List All Your Piranha Foods

[bumpylemon]

Im starting this thread to give everyone a better idea on what to feed their piranha. I just went to the store to get some frozen smelts. I seen they had frozen clams. So i was wondering if i can feed uncooked clams. I also wanted to know what else everyone else uses...

I use...

Shrimp (people always say market shrimp..no one ever says cooked/uncooked) I use the pink cooked kind i guess...dont know how much of a big deal that is.

Flake Food--your standard kind.. they eat it a lil bit.

Smelts/Silversides

Bloodworms (not now that they are bigger)

Beefheart (sometimes i use this)

I need more ideas. like salmon? haddock? raw clams...other things will be helpful to me as well as other members. thanks guys.

 

[Tim1027]

I've been feeding mine earth worms and hikari carnivorous sticks and they seem to be doing fine.

 

[bumpylemon]

ya i still gotta grab some earthworks and try that.

 

[Fishermoe14]

i feed,

hikari food sticks
beefheart once a week
shrimp when i feel like it
guppies when i get mad at them for eating my baby plecos
crappie minnows after i go fishing
earthworms/nightcrawlers after it rains
a mouse, one time.. no more thou

 

[LBathory]

their staple diet: beef heart plus (vitamin enriched), arowana sticks, market shrimp stuffed with cichlid gold, freeze dried krill. As a special treat: goldfish, baby rats, and raw chicken. Pretty much anything meaty will be fine as long as there is not too much fat.

 

[worldbelow07]

I feed mine, pollock, tilapia, shrimp, mahi mahi, silversides, cichlid gold, and sinking carnivore pellets.

 

[szabadasz]

i feed my Lil reds freeze dried bloodworms and shrimp live fish frozen miyse shrimp, krill ,squid, brine shrimp, and tropical (all the previous frozen foods in one )

 

[Cmb Mani]

I feed raw fish, chicken, Shrimp occasionally.. totally random schedule though!

 

[pwmin]

mine used to get shrimp, fish and scallops, but I've been trying to pellet train it. Right now, it's only getting pellets. I tried pellets and FD krill, but I always found the krill the next day. The pellets seem to be disappearing, but I haven't actually seen it eat any yet.

 

[dad_jsp]

They get one of each everyday. The catfish and tilpia are cut into 1" pieces.

catfish (frozen fresh)
tilapia (frozen fresh)
shrimp (frozen fresh)

Once in a while I will get them earthworms. I stopped feeding them beefheart completely.

I have 11 and they are all 5.5+", with the largest being almost 7".