lionkiller
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Have any of you had your groupers ever take a liking to flake food? Mine does and seems to try to eat anything I throw in. Not that I am complaining, makes feeding easier.
Grouper question
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salty chee
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Originally posted by Lionkiller
Have any of you had your groupers ever take a liking to flake food? Mine does and seems to try to eat anything I throw in. Not that I am complaining, makes feeding easier.
I feed mine off of frozen foods. Ive actualy never heard a grouper being fed by commercianal foods. Are you sure it gets his nutrition needs?
lion_crazz
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I have had groupers that will eat just about anything (including my fingers if I put them in there for him). I would probably start mixing frozen food into his diet a lot more though. The flake food is probably not filling him up very much at all. Some frozen prawn, krill, shrimp, or silversides will fill his stomach a lot more. Flakes are for fish that have smaller stomaches (clowns, blennies, and sometimes tangs will nibble at flakes)
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exile415
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i feed my panther grouper feeders and frozens
lionkiller
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Thanks for the replies, due to the fish variety in my tank, 2 groupers, a dwarf lion, two tangs, 4 different gobies, a clarkii, and a molly I have to feed a varied diet to the tank.
I use, Krill, silversides, brine shrimp (on occassion), flake, pellet, formula 1&2, seaweed, and the occassional clam or shrimp.
I rotate all of this. So the groupers get their meat. Yesterday was the first time I saw the grouper eat the flake though which is why I asked if anyone else had ever seen it done. I never see my other grouper eat but he is twice the size of the other one. So he must be eating sometime.
I use, Krill, silversides, brine shrimp (on occassion), flake, pellet, formula 1&2, seaweed, and the occassional clam or shrimp.
I rotate all of this. So the groupers get their meat. Yesterday was the first time I saw the grouper eat the flake though which is why I asked if anyone else had ever seen it done. I never see my other grouper eat but he is twice the size of the other one. So he must be eating sometime.
salty chee
Member
Originally posted by Lionkiller
Thanks for the replies, due to the fish variety in my tank, 2 groupers, a dwarf lion, two tangs, 4 different gobies, a clarkii, and a molly I have to feed a varied diet to the tank.
I use, Krill, silversides, brine shrimp (on occassion), flake, pellet, formula 1&2, seaweed, and the occassional clam or shrimp.
I rotate all of this. So the groupers get their meat. Yesterday was the first time I saw the grouper eat the flake though which is why I asked if anyone else had ever seen it done. I never see my other grouper eat but he is twice the size of the other one. So he must be eating sometime.
I've never seen a molly. Thats wierd. I know what it looks like in my tank (its in my 10 gallon freshwater) but how can it be a saltwater fish. Must see!
lion_crazz
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It's not a freshwater fish at all. It is actually a brackish fish which grows up into a saltwater enviroment. I have one in my tank as well.
salty chee
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Wow! I guess you really do learn something every day.