Constant supply of live food.....

[corbypete]

I'n the next few weeks I will be purchasing some bucktooth tetras. At the moment I've got my tank that was today installed with sand, my filter is in the post, so I'm just a few weeks away from getting them

however, I'm concerned as to what to feed them. Yes theyre tropical, yes theyre tetras, but should i not be feeding them live food daily?

will frozen do?

Or should is set up a sister tank with some breeding fish, for a constant supply of grub?

thanks in advance, as always you lot give great advice

 

[LoachLover]

Seems like they would eat brine shrimp

 

[CFC]

Seems like they would eat brine shrimp

Have you any idea what bucktooth tetras are?

Exodon paradoxus is primarily a scale and fin eater in the wild though captive fish can be fed on whole frozen feeders like whitebait, lance fish or silver sides. Live fish is not a nessesity.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

how big is your tank, they grow to be 7 inches. do some research online

 

[corbypete]

30 gallon

no, they grow to 3" in the home aquarium, around 6'" in the wild.

I've taken advice from CFC in the past who owns some.


Its that or a lonesome piranha, but i prefere more in a tank tbh

 

[Opcn]

I think you need more that 30 gallons, the only reason they don't grow bigger is that they don't have the room to, You could kep another tank of mollies or convicts or something but it would be alot easier and cheeper to just keep some deadfish in the freezer, if you really want to see them hunt you can always get an acrylic feeding rod.