our own) and tetrabits, the brine shrimp live for about 6 hours once dropped into the fry tank which means the fry are getting a high value food(protein) that wont foul the tank (bare bottom tank).
Adults of these are fed frozen blood worm, tetrabits and a bit of flake food once a week, the day after flake food they get one day no food, they wouldnt get food all day everyday in the wild, they also get a fed of live black worm, excluding the pepps, this lives in the tank for months or until they eat it all, so l only put it in once every 3 months.
l cant get zeb or L201 to eat veg at all, l remember when l commercially produced BN's 20+ years ago, pumpkin was a big hit, with adult and fry and gave a great colour to the fry, making it easy to sell them, presentation is everything
The pumpkin was boiled first and sinks well, unlike Zucchini that floats, so if you use Zucchini you will need to weight it down
Cheers for the info boots, my 201s seem to be enjoying zucchini skin at the moment.
There's a couple of things for me to try next-
Live baby brine and tetrabits. Cheers.
#14
Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:39 AM
Are tetra colour bits the same thing?
#15
Posted 22 May 2012 - 02:22 PM
#16
Posted 23 October 2012 - 06:53 PM
#17
Posted 12 January 2013 - 08:02 AM
It seems my fish do not like it anywhere near as much as the zuch.
397s like it although they usually eat the skin first on zuch, on the cucumber the skin has been left untouched.
#18
Posted 12 January 2013 - 11:27 PM
#19
Posted 18 January 2013 - 02:30 PM
#20
Posted 18 January 2013 - 02:35 PM
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