crickets??

[dprais1]

I've been thinking about changing my discus diet to just blackworms and crickets. I could gut-load the crickets with veggies, vitamins, etc....

any thoughts? anybody try this or similiar before?

[Eddie]

Are your discus readily taking crickets? Must be some micro crickets.

[fredfry]

I hope they don't swallow the legs.

[brianyam]

I think that is a good idea. I love fishing, and fish in our waters are very silimar (if not related) to discus (sunfish, perch, bass), and their main diet is insects like crickets. I have an arowana that I feed live meal worms, and I often break a few meal worms and throw them in my discus tank. They love it. No bacteria, allot of nutrition and protien. I don't see why it would be a problem given that allot of people throw in beef heart and raw shrimp mixes for their discus. I use to do that, but too messy and I have read long term beef heart can't be too good for discus (it is beef after all that a discus would never get in the wild). My only suggestion is don't feed them too much as they may stop eating dry food.

[dprais1]

This is all theoretical at this point. I can't imagine they would not eat a cricket. maybe chop up the adults ones??

[Chicago Discus]

This is all theoretical at this point. I can't imagine they would not eat a cricket. maybe chop up the adults ones??

No you can't feed crickets to my fry LOL.......Josie

[dprais1]

No you can't feed crickets to my fry LOL.......Josie

Of course not...I will tell them in a very firm voice that the crickets are not for them and that if they are good i will give them blackworms.

:o

dan

[Chicago Discus]

Of course not...I will tell them in a very firm voice that the crickets are not for them and that if they are good i will give them blackworms.

:o

dan


LOL I really wanted to talk to you at the show but I was bagging discus like a mad women.......Josie

[dprais1]

okay, crickets aren't really practical if i have to chop them up into little pieces.

and I do NOT want Josie angered at me.,,,,

[Orange Crush]

okay, crickets aren't really practical if i have to chop them up into little pieces.

and I do NOT want Josie angered at me.,,,,
yea don't piss her off, she could have you thrown in jail on trumped up charges. lol;)

[dprais1]

first LOL ever, thanks orange i needed that after spending the morning in the psych ward

[dprais1]

.............for my nursing degree, not as a patient

[Orange Crush]

.............for my nursing degree, not as a patient
Suuuure. ;)

[dprais1]

Suuuure. ;)

addmited for OCD related to discus as evidenced by dan states he spends entirely too much time surfing "Simply Discus," watching a fish tank and thinking about fish

[Orange Crush]

addmited for OCD related to discus as evidenced by dan states he spends entirely too much time surfing "Simply Discus," watching a fish tank and thinking about fish
they should put that diagnosis in the DSM

[PAR23]

I have read long term beef heart can't be too good for discus (it is beef after all that a discus would never get in the wild).

This is the second time I have read this recently......Can someone confirm this. I still feed my adults BH mix from time to time.

[brewmaster15]

This is the second time I have read this recently......Can someone confirm this. I still feed my adults BH mix from time to time.
Peter, Take a look at Stendkers Hatchery...

http://www.diskuszucht-stendker.de/gb/321,0,discus-food,index,0.html

hth,

and Dan on the crickets... absolutely," pin heads " (these are tiny baby crickets to those not into herps" dusted with Vitamens and calc would be fine... about 10 years ago, a good friend of Mine , Jason from Canada, and I brain stormed alot on insects as food for discus, possibly as a trigger for Heckels breeding... At the time he was collecting all sorts of bugs at night by light.. I used a black light to attract them to a trap... I even collected them under trees by laying out a white sheet and shaking the trees... My wilds at that time often went to town on many of these... never got far along enough to see if it was a breeding trigger as it was alot of work and off course seasonal here in CT... But I even feed them vitamen dusted flies.:)

hth,
al

[PAR23]

Peter, Take a look at Stendkers Hatchery...

http://www.diskuszucht-stendker.de/gb/321,0,discus-food,index,0.html

hth,
al

Thanks for the link Al. I always suspected it and this just proves it. If it's good enough for Stendker then it's good enough for me.

[korbi_doc]

Yep Al, if I bat a fly in the house, I feed it to the discus...they love'm....once they've tried'm

Dottie