With the Pumpkinseeds that I keep and trade or sell I feed differently. I
feed all of my fish the same OSI Cichlid Flake food every day. Then the
darters get live black worms every other day. Then I feed the big
Pumpkinseeds earthworms. They seem to all get along fine even without a
special diet for each fish. They just really love the Cichlid Flake. I even
have a pregnant Pumpkinseed now. I will not sell her until she drops the
eggs. I don't think that any of the males are old enough at 2.5" - 3" to
fertilize the eggs.
I do like your style of feeding and how each fish has it's own little
dinner. I don't do that because it puts a big hole in my wallet if you know
what I mean.
Thanks,
Henry Deford
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu_at_wctc.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Wisconsin
> I would like to add to be successful with sunfish, you need some patience.
> The best thing to do is to catch as small as fish as possible, set them up
> in a large tank with as many ( maybe more) fish than you initially plan on
> ending up with. Usually this will elevate any serious aggressiveness.
Just
> like people fish have their own personalities, and some are more
aggressive
> than others. If these show up as the fish grow they can be "weeded" out,
> hence the need for extra fish to start with. I have had luck doing this
and
> have had successful spawns in community sunfish set ups in 75 gallon
> aquariums. Feeding a variety of foods also helps. Start out the feeding
> regimen with cheap large foods that will fill up aggressive eaters first,
> then feed some more prime foods to the more timid fish. For example I
have
> a set up with a trio of dollar sunfish, a pair of red warmouth and a pair
of
> orange spotted sunfish. The warmouth are pigs, and the dollars are all
> aggressive, and the orange spots are much more timid. I feed large fish
> chow pellets first to fatten up the warmouth, then feed shrimp pellets to
> the dollars and male orange spot, then some discus pellets for the female
> orange spot and female dollars. It is important to make sure all the fish
> get good full bellies at feeding time, this will also help with
> jealous/aggressive fish that didn't get enough to eat, and bulk up the
timid
> ones so they have energy to put up with their hyper tank mates. On a live
> food regimen, I feed small minnows to the warmouth, then big worms to the
> dollars, and then smaller worms or scuds to the orange spots.
> Ray
>
>
>
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