Sharkie Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 can someone please give me some sugestions as to whats some good foods for my koura and torrent fish bullies and inanga.i was thinking of a bit of flake blood worms and some chopped shrimp but other suggestions would be welcome as i have never kept natives before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supasi Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Koura eat detritus(decomposing organic matter, leaves etc) Native fish eat insects and their larvae, worms(bloodworms, whiteworms, earthworms chopped up etc) Others have feed beef heart cup into fine slithers. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplecatfish Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Our inanga love mossie larvae and will take tubifex worms from our hands. They also love young black crickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 My Koura loves one Hikari Tropical Sinking Wafer per day. My Inanga just get what they want. I don't feed them that often though as they seem to be overfed as it is - they probably scavenge some of the sinking wafers anyways. I only feed them once every 3-5 days ;s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted May 19, 2009 Report Share Posted May 19, 2009 Mine get a stable diet of heart meat (with all the fat cut off, frozen then cut up into bite-sized pieces). Live food when I can find it - daphnia, wrigglers, worms, mealworm beetles etc You will find they waste a lot of the flake food, and don't really tuck into it with much vigour. Apparently crayfish use plant-derived food for energy and animal-food (insects, fish etc) is used to grow. So a small koura needs lots of protein to grow, and larger ones need less, but they all got nuts for it (like us with fat and sugar!). Easy foods are sinking carnivore pellets, heart meat etc. Live food is usually too quick to get away, though worms are great fun. Otherwise frozen peas are a perennial favourite. Torries are great. Not sure what size your tank is etc, but be really careful with temps over summer, they can be very prone to issues. They take a while to get the idea of sinking foods (they are shaped to take food from underneath them) but they get it with practise and are awesome to watch feeding. Haven't done the shrimp thing myself but I am told it works. I am just dubious as to them being much more than water (ever seen a dried shrimp?) Oh, I used to used bloodworms. Apart from being expensive I discovered they just don't have enough in them for fast growing fish (kokopu), that is when I got on to heart meat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkie Posted May 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2009 great thanks for that i will add heart to the menue of prawns and bloodworms.i used to make my own food out of heart banana spinich chopped shrimps and peas with sheels removed then mix it through a thick poridge (with no salt) then spread it on oven trays and freeze it then i could wrap it up and just break what i needed off maybe i should make some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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