toaduck
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I am stocking up food for when I get my cockatoos in a few weeks. What is the best. Flake, pellets, frozen, live? I have some frozen mysis shrimp left over from when I had frogs.
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What do you feed your cockatoos
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Live and frozen foods almost exclusively. My apistos will not eat dry foods immediately. They will sift some out of the sand eventually, but most goes to other fish or waste.
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I feed a mix of good quality flakes and micro pellets as staple with the addition of some life food (BBS and microworms, mozzie larvae in summer, occasionally black worms) a few times a week. Fry are raised on life food food to start with, then switched over to flakes.
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Hi all,
Mysis shrimp is OK, I used to feed live Cherry shrimps as well.
Mine get mainly live food in the summer (Daphnia and Mosquito larvae), with a very small scrape of Grindal worms.
In the winter I feed more Blackworms (Lumbriculus), Bloodworms (Chironomid larvae) and Red Worms (Lumbricus rubellus), together with Earthworm/Spirulina flake and Astax crumb. I still feed Daphnia etc., but they aren't as prolific in the winter.
Juveniles get Banana worms and Rotifers as well, but I keep very weedy tanks with lots of moss, so I have quite a large resident population of Copepods & Ostracods for them to have a go at.
Live food is great and mostly fairly low maintenance to culture. I'd recommend Mike Hellweg's book "Culturing Live Foods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Culturing One's Own Food for the Home Aquarium".
If I had more tanks I would definitely raise BBS.
cheers Darrel
Mysis shrimp is OK, I used to feed live Cherry shrimps as well.
Mine get mainly live food in the summer (Daphnia and Mosquito larvae), with a very small scrape of Grindal worms.
In the winter I feed more Blackworms (Lumbriculus), Bloodworms (Chironomid larvae) and Red Worms (Lumbricus rubellus), together with Earthworm/Spirulina flake and Astax crumb. I still feed Daphnia etc., but they aren't as prolific in the winter.
Juveniles get Banana worms and Rotifers as well, but I keep very weedy tanks with lots of moss, so I have quite a large resident population of Copepods & Ostracods for them to have a go at.
Live food is great and mostly fairly low maintenance to culture. I'd recommend Mike Hellweg's book "Culturing Live Foods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Culturing One's Own Food for the Home Aquarium".
If I had more tanks I would definitely raise BBS.
cheers Darrel
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Mine get a range of live bloodworm, brineshrimp, baby brineshrimp, frozen foods, flake foods, discus pellets and vege and meat tablets. I also feed sliced frozen prawns too. They'll all happily eat dry food in mine so I guess I'm lucky with that.
