Pirahna Staple Diet

[GusBus27]

Hey, I just got 3 little red belly piranhas & I was just wondering what some other people use as their staple diet. I have some flakes and freeze dried blood worms now that I feed my fry. I was just looking for a cheapish less messy type of staple food.

 

[Lupin]

Varying the food diet by including a range of live foods, frozen and freeze-dried is staple enough. Buying cheap quality of foods simply may not be nutritious enough to the fish.

 

[jm1212]

stay away from goldfish feeders at the store. they tend to be lacking in nutrition and carry diseases.

 

[Danyal]

look into a mix of frozen foods like beef heart, mysis shrimp and blood worms and mix in also things like a good quality pellet food and for live foods things like crickets and live tubiflex worms and if you want to feed live fish then breed your own guppies or mollies.

 

[GusBus27]

Yeah, I have a bunch of convict fry and a breeding pair, I have crickets, ghost shrimp, freeze dried blood worms, frozen (brine shrimp, blood worms, and a couple different mixes), but I was just wondering what type of pellets might be economical to use as their primary food source, or just pellets that they would like and maybe not be too messy.? I do also use comets and rosies for my gar, but I usually keep them for a while and do very regular water changes and feed them good, so I use them on occasion.

 

[GusBus27]

what about earthworms?? they dont seem like they would be very nutricious... and probably really messy..?

 

[Lupin]

what about earthworms?? they dont seem like they would be very nutricious... and probably really messy..?

They can be messy. Feed one at a time. You can chopped them but I wouldn't think about it.:crazy: They're nutritious by the way and make sure you get them from clean sources, not gardens with pesticides.