Hello everyone,

Want all your experience about various Flower Horn food!

Here at FHUSA, we feed Aweek Red, Hai Feng Ever Nature Arowana pellet, Grand Omega, Freeze dried krills, and frozen blood worms.


I like to see some experiance!

Aweek Red, Vegra-X, Sumo and Aquaone twice a week. -

Hikari pellets in the morning, freeze dried krill in early afternoon and sometimes frozen bloodworms. Gonna try live crawfish this afternoon per Aaron's sugestion as a treat!!! Oh yeah...Feeder guppies are a must!!! peace

l-l0l_l Im using live blood worms, small feeders, and galaxy fh food. around 5 times a day, and I rotate

Hikari Gold, Sanyu aweek, tetra cichlid pellets and frozen blood worms on occassion.

Sumo,Aweek Red,Earthworms

Earthworms????

Bro, that's a first. Do your FH like em?

As for me, I used a combination of feeders, live shrimp, and pellets.

One of the main problems we faced in the flower horn hobby is internal parasites. Our most dreaded disease is the swollen mouth, bloated stomach and white feces which are mostly caused by live foods such as feeders, worms etc.

We have lost thousands of dollars of fishes from these diseases and we can almost swear on limiting our farm to ONLY our fish pellets. At one time we were supplementing our breeding stocks with bloodworms on top of the regular pellets and we ended up having all these problems. But all these stopped when we discontinued the bloodworms.

Well, of course we have heard of hobbyists feeding their fishes with live foods and everything is fine. As for us, we wouldnt want to take the risk again because we cannot afford to have any of our fishes falling sick once more. Better safe than sorry.

Just my two cents!

FHI 34 yes they love them.but it gets the tank dirty fast with the soil from the inside of the worms. .Did you get my E-Mail about the SRS fish?

I used to feed my FH earthworms as a treat, but the tank got too nasty. I would'nt recommend it.

I just got some Quick Red, a prodcut sold by www.flowerhorn4sal.com. I also like to give them freeze dried krill.

at what point should I stop feeding mine flakes??

right now he's eating tropical fish flakes and is only 1 inch long....at what point should I start giving him Hikari mini pellets?? 3 inches?

and where can I find Grand Sumo?

you should give him hikari cichlid complete while he is small.. that is a good food for smaller fish. You can get him on grand sumo and freeze dried krill when he gets a little bigger

I don't think he can swallow the mini pellets.....my jds can't and he's smaller than them

cichlid complete look like little discs.. its the best of hikari brand, my 1" were eating it no problems.

buy pellets which doesnt contain artifical colouring agent!!lk out for high protein content!!choose the size of pellet that suze ur needs.....basically 3 sizes s/m/l
all r indicated on the bottle!!

live feed are gd!!but lk out for sick feeders..........quarantine feeder in a small tank for few day b4 start feeding it w ur fh

cichlid complete has the highest protein i have found 55% and most of which comes from salmon meal which is high in essential fatty acids, which will disolve fat while pumping up muscle maybe. Im going to continue to feed this stuff to my small flowerhorn up untill 4" range when i get them on a some imported pellets.

Some one should try to import Hikari flowerhorn my cousin from HK told me everyones using it, I think its pretty good.

couldn't you tell him to buy a case of them and send it over to you and then you sell it

you can soak the pellets in a cup fish to soften them up a bit

[QUOTE]couldn't you tell him to buy a case of them and send it over to you and then you sell it

Bro thats a great Idea, I might try that!!!!!

I'd try it if you could get some over here. Let us know please

Ill try but, Im kinda busy so yeah

i found using hikari lion head gold is good i know its a gold fish food but it is a high protien and a good color inhancer it also helps with kok groth i just find it that little bit better than standed cichlid bio gold well thats my oppionon

I was gonig to try that before i bought my flowerhorn bro, I was wondering will it pump the kok out!?!?!?!?!?

so does any one have or have been experienced with feeding live foods other than dried foods or pellets, and which one is truth feeding types that most flower horns expect to have for their growth and lifes ...?

hahahaha ...Bilbo ...that might work for older Flower Horns ...

My Only LH eats
Live:
Crickets
Roaches (Small)
Tropical Cockaroaches (Big Brown Flying Suckers)
Lizards (Gecko)

Not Live:
Refridgerated Maggots (Fruit Fly)
bh

Pellets:
cheap bulk koi pellets + Human Vitamin + Asta + fish Oil

is cock roaches come with poison in its body ..?

woah, that's goldfish food though weird

Yes gomyau, that is definitely one type of feed that we have come across here that has really been a surprise. I know that you won't be dissappointed when you try it. Also add some high quality Koi food for their beneficial enzymatic protein content. We have tried and tested many products out on the market and have found here in the USA some really great quality ones out on the market.

Marc

My FHs hate soaked food, I guess they don't like their pellets soggy, hopefully this won't lead to swim bladder problems

You can buy red color enhancer at www.kensfish.com as NatuRose Astaxanthan under Specialty Foods and the food there has a pretty high protein content.

hey guys, this is my flowerhorn, but i have a problem. he DOSEN'T eat pellets. he used to eat dried shrimp, but not any more. now he don't eat nothing but frozen brimeshrimp and live blood worms. what do i do?

FhRuby Posted on Aug 14 2004, 04:35 PM

Thought about that...but Figured if Had Poison would Die already...No?...i feed Only live roaches and lizards

if poisons u mean natural toxins in the body which are harmful to fish...I dont know...but never had a fish die from eating roaches ...could you point me to any sites which say that?...that would be greatly appreciated!

here is something ...you can find out about cock roaches ...http://www.svswa.org/ipm/docs/Roaches.1_01.pdf ...i mean it might not harm to your fish ...but it s not a usual feeder ...

I wonder if i could use centipede to feed my fhs. I used to feed my Red Chili Aro with centipede, well actually everybody in Indonesia does feed their chili red with centipede. All those poisons would bring out mad colors to flower horn maybe...

Thanks for sharing the link...always good to be aware!
i am still a newbie to fish and am no expert on Any matter
are there any Live foods which there is NO risk of disease or bacteria?

We got all sorts of bugs in the tropics. And LH usually breaches to catch her own Lizards!

in My Limited Experience Live feeders fish are Usually disease transmitters themselves, will cause more harm than good and are not worth the effort! (I haven’t found a reliable source yet)
I thought the potential harm in roaches Less than Live Feeders and figured give it a try on something I don’t mind losing, my LH:
Roaches costs nothing and in My Opinion pose less threat to the health of the fish than unQT Feeders from the LFS. you dont have to QT your insects, pay for Meds or stock a small tank to pick them up in!

i think and its been said...You are What you Eat! and a lot has to do with Where the “food” in this case roaches, are Collected...like blackworms, bloodworms and tubiflex… it all depends on the Source and what goes Into them…Anything from a sewer is disgusting and unsanitary. Period.

it All comes down to what you think is fun and Best for you but more importantly Your Fishes!

Take care all

i'm hearing a lot how bloodworms are bad feeders. does this just apply to the live ones? i'm currently using frozen bloodworms without any notiable problems.

weekdays grand sumo, weekend frozen blood worm, the best

don't worry crazy, his pharyngeal teeth will take care of that.

I've just started feeding my FH's with my new Beef Heart/Veggie diet yesterday. I've got a good amount of veggie mixed with the beef heart. The mix looks light greenish-brown. I thought I might have overkilled with the veggie and garlic, but they ate it. I also threw some Spirulina and Astaxanthin in the mix.

I'll let you guys know how things turn out.

Dennis

i know you can help me with my sick fh.. by d way im nano from manila phil. im new here in fhusa.. my fish doesnt eat for almost a week.. and he always has a "stringy white pohh".. it started when i try to feed him w/ fresh shrimp and beef liver.. then the next day he dosnt want to eat anymore.. what should i do? how can i cure him?
i already change the water and add some salt but still..?

bro in my opinion your fh has hexamita, white poops is one symptom of this disease. they say feeding live food to your fh during cold season will give your fh indigestion thus leading to hexamita. this is curable just search for the cure here in the site. good luck bro.
NOTE: You should treat this ASAP this is serious.

Kool, just like going out with any gurl...rice during the week, something better on the weekends haha...

like wut? noodle on the weekend? haha

haha if she be good then she might got a hot dog lolz!!

just a hot dog! damn man ur hella cheap. haha. why dont u fry her a flowerhorn for dinner since someone post that it is tasty on one of the forum? oh nvm ur talkin bout some special hot dog. lol

yup yup!!

I feed my flower horn ocean free humpy for the nuchal hump to grow, grand sumo for body growth and Alife for the color. I also feed my fish super worm twice a week as a treat and feeders sometimes.