I use blood worms for my Angels once every other day as a treat and nutritional supplement. They otherwise get Tetramin flakes and are very healthy. I use the Hikari brand of freeze dried blood worms because they contain encapsulated vitamins and nutrients. Try just a very few tropical flakes at a time until you get him used to eating them. Then keep him on the flakes with only blood worms as an occasional treat. The Tetramin flakes have been around for many decades and are nutritionally complete.
Sounds great. Thank you for responding. I want to make sure Bam Bam has the healthiest and happiest life.
I rode 2 busses each way just to get my Angels a treat of live brine shrimp. But I couldn't resist buying 2 baby completely silver baby angels...about the size of a penny.
Unfortunately, you don't get a bag full. For a buck, the bag looks plentiful, but when you pour them in the net to rince the salt off just before feeding, you fond that you have about a tsp which you just put in all at once with your filter turned off for 15 minutes. I usually get about 4 dollars worth and ask for seperate bags. I open the bags and reseal them at the top to add as much fresh air as I can and store them on the inside door of the refrigerator. They last that way for a few days. You can keep a larger supply in a quart of brine with the lid off. You can even feed them using a tiny bit of dry yeast outside of the refrigerator in bright light for about 30 minutes and then putting them back in the refrigerator.
No pics yet. They are doing well my adults swim up to them so close it looks like they are trying to smell them. The babies don't flee because they can sense that the adults won't harm them. My problem with getting you a pic right now is that they do flee from me to the back of the tank. They will learn that I am daddy in just a couple days after seeing the rest of the fish come to the front of the tank when I approach. I'll have my camera each time I approach just in case. I have to get a pic when they are at the front. My water is tinted a slight amber color from steeping peat moss in it to replicate their natural water from the Amazon river. The water is clean, just tinted with tannins.
I just got some pics. The 1st is one of the babies alone. Doesn't look very tiny...close up. The rest are my 4 adults.
They both look great. My camera is not as good as yours. Have you tried flake feeding yet?
I only give my babies live brine once a month, give them brine shrimp for one of their meals each day for 3 to 4 days. Then it's strickly flakes except for the 1 every other day treat of freeze dried blood worms.
