Floating foods for bigger fish?

[Paul_MTS]

I'm after suggestions for other foods to feed my gar and arowana.

at the moment they will both take meal worm, super worms and crickets, the gar also takes jumbo blood worm that float.

The lance fish I get sink straight away after defrosting. The gar has taking worms from twizzers before but often derupted by appolo sharks and my aro want take food from me yet.

any suggestions welcome...oh and they wont take cichlid gold pellets.

 

[CFC]

I sometimes feed my arrowana Hikari floating carnivor sticks but i'm not really a fan of pellet foods as they seem to cause problems with water quality when used often. Stick with the crickets and mealworms and in time they will start to feed more aggressively taking food as it sinks rather than waiting for it to float past their noses.

 

[Paul_MTS]

I can't get hold of them I put them on the order and it turned out they were the sinking ones!

When I first attempted pellet no one ate it and then had to fish it all out the next day when it had gone mouldy which wasn't a nice job. I haven't fed processed food in tat tank for a while now.

By the way if your LFS can get big bags of lance fish in rather than the small blister packs there alot better and fresher I'ved found.

There froozen individually rather than in 1 slab, there all complete, They seem very meaty and wholesome!! Rather than being a weedy bit of flesh.

 

[technium]

Not sure if this helps but my Florida Gar gets hand fed prawns. I have to wait until others have eaten and then hold it in the water and he drifts over and eventually snaps it out my fingers.

 

[Paul_MTS]

I'ved tried froozen prawns that you get in blister packs but no one ate them, I'ved just chucked the rest of the pack away!!

I think i'l have to pop over to the super market and get some nice sized ones.

It's funny how the gars creep up to everything gradually opening there mouths then....SNAP!!

 

[technium]

lol yeah, scary sometimes.

Ive always brought from the supermarket as they seem to be alot fresher.

good luck and watch your fingertips

 

[CFC]

I buy the bulk of my frozen fish food from the fishmongers, it works out cheaper and is a lot better quallity as it is intended for human consumption. I pay £3.25 for a 500gram pack of frozen whitebait (sprats), £4.50 for 500grams of frozen mussels and £4 for 500grams of frozen cockles. The only frozen food i get from the LFS is bloodworm, krill and whole uncooked shrimp.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Once my fish are bigger i reakon i'll go to the fish monger (my mum will, can't stand the smell of raw fish!!) until then it's lance fish, bloodworm, forrzen chopped mussel, discus mix and daphia.

 

[SirMinion]

If you're concerned about mealworms & crickets not having all the required nutrients, you can give the bugs 'gut-loading' vitamin food that's sold for reptiles.

 

[Paul_MTS]

I feed them on bug grub that i got from one of the online sellers i listed.

I wasn't so bothered about nutrients more so variety.

My gar took a complete lance fish from my hand a few minutes ago, was so funny this quite small fish taking down a 2 inch lance fish He took it down very fast compared to super worms though which usually get snatched from his mouth by the aro.