I've got a 3.5 inch white sucker. He sucks up frozen foods such as brine shrimp, bloodworms, mysis, and mosquito larvae, but always spits them out. The only thing he will eat is shrimp pellets. I've tried Hikari sinking carnivore pellets, but he spits those out right away.
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, Sep 15 2007 09:49 AM
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Posted 16 September 2007 - 05:25 PM
The only problem is that I have some fish that eat a lot. Also, i have three darters on the bottom. he still gets food, but he spits a lot out, so I'm experimenting with some sinking foods.
He also likes eating all the dead leaves off my plants and the algae off the snails and rocks.
He also likes eating all the dead leaves off my plants and the algae off the snails and rocks.
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Posted 17 September 2007 - 11:40 AM
The hatchery I worked at had some Rio Grande Suckers and they ate just about everything. On a regular basis they ate trout chow, they ate algae chips a couple times a week and frozen brine shrimp was a treat for them.
Make sure you watch your ammonia levels, some sucker species will produce high levels of ammonia.
Make sure you watch your ammonia levels, some sucker species will produce high levels of ammonia.
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Posted 17 September 2007 - 03:07 PM
I have had good luck feeding suckers (mainly chubsuckers, both lake and creek, and white suckers) the sinking shrimp pellets that are sold for cory cats at pet stores.
That is the main food in his diet. I'm going to the lfs in a couple days to restock on feeder fish, so i'll get some algae wafers and sinking wafers there. If the sucker doesn't eat them, i'm sure the bullhead will.
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