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- From: jessop@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Class Dinosauria)
- Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
- Subject: Re: Recommendation on cold water fish
- Keywords: Picky
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.200817.4656@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:08:17 GMT
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- >Speaking of Betta, I have a few in seperate tanks and am having some
- >difficulty with feeding. I feed my lovelies twice a day, but they
- >turn their noses up at frozen brine shrimp. They seem to only want
- >live. Has anyone else had this experience?
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- No, I haven't had that problem with bettas, but my sunfish are sometimes picky
- that way... and my perch will eat only live foods... Do you thaw out the brine shrimp first?
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- The funny thing is w/ my sunnies, is that they love flake food, but refuse to
- eat frozen foods... yet they gobble live foods.
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- Do your bettas eat flake foods? If so, I wouldn't worry too much... I'd just
- keep feeding them flake food and treat them to a weekly feast of live brine
- shrimp...
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- Hmmm... looking back on what I wrote, my train of thought is kind of broken.
- Sorry 'bout that!
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- Mike
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