Discus beefhert

[GaryE]

Didn't this same discussion with the same answers occur a year ago and a year before that and the year before that .....

Always. The internet has dementia, and everything said here is forgotten til it's said again.

 

[Mazain]

Stephen Tanner

I watched his Swiss tropical YouTube interview on sponge filters. Respect for researchers with scientific reasoning on breaking down bioload and fish waste in water. But, I remember when I was a young boy, I first liked the fish, then brought a tank to house it, every thing else is history.
Nowadays aquariums are so commercialized that you need a fortune to start the hobby.

but @Mazain likes it

Thanks garyE, I tried various fish food products like flakes, pellets, frozen blood worms, dried blood worms, astaxanthin, spirulina, beefheart mix etc. However, I was not getting the results I was expecting and which was recommended in groups, forums and communities of fish keeping.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

If food is food why aren't all just tossing dog kibble into our tanks?

 

[Mazain]

If food is food why aren't all just tossing dog kibble into our tanks?

My arapima used to eat all that including rats. I gave it to a public aquarium called "Water World" in kelaniya.

 

[Magnum Man]

I used to feed my piranhas, and oscar's chicken liver, hand diced into large aquarium pellet sized pieces.... this was 30 years ago... it seemed good for the fish, I didn't breed them, but they all looked to be in prime condition, and they all lived long lives ( for captive fish 30 years ago ) it just required a better than normal filter... I'm surprised the discus clan didn't go that way??? but I also was chopping up "popcorn" shrimp, and other grocery store shellfish more, back then, also...

... and my show quality blue zebra lace angel, actively hunts cardinal tetras, so I know 1st hand that that is a quality, albeit, expensive food source...

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

Well if I ever get my Nile crocodile I'll feed it a natural diet. Natives.

 

[Magnum Man]

I thought they ate more wildebeast... you're going to need at least a " back 40" to hold your croc food

 

[Mazain]

. I'm surprised the discus clan didn't go that way?

There were only powder blue and turquoise discus 30 years back in sri lanka.
So all the gangs were in rivers doing torpedo wrestling.

 

[Magnum Man]

a family friend, of my dad's, raised discus 30 years ago, my 1st exposure to them... he ran a boys group home, and my 1st piranhas came from there, a group of 4 adults , and a 55 gallon... his discus were probably wild caught, back then, but I still remember the bright blues and greens

 

[GaryE]

If food is food why aren't all just tossing dog kibble into our tanks?

We could toss straw men in as well.

The attempt we make is to approximate a natural diet. When I look at some of the pellet foods on the market, maybe we ARE tossing dog kibble in, but we both know there's an attempt at digestible ingredients at play.

I use kitten kibble to feed grindal worms, which I toss into tanks. They're terrestrial worms, so the Hoplisoma haven't eaten them in the wild, but they are worms and that's close enough. All we can do is close enough. Personally, nothing but having a working freezer and a dead cow after the collapse of capitalism could make me use beefheart to feed my fish, but others see it as close enough. It's a judgment call.