Snuffleupagus
Aquarium Advice Regular
I keep reading various peoples' claims that a fish will have a stomach approximately the size of one of its eyes -- I really am beginning to doubt this. I'm assuming this little tidbit of wisdom is claiming that the stomach is about as big as a sphere whose circumference matches that of one of their eyes. In my short time keeping them, I've seem many a fish eat, within a couple minutes, a much, much greater volume of food than would conceivably fit in such a space.
I've tried not to overfeed them, of course, but some fish do a better job getting to food than others, and the others still need grub too. For instance, I recently aquired some live blackworms, and had to put a really impressive amount in there before any even fell past the 3 small zebra danios and 3 small tiger barbs to where the clown loaches could get at them. Even after every fish in there had eaten about five times the size of its "eye" in blackworms, they kept zooming around like creatures possessed, looking for more. I've never seen those clown loaches so unconcerned with their own safety, as they dug around in the substrate in a mad worm-crazed frenzy. I'm gonna have to try to raise a blackworm culture, I think. I'd always heard that fish love live food, but I had no idea to what extent. Plus it's really fun to watch them suck them down like spaghetti.
I've tried not to overfeed them, of course, but some fish do a better job getting to food than others, and the others still need grub too. For instance, I recently aquired some live blackworms, and had to put a really impressive amount in there before any even fell past the 3 small zebra danios and 3 small tiger barbs to where the clown loaches could get at them. Even after every fish in there had eaten about five times the size of its "eye" in blackworms, they kept zooming around like creatures possessed, looking for more. I've never seen those clown loaches so unconcerned with their own safety, as they dug around in the substrate in a mad worm-crazed frenzy. I'm gonna have to try to raise a blackworm culture, I think. I'd always heard that fish love live food, but I had no idea to what extent. Plus it's really fun to watch them suck them down like spaghetti.