55 gallon fresh water tank

[crazy42bmx]

If ur looking to get rid of ur tangs let me know.

[Johnsbra123]

Is selling a frontosa(4-5"), 2 calvus(3-4"), BN Pleco, 2 leleupi(3-5"), branchardi(3"), yellow lab(3") and a candy stripe goby for 100$ a good deal or too much? What's the highest I can get?

[crazy42bmx]

Not interested in all fish jusr a few. Make a buy / thread

[Johnsbra123]

What do peacock bass eat? Mistahoo?

[mistahoo]

Generally live foods because they're piscavores by nature. You can however train them to eat any type of fish food. Floating pellets shaped like sticks are the easiest to train them to eat, because it's somewhat shaped like a fish and it's much softer than most sinking pellets. I starve my fish to get them to eat what I want them to eat. Generally it takes anywhere from a few days to months (mainly because I always lose the battle of wills and cave in to get them some live feeders to ensure their survival). However, I'd advise you to steer clear of any feeder fish from any LFS. They're parasite and disease ridden and that can transfer over to your fish especially if you're starving them (their immune system would generally be weak).

[Johnsbra123]

Where can you get live fish that are okay for them to eat?

[mistahoo]

From other people who you know are raising fish that aren't sickly. Breeder culls are great too! Find yourself someone who breeds a lot of fish and cull for quality and take their culls to feed when needed. There's also the option of raising your own fish to feed.

[Johnsbra123]

Thanks! I might try to find someone. How did you feed your bass?

[mistahoo]

Weekly feeding schedule (when I did remember to do so):

15x Hikari Massivore / 1x Tilapia fillet / 10x medium-large shrimp
Fast
30x Hikari Jumbo Carnisticks
Fast
2x Tilapia fillet / 15x medium large shrimp
Fast
15x Hikari Massivore / 15x Hikari Jumbo Carnisticks

Rinse and repeat. All of the frozen foods were soaked in crushed NLS. My fish had good food. None of that cheap filler crap. Very expensive though. Very important to give them time to digest the food. They're big fish and a huge appetite, but if you keep feeding without some time to digest, they will eventually develop problems. I gave about 3-4 days because I fed them a lot. You can give them a day to fast if you feed them less (they will seem to have a sunken stomach if you do).

[mistahoo]

They don't take to frozen foods at first either. It takes a while, but they'll eat the frozen stuff before they even touch the pellets. They'll try it out and eventually spit it out.

[mistahoo]

I got my largemouth bass to take pellets. What I did was starve it for a week. Toss in some thawed frozen food (shrimp, fish fillets, etc). Let him try it and if he spits it out, I take it out of the tank. Try again after a few days. Continue to do so until it accepts the food. After it accepts the frozen foods, I feed only frozen. Then when it's healthy again, I do the same routine, but with pellets. Hasn't failed me yet. There's always mixed results with this method though. Some fish just don't give in and eventually die from starvation.

[Johnsbra123]

Is there a frozen fish I can buy to feed them or a good place to buy live fish?

[mistahoo]

Tilapia is a frozen fish that's common in almost all grocery stores. You could go to the Asian supermarkets and buy the little frozen fish in packages.

[Johnsbra123]

Okay, so tilapia is good. Where can I get feeders? I know from people here but is there any store you trust? If not any guy here that does sell them?

[mistahoo]

Re: 55 gallon fresh water tank

Most people don't raise feeders. It's pointless. You can however breed livebearers and feed them. Make sure you gut load them before feeding

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