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Vegetable-based Pellet foods
Posted: 25 Jan 2004, 12:09
by coelacanth
Anyone tried feeding the sort of pellets that are sold for Rabbits, Chinchillas etc. to Loricariids?
I offered a few to some Ancistrus and they were pounced on pretty quickly, but wondered if anyone had tried them on other species.
Posted: 25 Jan 2004, 19:59
by Barbie
Those pellets are made with a pretty high protein content from the alfalfa hay they use. My mother used to have a friend that had a mill that made different pellet feeds, a couple hours drive from here. Maybe I can check into exactly what they put into them. Did they hold up long in the water? Or were you feeding them to fish large enough they didn't have time to fall apart?
Dang, now I'm going to have to try this, since I've heard you did and nothing died. 
Barbie
Posted: 25 Jan 2004, 20:04
by coelacanth
Barbie wrote:Those pellets are made with a pretty high protein content from the alfalfa hay they use. My mother used to have a friend that had a mill that made different pellet feeds, a couple hours drive from here. Maybe I can check into exactly what they put into them. Did they hold up long in the water? Or were you feeding them to fish large enough they didn't have time to fall apart?
Everything went for them, including various
Cichlids, but in spite of this they held their shape well. I used information from an aquaculture reference when deciding to try this, we'll see.
Barbie wrote:Dang, now I'm going to have to try this, since I've heard you did and nothing died.
Steady on there, I haven't been back into work yet...
Posted: 25 Jan 2004, 20:13
by Barbie
You can buy straight compressed alfalfa pellets for horses, that wouldn't have the "unknown" vitamin mix and what not added to it. They should be relatively safe. 
Barbie
Re: Vegetable-based Pellet foods
Posted: 26 Jan 2004, 16:42
by joern
coelacanth wrote:Anyone tried feeding the sort of pellets that are sold for Rabbits, Chinchillas etc. to Loricariids?
I offered a few to some Ancistrus and they were pounced on pretty quickly, but wondered if anyone had tried them on other species.
I feed these about one year, 2 or 3 day's a week plus other food. This is also a good food for crayfish !
I also test pellets for cows, somewhat bigger in size, got a handfull from an neigbour, but not willing to buy a 50kg-sack. For most animal food you can get detail information about the content, somewhat better control than our fish-food !
Larry Vires talked about vegetable doogy-food, no personal experience
http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=4380
These pellets are nice food in addition to the normal diet. Also taken from the cory's.
Re: Vegetable-based Pellet foods
Posted: 28 Jan 2004, 16:26
by joern
Hello Coelacanth,
forgot to tell which species I gave them: L134 and L135, were the L135 seem to like it pretty well, while the L134 just "accept" it. For L135 it's about 1/5 to 1/4 of the overall food they get in my tank, for L134 a little bit less.
SInce these pellets used as fish-food posted in some forums in Germany, it seems to me, that several indivuals und species are fed with this food, or for plecos-specialist it's quite common to use this food.
I'm intrested in other "non-pet-shop-foods" for plecos (without vegetables, which is allready quite common).
Any ideas