Bloodworm Only

[Lucylou]

One of my loaches will only eat bloodworm, frozen bloodworm. I have 2 loaches and the other one will eat any flake food that reaches the bottom, but the other one completely ignores it. It is a bit thinner than the other, but otherwise heathy. They both ignor the sinking food I got for them also.
Will my loach be ok on a bloodworm only diet?
Has anyone any suggestions on something else it might like to eat. (btw may snail problem disapeared the second day after getting my 2 Poka dot Loaches )

 

[loachman]

people have fed them blanched peas (with "skins" removed), cucumber, and snails (obviously). Watermelon I've also heard. Just be sure to take the vegetables out after a few hours.

Are the sinking pellets shrimp or algae based? Mine tend to not really like the algae ones but fight over the shrimp based ones.

Since they are wild caught, you may have trouble aclimating them to prepared foods. This can happen with other species, but I've not really heard of it with loaches who seem to eat most anything you put in front of them.

You can go to www.loaches.com for some more feeding info. They have alot of info there and can probably offer more suggestions.

This article in particular has a bunch of foods listed:
http/www.loaches.com/care/the-loach-almanac

 

[Lucylou]

[Are the sinking pellets shrimp or algae based? Mine tend to not really like the algae ones but fight over the shrimp based ones.


You can go to www.loaches.com for some more feeding info. They have alot of info there and can probably offer more suggestions.

This article in particular has a bunch of foods listed:
http/www.loaches.com/care/the-loach-almanac
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Great info thanks, will try a few different vegis now, the sinking tabs are Tetra mini tabs, its says they have 43% protein, fibre, oil etc... but my loaches just swim past, and my greedy guppies end up finding them, and eating them.
I think i've got some cabbage in, so i'll give that a go