Re: NANFA-- Flake food for fussy fish

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Sun, 8 Apr 2001 10:37:05 -0400

Pierre, I don't think you could starve the blackbandeds long enough to get
them to eat flake food.
----- Original Message -----
From: <PGagne2000_at_aol.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Flake food for fussy fish

> I have found a way to indirectly feed my black-banded sunfish flake
food.
>
> I bought a bag of guppies at a recent club auction for one dollar,
about
> twentyfive fish of different sizes. I knew the seller, so trusted their
> health, and didn't quarantine them. For lack of a better place, into the
> tank of Enneacanthus chaetodon they went.
> The 30 gal. sunfish tank is densely planted with hornwort and
> vallisneria. It is unheated, but rarely drops below 65 degrees. The 15
> sunfish will not eat flake (perhaps I have to starve them longer that I am
> willing to). They are small, about 1 and 3/4" long, wild-caught in
October.
> I expect they would be bigger if I could feed them more than once a day.
> After seeing a couple of guppy fry the next day, I figured I would
soon
> have more of them than I would know what to do with. Three days later, no
> fry could be found, in spite of the heavy plant cover they had. Also, the
> smallest of the new guppies were missing. I was thrilled to realize that
I
> now had an additional food source for the sunfish that was fresh, served
> intermittently 24 hours a day, and cost almost nothing!
> I realize that this may be an old idea to many of you, but I had never
> heard of it and would recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind mixing
> disposable livebearers in with their native fish. I suppose in another
year
> the adult guppies will be dying out and I'll have to buy another bag :-).
> Pierre Gagne
> Kensington, MD
>
>
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