My mollie is pregnant and i saw the male doing the nasty with another female today. I was wondering what some good foods for the mollies would be while pregnant I normally just feed tetramin flakes i added some tubifex worms to see what would happen and the mollie just love them i put one cube in the tank and it takes them all day to eat it but my cory eates what falls to the bottom whick isn't much since between my two filters there is so much current the food doesn't really get to the bottom and it is just blown around the tank. I have read that they will eat veggies what kinds?
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newfishies
Fish Herder
i have fed mine peas (not canned) and cucumber...i have heard loads of others, but those are the only ones i tried so far
Polardbear
Fish Addict
Frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp would be good for her also. I feed both to my pregnant girls. I also feed them spirulina flakes occasionaly in place of their regular flakes.
paulthegreat
Fish Addict
If you can get frozen brine shrimp or black worms they will love it. Frozen is much better then freeze dried. Try some frozen peas, boil them soft and remove the shells from the individual peas and mush them a bit. I do not know about cucumber so on that I can not say I have never used it.
vidiots
Fish Fanatic
I have feed my fish a variety of live foods and they seem to like them all over the flake food they normally eat. I have tried raising daphnia, but was never able to get them to multiply quick enough to give my fish a regular diet of them just occasional snacks. In the summer I had great success with a rubbermaid tub of water out in the yard, I would just take out a large fish net and collect mosquito & midge larvae (the fish loved them). Lately I have been having sucess with brine shrimp. Brine shrimp are cheap and easy to hatch yourself. They are too much of a pain to try to maintain a continuous breeding culture of them that is large enough to feed all your fish. I hatch large amounts of brine shrimp everyday. 95% of them are fed to the fry tank right away. The other 5% are dumped into a 2.5gal tank and allowed to grow to adults before being fed to the fish. I grow freshwater algae in my basement with some old aquarium lights. To grow the algae I just dose tap water with liquid miracle grow and dump in some of the green water from one of the algae jugs I'm harvesting to start a new jug. I syphon water from the bottom of my brine shrimp tank along with brineshimp though a fine screen (50microns) that catches them. I feed the adult brine shrim to the fish. I take my jug of algae water and add salt to it then use it to top off the brine shrimp tank. I reuse the old water from the brine shrimp tank as hatch water for more brine shrimp until it begins to smell bad then I dump it out (saves on mixing fresh salt water for the hatcher which is just gonna foul anyway). You might be asking why I'm using freshwater algae instead of saltwater algae, the answer is that all my salt water algae cultures have crashed but the fresh water cultures are all growing strong. The brine shrimp don't care where it came from they are happy to eat it. If you want easy I would avoid growing adult brine shrimp and just feed baby brine shrimp if you want to feed your fish live food. It's hard to find a place that sells live food and takes lots of work to maintain a breeding culture, but hatching new baby brine shrimp is quick, easy and cheap.
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