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hey guys,

i know there has been a few threads about home made food ect ect but i find that no matter what i put in it my zebras dont really seem to eat it. i made my own mix with squid, prawns, mussels, fish, some veggies ect but non of my zebras would touch it (at least most of it was left in the mornin and i had to cyphon it out!!) even when i put live bloodworms in most stay untouched! at the moment mine get mostly tetra prima, with some new life spectrum finiky fish food & wafers thrown in from time to time and either frozen mysis or brine but i would really like to vary their diet much more so i know they are getting everything they need. does anyone have any tips or recipies (or indeed a specific type of dry food) that their zebras love and is good for them?

all the best,

andy

Mine love lobster eggs (frozen food)

ahhh very interesting...! thats the kind of tips i was after!!

now where the hell do i get lobster eggs....

LFS ? in the frozen section

I feed every day a mix of 25% discus granuler and 75% frozen food.
For frozen i use:
Bloodworms
Cockle
Mussel
Lobster eggs
Daphnies
Mysis
Tubifex
Artemia
I usually choose a mix of two of the frozen foods and every day another mix.

For my babies i use this: http://www.happyfish.eu/babycat.htm

Hope you can read german, anyway it's a special mix especially for baby omnivore catfish.

I am not one to make up homemade foods and do little to no live foods as well. I feed the following:

AquaDyne wafers (mix of meaty and veggie ones)
Hikari Sinking Wafers
Earthworm Sticks
Spirulina Flake w/ garlic (1 day/week)
Nutrafin Flake (now and then)
NLS Growth (.5mm sinking pellets)
Frozen Cyclop-eeze (which they go nuts for- esp fry)

Since I have fry and breeders together I do not feed frozen blood worms as I was warned fry are liable to choke themselves to death trying to eat them.

mine eat...

tetra prima
hikari sinking carnivore pellets
hikari sinking wafers
jmc catfish pellets
frozen bloodworm
hikari algae wafers
cucumber

there favourite seems to be carnivore pellets and tetra prima

rich1988oxford wrote:mine eat...

tetra prima
hikari sinking carnivore pellets
hikari sinking wafers
jmc catfish pellets
frozen bloodworm
hikari algae wafers
cucumber

there favourite seems to be carnivore pellets and tetra prima

Ours eat the same (although the cucumber dosnt get eaten anymore)

well if thats what smithrc also feeds then i would probably feed yours in a similar way, have you seen how big and healthy smithrcs zebs are. Must be a good choice of foods

Mine get.......

NewLifeSpectrum H20 tablets
NewLifeSpectrum Growth
Hikari sinking carnivore pellets
Hikari algae wafers
Omega Veggie disk
Omega Shrimp pellets

i am assuming you guys don't feed these all at once so how do you figure out how often to feed each food and also do you just rotate or what? thanks.

rose

Mine are still small/~2yrs old so they get one stomach size pellet each wether it comes that way or I have to break it. I feed probably every other day to sometimes everyday. I also alternate the foods to whatever I feel like feeding them that day.

I have amano shrimp and MTS in the tank so they help clean up what's left.

Rozie26 wrote:i am assuming you guys don't feed these all at once so how do you figure out how often to feed each food and also do you just rotate or what? thanks.

rose

I've been feeding twice a day - with whatever comes to hand at the time

well i put in a sinking carnivore pellet hikari brand last night and i can't tell if he ate any or not cuz i have some freakin' little snails in there and they were eating on it. but i have no idea if he's eating and it drives me crazy so i moved his wood this morning to make sur ehe was still alive and he didn't move !!! i thought he was dead but he's not just not as lively as i thought he should be. so i moved the food to where he was and he just swam over it. so i am frustrated i have no idea if he's eating and i can't see his belly to see if it's sunk or full. so i can't wait to get my H2o pellets to see if he likes that and he not touched the zuccini i put in there.

dont worry about it feeding, zebras are often shy and dont eat until its dark (i.e night time when your not watching them) if i was you id feed before lights out and leave them alone, keep putting your hand in the tank trying to force it to feed will probably just make it less likley to eat it. i had my zebras for 6 months before i saw one eating