P motaguensis food.
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if these are Poecilia you raise yourself, make sure you gut load them with high quality flake food. to add nutrition
but If they are feeders from the LFS, make sure you QT them long enough, and also gut load them during the QT process, to make sure they are not infected with or carriers of some parasite, or disease that could be transferred to the motaguense. Feeders raised commercially are often raised under substandard conditions to keep their price low.
And consider that in nature about half the food these Parachromis get, are terrestrial insects, and aquatic invertebrates .
I prefer feeding a high quality pellet, and freshly caught insects, to lessen the chance of parasitic introduction to my system.
if these are Poecilia you raise yourself, make sure you gut load them with high quality flake food. to add nutrition
but If they are feeders from the LFS, make sure you QT them long enough, and also gut load them during the QT process, to make sure they are not infected with or carriers of some parasite, or disease that could be transferred to the motaguense. Feeders raised commercially are often raised under substandard conditions to keep their price low.
And consider that in nature about half the food these Parachromis get, are terrestrial insects, and aquatic invertebrates .
I prefer feeding a high quality pellet, and freshly caught insects, to lessen the chance of parasitic introduction to my system.
Because I live on an island where there are no such thing as pet stores, I improvise with local availability a lot.
If using pellets, I usually feed a predatory species like adult cichlids one meal a day for 2 days, and skip a feeding on the 3rd day.
If a meal the size of the large locust, I'd skip a feeding the next day.
same goes, if fed something meaty like a fresh gecko found dead on the patio, or fish eggs from a local salt water fish for my dinner, or their trimmings.
For omnivores I grow algae in sunlit sumps to add variety, a clump may last a few days
If using pellets, I usually feed a predatory species like adult cichlids one meal a day for 2 days, and skip a feeding on the 3rd day.
If a meal the size of the large locust, I'd skip a feeding the next day.
same goes, if fed something meaty like a fresh gecko found dead on the patio, or fish eggs from a local salt water fish for my dinner, or their trimmings.
For omnivores I grow algae in sunlit sumps to add variety, a clump may last a few days