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if you are feeding him/her guppies it's not that bad but i still think it's better to try to feed him dry foodWhy me said:View attachment 432896 Yeah. Thanks I quarantine feeder guppies for my rocket gar. I don’t know what’ll I do if he dies
Why do you think dry food is healthier than live food? Fish eat live food in their natural habitats and live as long as the conditions allow. Have you looked at the ingredients that actually go into dry foods? Some of the ingredients are crude fat, crude protein and crude fiber. You also have preservatives and other not so healthy ingredients that go into the dry food.The Lonely King said:if you are feeding him/her guppies it's not that bad but i still think it's better to try to feed him dry food
in nature it's not easy for a predator to hunt fish sometimes they spend a week finding for food but when the fish is in your tank it's so easy for him to catch the fish.UnderwaterGalaxy said:Why do you think dry food is healthier than live food? Fish eat live food in their natural habitats and live as long as the conditions allow. Have you looked at the ingredients that actually go into dry foods? Some of the ingredients are crude fat, crude protein and crude fiber. You also have preservatives and other not so healthy ingredients that go into the dry food.
I used to feed my Columbian shark (catfish) live, frozen fish and some pellets once in a while. He lived for over 16 years. In captivity this fish lives up to 15 years. I think dry food alone would not have kept him alive as long.
No, it is not if you are talking about Xenentodon cancila. This species is so purely piscivorous that even the newborn fry prefer baby fish to eat. The first person that I know of to successfully raise fry was Jim Langhammer, former curator of the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit, and one of the most prolific breeders of unusual fish that I am aware of. He used hundreds of newly hatched Paradise fish and other fry to raise about 15 of these to a size where they could eat adult Guppies. I have seen claims of raising them on baby brine shrimp, but Langhammer had tried this and the young gars all died of starvation, so I find these claims somewhat dubious.Why me said:Is it possible to feed a Asian needle nose gar pellets