Dry Food For Archerfish

[maurizio]

Anybody has experience/suggestions on dry food for archer fish to be used in automatic feeders?

Sticks didn't really work, nor dried shrimp...

Thanks!

 

[fishguy2727]

IME the best pellet to get picky top feeders on prepared foods is Hikari's Food Sticks. New Life Spectrum is by far the best food out here right, but you will probably need to get it on the Food Sticks before it will take the NLS.

If you have tried the Hikari Food Sticks already you may just need to get it more hungry. Fish can go a lot longer without food than we give them credit for, so a couple days may not be near enough to get them hungry enough to try new foods.

 

[maurizio]

Thanks Fishguy,
yesterday I got a mix of shrimp and crustaceans for turtles suggested by a shopkeeper, promising I'd get the money back if it doesn't work. They're clearly not crazy about it, but they do eat it on the long run, when nothing else is given. So for this time I'll keep going with this. Next time I'll try to get something more palatable, possibly Ikari. I see also Sera has dried food for carnivores.

At the moment the only thing they really love is frozen bloodworms, which is just devoured in a matter of seconds. Daphnie don't make them particularly happy, and lots of them are eventually missed, polluting the water.

Any other fresh/dried food anyone would recommend with these fishes based on direct experience? I'd love to give them a varied diet. Obviously, ASAP I'll treat them with live insects when possible.

 

[jonny5]

Thanks Fishguy,
yesterday I got a mix of shrimp and crustaceans for turtles suggested by a shopkeeper, promising I'd get the money back if it doesn't work. They're clearly not crazy about it, but they do eat it on the long run, when nothing else is given. So for this time I'll keep going with this. Next time I'll try to get something more palatable, possibly Ikari. I see also Sera has dried food for carnivores.

At the moment the only thing they really love is frozen bloodworms, which is just devoured in a matter of seconds. Daphnie don't make them particularly happy, and lots of them are eventually missed, polluting the water.

Any other fresh/dried food anyone would recommend with these fishes based on direct experience? I'd love to give them a varied diet. Obviously, ASAP I'll treat them with live insects when possible.

sorry to here, mine eat just about everything but blood worms are a favorite of thiers. for flaks i have tetra min crips they eat, they also eat omega one super color flakes. But the dry food they seem to enjoy the most are hikari cichlid gold floating type (get the mini pellets size) or my New Life Products spectrum thera sinking pellets.

Those two pellets they seem to go after harder. I would not feed them daphnia, for daphnia are a little small and might not get there attention. They are top feeders so try to get those floating pellets.

As i treat i sometimes buy ghost shrimp or crickets, they will eat thos eup quick. However they only go for things on top of water column, if my ghost shrimp stay on the bottom then the archers dont even see or look for them

 

[maurizio]

Well, I just have them since about two weeks, and started feeding them with frozen bloodworms, so they might have gotten spoiled.

Actually, I feed them one cube of worms for the three of them, and they spend the rest of the day scavenging the bottom for the last worms! So perhaps I'm underfeeding them? I don't want to modify their natural behaviour, but mines are really spending quite some time at low level looking for the last leftovers. What do you think?

For now (I'm going on vacation next sat) I'll keep going with these dried shrimp & crustaceans, and next time will go for your suggestions, guys.

 

[maurizio]

Nope,
I tried Ikari Cichlid Gold (they'd rather starve than eat that: I gave them this for 2 days in a row, after one day with no food at all), and Tetra Cichlis Sticks ( abit better, after breaking the sticks in smaller pieces, but again, they prefer to skip it).

I see Sera has a series (FD) of dried meaty foods, bloodworms only, or even a mix of them. Anybody tried this with archers?