Carol is such a sweetheart and a beginners best friend.
Carol always that the best ideas. Last time I heard, she was cross breeding dogs. Most dog people thing that crossing purebreds is disgraceful. I'm not that snooty. I think it's great if you know what you're doing. I know Carol does.
I know that this thread is ancient. I stumbled upon it and it got me to missing her presence here.
Mama Bear
Carol is such a sweetheart and a beginners best friend.
High protein, low fat mate. Simple as that
The thing I don’t get and I have heard other people say this is that people can spend a small fortune on their tanks, filters, heaters, and their fish, I've seen discus go for hundreds of dollars and they cheap out on their food and generally they have problems. Dee
Just because beef heart is relative cheap does not mean it is a bad food. Most folks mix the BF with all kinds of other meats, veggies, vitamins etc to make a complete food. Have you looked up any of the BF recipes here on the forum. Take a gander thru some of these...
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...hlight=recipes
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...hlight=recipes
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
When I make BH, I make it 10+ lbs at a time. Add up the rest of the ingredients and it costs well over $100. While it's a very healthy food and my discus love it, I don't consider that cheaping out...
I can tell you many years ago I read the ingredients on my fish food and much like people food there aren't many good foods available, people get fooled into believing that if they purchase food from the grocery store that it is good, just as with fish food, so after reading the fish food label and seeing what was in it I did extensive research on foods and what's good and if I can find my book I will post my findings, but I can tell you I will never put raw beef in my fish tank. Dee
I wouldn't put it in your tank either... It really does require bare bottom to use it.
That said it is a well established excellent fish food. And by making it yourself or say buying from a reputable breeder... you know exactly what is in it.
Ok Pat I found my book and I would like to say that my very first post at this forum was for help with discus juveniles, check out the responses I got, so then I checked out the grow out challenge and if I followed any body it would be you, I have been in the fish hobby for many years you can check me out on planetcatfish, so in getting back to the food I read ingredients one day and thought my goodness what fish ever has the opportunity to eat that in nature, so that's when the research began and here is what I feed
Live blackworm once a week
Freeze dried blackworm
Freeze dried bloodworm
Freeze dried brine shrimp
Freeze dried daphnia
Freeze dried beefheart
Freeze dried rotifer
Freeze dried tubifex
When feeding freeze dried foods I heat a small container of water to boiling in the microwave and because most of the freeze dried food I use is cube form I use a small grater and grate the cubes into the hot water I allow the water to cool and the food should have sunk and then you can dump it in the tank.
Now for commercial foods I use new life spectrum flake
Omega one super kelp pellets
New life spectrum growth
Nori seaweed
I feed flakes in the morning
One freeze dried a day
And omega one kelp or seaweed a day
I'm not claiming to be an expert as I've been called, but some makers use fillers like cereal so what's that fruit loops for color I just try to think nature. Dee
I'm not trying to offend any one here but I can tell you I have done my research on food and I think people get fooled by a what a few say you should do with out doing any homework of their own, I may feed my piranha raw beef or my sharks but certainly not my discus they deserve better
Dee
If bare bottom is all you can do have at it I can see that for the big time breeders they all go bare bottom because of their water systems but unless you're a breeder as a business and not begging people to buy your fish so you can go on vacation why bother the discus is to majestic, it deserves better
Dee