Bala Shark Owners - Aquarium Advice

PBirdsong · 09-17-2005, 09:32 PM

What all do you feed your Bala sharks? I'm trying to experiment with different types of foods.

Protege · 09-17-2005, 11:16 PM

When I kept a Bala a long time ago, I'd feed it normal flake food, and the occasional frozen bloodworms (about once a week I'd say).

**Devilishturtles** · 09-18-2005, 01:31 AM

Mixture of flake, frozen, and freeze-dried foods.

**Zagz** · 09-18-2005, 02:50 PM

I feed mine flake food, zuccini's, cucumbers and frozen bloodworms as a treat.

RoK · 09-18-2005, 03:37 PM

My bala eats flakes (regular & spirulina-based), pellets (algae & carnivore), frozen bloodworms & brine shrimp, freeze-dried tubifex, peas, lettuce, and algae. They do love their veggies. I'm sure they'd even eat fruits.

andywg · 09-21-2005, 10:19 AM

My 6 get an assortment of flakes, pellets, live river shrimp, live crickets, live bloodworm (jumbo and regular), live daphnia, frozen bloodworm, frozen daphnia, frozen mussles, frozen prawns, courgettes and cucumber.

buckshot · 09-21-2005, 10:51 AM

I have had a bala in every community tank i have had, and they eat whatever. I feed mine mostly flakes and life brine about once a week. I have seen where some people have wrote that they are agressive and will attack other fish. I have personally never had a problem. my current bala is a healthy 8 inches, and is in a tank with small tetras and lifebearers and does not bother anyone. He speads most of his time swimming among a school of giant danios.

09-17-2005, 09:32 PM	#1
PBirdsong Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 565 Images: 1	Bala Shark Owners What all do you feed your Bala sharks? I'm trying to experiment with different types of foods. __________________ --Pete-- Photojournalist Fox 31 - Denver, Colorado 55gal Planted FW Cichlid Tank.

09-18-2005, 03:37 PM	#5
RoK Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,224 Images: 11	My bala eats flakes (regular & spirulina-based), pellets (algae & carnivore), frozen bloodworms & brine shrimp, freeze-dried tubifex, peas, lettuce, and algae. They do love their veggies. I'm sure they'd even eat fruits. __________________ Current fish (includes all 8 running tanks): Gouramis, polypterids, SA cichlids, convicts, rainbows, plecos, loaches, ACFs, a platy, tetra, & a Ctenopoma

09-21-2005, 10:51 AM	#7
buckshot Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ft. Belvoir, Va Posts: 28	I have had a bala in every community tank i have had, and they eat whatever. I feed mine mostly flakes and life brine about once a week. I have seen where some people have wrote that they are agressive and will attack other fish. I have personally never had a problem. my current bala is a healthy 8 inches, and is in a tank with small tetras and lifebearers and does not bother anyone. He speads most of his time swimming among a school of giant danios. __________________ Feel free to ask me any questions

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09-17-2005, 11:16 PM	#2
Protege Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 15	When I kept a Bala a long time ago, I'd feed it normal flake food, and the occasional frozen bloodworms (about once a week I'd say).

09-21-2005, 10:19 AM	#6
andywg Aquarium Advice Regular Join Date: May 2005 Location: Southend, Essex, UK Posts: 77	My 6 get an assortment of flakes, pellets, live river shrimp, live crickets, live bloodworm (jumbo and regular), live daphnia, frozen bloodworm, frozen daphnia, frozen mussles, frozen prawns, courgettes and cucumber.