Will hoplos and Dianemas eat algae wafers???

Cory_lover · Post by **Cory_lover** » 28 Feb 2003, 10:37

HI all. i'm just having this slight problem in my tank.

just b4 i left for holidays last year i bought a new packet of wardley shrimp pellets for my good fish friend to look after my fish for me. the fish i had then would go crazy over them.

But now that i have my new batch of corys, 1 hoplo and 2 dianemas, they don't seem to like the pellets all that much. They would juzz taste it, and then swim away. so now i have to feed them flakes, and frozen brineshrimp.

QUestion here is, is there any expiry date for the pellets that might cause the fish not to like them now?? Next, if i buy algae wafers, would the dianemas and hoplos eat them as well????

Thanks for all your help...

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 28 Feb 2003, 10:54

hi!

Guess u are talking about Megalechis when writing Hoplo. I have 3 M.personata and they arent fuzzy feeders at all they will eat ANYTHING and huge quantities of that. Really makes we wonder when i hear your fish dont touch them...imho dried food wont go bad in a sense of being uneatable but will loose all usefull components (vitamins)...ive never had any expired food so i cant really tell.
Why dyou wonna buy algae wafers? Theres a whole bunch of Catfish/Loach tablets out there which would do fine.

Post by **Silurus** » 28 Feb 2003, 12:03

I hate to say this again , but Wardley's fish foods suck. Your new fish were probably fed better quality food at the LFS and don't like the pellets.
Buy some Hikari carnivore pellets. I have yet to see a catfish that wouldn't touch these.

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 28 Feb 2003, 13:14

Second that, Siluris.
Throw the shrimp wafers to the birds, get some good foodpellets, or plain flakefood (tetra, Sera, OSI, Hikari etc; all good).
Hoplo's like algaewafers, but it isn't 'enough' for them, you should add some proteinfood.

Cory_lover · Post by **Cory_lover** » 01 Mar 2003, 00:48

erm...i haven't heard of HIkari carnivore pellets before.

Post by **Silurus** » 01 Mar 2003, 00:55

This should give you an idea: http://www.hikariusa.com/sinking_carnivore.htm.

Cory_lover · Post by **Cory_lover** » 02 Mar 2003, 11:55

alritez...thanks for that..but are they available outside the USA??? I'm living in australia...and things available here are pretty limited, depending on where u go.

Post by **Silurus** » 02 Mar 2003, 12:39

They are available outside the US. The parent company is Japanese, and I know they are readily available in Singapore at least.
Not sure about Australia, though.

Cory_lover · Post by **Cory_lover** » 03 Mar 2003, 10:53

hahaha...yeah i'm singaporean..but now studying in australia...spore has everything doesn't it? ahahahaha....

thanks for that guys

CoolTcat · Post by **CoolTcat** » 11 Jun 2004, 14:30

My Hoplo (now a Megalechis I guess) thoracatum eats Hikari Tropical Sinking Wafers at a single gulp. Like the man says they eat many things at a single gulp, often.
My Corys perversely prefer the old Wardly's Shrimp Pellets. They get lots of frozen/live stuff too.
Hikari can be got in Sydney or by mailorder from <www.aquamail.com.au>
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