I recently took a trip down to my local pet store and noticed they've gotten a lot more frozen foods in, including tubifex, bloodworms, krill, brine shrimp, squid, and some mixes they've called 'tropical mix' and 'pacific mix'. Upon reading the ingredients on those, it looks like just a mixture of shrimp, squid, krill, and other things.
As far as live food is concerned, they have mealworms, waxworms, phoenix worms, crickets, and superworms.
I occasionally feed my paddletail and CO a freshly shed mealworm, but they exist mostly on a diet of Hikari frozen bloodworms every few days. I'd really like to introduce more variety to their diet and have been considering buying some crickets that I can gut load, but have never really have much success keeping them when they're not being fed without them escaping. Not really pleasant, but I'm still willing to try if there's a better way of keeping them than in a semi-closed margarine tub. I don't have any local fishing stores, so nightcrawlers and earthworms are unfortunately out of the question, though they'd work perfectly. And I certainly don't trust grabbing some of the ones that can be found outside after it rains.
On an attempt of frozen tubifex, neither of them really took to it. I tried brine shrimp years ago and it was never eaten. I was considering trying the krill, but not if it has no nutritional value to speak of to it, or isn't good for them.
So, what sorts of things listed here would be good for them to try out?
As far as live food is concerned, they have mealworms, waxworms, phoenix worms, crickets, and superworms.
I occasionally feed my paddletail and CO a freshly shed mealworm, but they exist mostly on a diet of Hikari frozen bloodworms every few days. I'd really like to introduce more variety to their diet and have been considering buying some crickets that I can gut load, but have never really have much success keeping them when they're not being fed without them escaping. Not really pleasant, but I'm still willing to try if there's a better way of keeping them than in a semi-closed margarine tub. I don't have any local fishing stores, so nightcrawlers and earthworms are unfortunately out of the question, though they'd work perfectly. And I certainly don't trust grabbing some of the ones that can be found outside after it rains.
On an attempt of frozen tubifex, neither of them really took to it. I tried brine shrimp years ago and it was never eaten. I was considering trying the krill, but not if it has no nutritional value to speak of to it, or isn't good for them.
So, what sorts of things listed here would be good for them to try out?