Gold nugget feeding

redzebra24 · Post by **redzebra24** » 22 Jun 2006, 00:34

I have a L177 i think gold nugget. I was wondering what i should feed it. would alage waffers be good?

LimaShovel · Post by **LimaShovel** » 22 Jun 2006, 01:41

try a piece of cucumber or zuchinni something like that.

FuglyDragon · Post by **FuglyDragon** » 22 Jun 2006, 07:27

Mine also eats mussles, prawns, frozen bloodworms and shrimps (and the leaves of my Amazon Sword plants till he was shifted) he readilly eats Courgette (zuchinni) especially the skin

kev · Post by **kev** » 22 Jun 2006, 10:59

yes they will eat algae wafers,

Kev

saraya · Post by **saraya** » 26 Jun 2006, 10:49

Mine also seems to like beef heart, squash and potato.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 26 Jun 2006, 11:56

I wouldn't recommend beef-heart, but that's just because I feel that beef is rarely found floating in the rivers of Brazil (there may be the odd corpse now and again, but for the average fish, this would be a minuscule part of the food-intake for a year).

Fruit and veg is fine, they apparently (according to Ingo Seidel as per other posts in this forum) have quite a long digestive tract, which indicates a more herbivorous than carnivorous feeding habits in nature. Bloodworms are appreciated by mine, but that's not the same thing as "They should be fed bloodworms" - my son who's two years old LOVES chips (french fries/pommes frites for the non-british readers) - but that's by no means an indication of "good food" for a small child, right?

So, small meaty portions now and again (and algae wafers will count towards the "meat"), with plenty of vegetable literally "available at all times".

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Mats

Zebrapl3co · Post by **Zebrapl3co** » 26 Jun 2006, 17:31

I notice that mine likes to graze on the tank glass for algae and recently I saw it grazing on my piece of driftwood exactly the way my clown pleco are grazing on the wood. This leads me to wonder if it eats wood as part of it's diet as well.
Does anybody have this expereince with their gold nugget as well?

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 26 Jun 2006, 17:49

Zebrapl3co wrote:I notice that mine likes to graze on the tank glass for algae and recently I saw it grazing on my piece of driftwood exactly the way my clown pl*co are grazing on the wood. This leads me to wonder if it eats wood as part of it's diet as well.
Does anybody have this expereince with their gold nugget as well?

Mine certainly hangs (and eats) on the wood - but they don't have chisels for teeth so I expect it's just doing the same thing as when it's on the glass - catching stuff that grows on the glass/wood... Some loose bits of wood may of course be scraped off and eaten - I'd not bet against that even if the odds given where very good...

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Mats

funkyj1313 · Post by **funkyj1313** » 28 Jun 2006, 07:11

I agree with matsp about too much protein in their diet.

Judazzz · Post by **Judazzz** » 28 Jun 2006, 12:11

MatsP wrote:I wouldn't recommend beef-heart, but that's just because I feel that beef is rarely found floating in the rivers of Brazil (there may be the odd corpse now and again, but for the average fish, this would be a minuscule part of the food-intake for a year).

I agree with that: the Nuggets I had loved meaty foods (although they rarely got any), but I don't think it's that good for them. Nuggets are primarily Aufwuchs-eaters and herbivores, so I don't think feeding loads of meaty foods can be good for them (their intestines aren't designed to process large amounts of it).

redzebra24 · Post by **redzebra24** » 28 Jun 2006, 18:00

just like mubna love srimp but it is horrilbe for them because of hi protein

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 28 Jun 2006, 18:05

redzebra24 wrote:just like mubna love srimp but it is horrilbe for them because of hi protein

Yupp, that would be the same type of problem.

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Mats

Judazzz · Post by **Judazzz** » 28 Jun 2006, 18:06

redzebra24 wrote:just like mubna love srimp but it is horrilbe for them because of hi protein

Indeed!
Or the best analogy I've read so far (thanks to Shane): It's like kids - they'd eat candy, burgers and fries every day if they could. But because they would doesn't mean they should.

saraya · Post by **saraya** » 28 Jun 2006, 19:51

Thanks for the info. I will cut back on the meaty stuff.

I hope I haven't done him any long lasting damage.