How often to feed F8s?

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How often to feed F8s?

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Is it ok to feed 1" F8s every 2-3 days?
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Re: How often to feed F8s?

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Every other day is good.
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Re: How often to feed F8s?

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Also, be sure to give them a very varied diet. Snails, bloodworms, shrimp, earthworms, clams, tilapia, so on. Also, you should soak their food in some vitamins like Vitachem or Zoe
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Re: How often to feed F8s?

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So far I've given them blood worms and shrimp witch I soak in vitachem for a couple of hours. I prepare all the food for my other fish by soaking in vitachem and then freeze them. For 1" f8s what else is good for them besides shrimp to help trim their "beak"?
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Re: How often to feed F8s?

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Try just feeding them the shrimp tails, with the shell on. Small mussels are good & also plankton.
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Re: How often to feed F8s?

Post by Perry the Pufferfish »

Sorry to jack the thread, but with a Fig 8 in Brackish, do you use the FW or SW vitamins?
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Re: How often to feed F8s?

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I have Boyd's vitachem that I use in my fw tank so I use the same for my f8s.
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Re: How often to feed F8s?

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1puff wrote:For 1" f8s what else is good for them besides shrimp to help trim their "beak"?
Snails! My juvenile F8's diet is primarily ramshorns.
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