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Try some frozen baby brine shrimp.
Been trying micropellets, flakes, freezedried cyclops, freezedried tubifex to no avail.... help!
Try some frozen baby brine shrimp.
Eric
Frozen= freezedried?Originally Posted by Ibn
Never create what you can't control
Dario dario will take live food only in my experience. They may take frozen food as well but they don't seem to have a liking for it long enough. I have so far not heard of any that will take dried food.
I feed my briggittae, merah, macurata, blue axerodi , cardinal , bleeding heart, rummy nose, rosboras espei with "GloRed" color enhancer (micro pellet) by Aquari from C328 for $4.90 for a 145g . It is quite a lot .
All of them love it !
The juggling apprentice fish
As much as a lot of people don't like it, feeding live tubifex is the best way for shy fish to start eating.
You can also live brine shrimp and bloodworms.
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Dario will eat only live foods. Only a few will take dried foods like sinking tablets and only in the presence of other fish that will feed on it.
Your only bet for feeding these small guys is to utilise live tubifex, baby brine shrimp and daphnia. The Boraras will go for sinking flake or tablets. Basically anything that appears in the water column, they'll try to eat it. I feed my fishes a diet of Sera Viformo and live tubifex. They're very happy so far.
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Back to Killies... slowly.
Frozen = frozen food, not freeze dried.
Another source of food which you can try is frozen cyclops. They called Cyclopeeze.
Eric
Tried putting some live tubifex worms in a feeder for the tank with dario and brigittae......guess wat..... the biggest customers are my shrimps!!! the shrimps are hoarding around the feeder like bees to honey!
Sat down there for 20 mins or so.... only see dario pick at one or 2 of those worms that got loose from the feeder and floated down to the gravels.... otherwise i dun see any feeding frenzy...given that they have not been taking any of my dried food the last 2-3days......
The briggittae also quite fussy..... dun really see them chasing after the worms that floated their way.......
Dun really know wats the problem......
shucks....... I really like dario.... but with such fussy eating habit, i may have to give them up soon as it is quite taxing to get them their live tubifex every few days.....and to think i was trying to put a couple of them into my new 6 footer.......at that rate...... prob see them starve to death one by one.....
The juggling apprentice fish
Well, at least they start feeding! The darios I used to have eat them like there's no tomorrow!... Their bellies always fat fat... What are the other inhabitants in the tank? How big is the tank? Sometimes, the general environment can also affect the fish's feeding behaviour...
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I'm crypt collecting... Starting cheap, now have Cryptocoryne beckettii, C.beckettii var petchii, C.crispatula var.balansae, C.griffithii(Melted!
Oh, juggling is hard work, man!...
my tank is a 1ft cube with dw leaking tanin like no bodies' business (even after 4-5 hrs of boiling and reboiling! Some spiky moss on wire mesh in the foreground and windelov/java moss tied to dw.......
fauna: 10X brigittae, 4X darios, 6X?malayan shrimp?, 1X hillstream loach, 1X dwarf cory, 1X oto.
You feed those fine granular food to the Brigittae. I am using Sera Microgran.
You might want to try those frozen fish food for your darios as mentioned. These are food that you store in your freezer, not the freeze dried stuff.
BC
hmm so i approach the auntie at c368 and ask her for "frozen cyclops"?
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