Yoyo Loach Care Guide

Yoyo Loach Care - Tank Mates other Bottom Feeders? Taking care of them is extremely easy. I feed them this sinking shrimp pellets made by omega one.

More topics: I feed my pea puffer live snails,blood worms,daphina and brine shirmp. I do enjoy watching her eat, it means she's happy and healthy. It would be horrible to let a fish starve.

I know nothing of freshwater barracuda but I'm sure he would be alot happier and healthier if you have him live meals. Feeder guppies and feeder comet goldies are more common here. As long as the feeders have been treated well and with respect I see no issue with it personally. They’re lower on the food chain so as I see it their ultimate destiny is to mate and be eaten.. lol

I trained my jaguar cichlid to switch from live food only to accept pellets...took a few weeks but he made the switch...occasionally as a treat i'll throw in live guppies. Theres no problem with live feeding. The issue lies in the fact that. Theres no nutritional value in say zebra danio or feeder goldfish just based on how their raised what I would do in your case is but a fancy guppy strain and fatten them up on home made food breed them like crazy, and feed them to my barracuda. And make sure that my water had ann the vitamins that he could then absorb afterwards. Buying live foods from a store all the time also risks you bringing in parasites to make your fish sick that's another risk of feeding live foods! And why I dont like it, but some fish simply wont have it..

I just started using guppies as feeders too. Got 2 little tuegelsi bichirs that are too small to go in the big tank so I had to set up a smaller one for them (been looking for these fish for 3 years) and figured I needed something to help with extra food and be feeders as the tuegelsis grow. Started with 6 (3m3f) and a male disappeared the like second night. Tried to add another and it got eaten the first night. I see one baby so far.

Lol. Sounds like the moral dilemma is his. He wants absolution for his actions.

I will state beforehand that I do not begrudge anyone who does live fish feeding. I do not, but I do feed live shrimp and worms and an occassional random insect that I find. My philosphy is that when I acquire a fish it is my duty to give it the best life I can. If I purchase a fish to be eaten by others, it violates that personal ethic.

But lets be honest, feeding live fish is in no way related to the wild. In the wild, a predator and its prey both have a chance. It's called natural selection, only the less savy and less physically fit prey get eaten. An aquarium is different. It is a closed system, prey will eventually succumb, they have nowhere to go no matter how physically fit or crafty tbey are.

You can say its the food chain, circle of life, nature, etc. But there is a difference. God decides in the wild who gets eaten. In the aquarium, you play God and there is no other option than being eaten.

I saw a live feeding video, where the guy fed his giant carnivore a mouse. There is nothing wrong with ensuring your pets eat. I'm fascinated by live feedings, because 1. I couldn't do it, but I don't get fish where I would need to (hello community tanks) and 2. It's so neat to watch the circle of life.
Was I rooting for the little mousey to swim free, heck to yes.

The circle of life is that predators get old and slow and can starve when they can not feed. Many predators have other fish that may prey on them. Many predators when they are searching for prey have to be aware of their surroundings, lest they themselves become prey. Hurts their efficiency.

Many "prey" fish are schoolers where their sheer numbers and multiple motions confuse predators. Many prey fish are excellent hiders or are super fast and quick. Works well in a river or large lake.

Bottom line is that a predator fish or a prey fish has to be in fine shape to be successful.

In an aquarium, none of that matters. The predator is guaranteed success because of space limitations. The circle of life is definitely skewed in an aquarium when you have a fish species that preys on another.