Saturday, August 18, 2012

How to make a Beefheart mix formulation for Discus fish







Beef Heart is the main staple food and protein for my discus, whilst the Beef Liver acts as vitamins and minerals like Iron, Copper, Folic acid, Vitamin A. The Spinach is used for digestible calcium, fibre and other useful properties. Fish Liver oil is used as Omega-3 fatty acids and as other vitamins like A & D. Finally, Andrew's Pro-growth is the main concoction of vitamins and essential proteins like growth promoter. I did not add garlic or red colour-enhancer and/or any other additional vitamins/minerals as I believe that they do not need it. The former being that I do a lot of water change and the latter being that my water is hard (high trace of calcium). This Beefheart mix is designed for discus as young as 10 days old till 7-8 months old. My feeding regime is 5 times a day, the following time that they are being fed are at: 7 AM, 11 AM, 3 PM, 7 PM and 11 PM. Water changes are done 1 hour after each feeding, or whenever they finish their meal. Each water changes are done in 20-40%, thus equating to a total of 100-200% water change. Juvenile discus require ammonia, and nitrite free water in order to grow large and healthy. A vast array of diet is also the key to success! These juveniles are still being raised in a bare bottom tank, fed 5 times a day with various food, including my own Beefheart mix, Marine Formula One flake food, Hikari Tropical Discus Bio-Gold pellet food, and Australian Freeze Dried Blackworms. I have been looking for some other food like, Ocean ...

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