Hello fish friends!!
We recently purchased a baby fahaka who is around 3" in length. We are feeding frozen mysis shrimp, daphnia, blood worms, live snails and he has a few minnows in there. I will be trying to feed him earth worms as well. What else does everyone feed their Fahaka?? He isn't picky, and I love to offer the largest variety that I can! Thanks!
Feeding my fahaka
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Re: Feeding my fahaka
I would consider mysis & daphnia a bit small for a 3" fahaka, causing more mess than necessary. Does he search the tank to get all of the food?
Better to use earthworms, bloodworms (in a cone feeder), pieces of shrimp/scallop, mussels (cracked open), krill.
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Re: Feeding my fahaka
I leave the block frozen and he take the entire block, sticks it in his "tree" and then eats the whole thing! Do the clams/muscles have to be freshwater?
- Pufferpunk
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- Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am
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- My Puffers: Filbert, the 12" T lineatus
Punkster, the 4" red T miurus
Mongo, the 4" A modestus
2 T biocellatus
C valentini
C coranata
C papuan
Also kept:
lorteti
DPs
suvattii
burrfish
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Re: Feeding my fahaka
Do NOT feed your fish frozen food. It is really bad for their digestive system. Be sure to defrost (I add vitamins in there, too) & drain off any liquid. FW foods are recommended to feed to FW fish.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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