African Butterfly Fish food

[POLARBEAR0871]

I just bought a female ABF I don't get outta school till 430 and that's when all the pet stores close. So my question is can I feed baby farm raised crickets to my ABF if not what could I feed it???

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Anyone.

 

[DavidAl]

I've never kept African Butterfly fish, but I do know they prefer live foods, at least initially. Like most fish, you can slowly wean them off by mixing other foods in with the live.

I think you're okay feeding the crickets. They are surface dwellers so whatever you feed will need to float or sink very slowly.

David

 

[kylecj221]

I've heard of people feeding them crickets. Mine likes some frozen foods like bloodworms. I prepare the worms for the apistos in the tank but he likes to swoop down and grab a mouthful! He also loves floating cichlids pellets. I work at petco and the ones there always respond to eating the pellets if not anything else.

 

[POLARBEAR0871]

Thnx I feed them freeze dried shrimp but I've been thinking about feeding them live food but in scared to cuz I just recently bought 2 fire bellied newts and one of them got ate