ug... Mines actually grown quite well on a diet of Cardinal Tetras! and they are double the price of neons
That's expensive food Ben. I have a small dam near my place where I go to catch mosquito fish ( gambusia ). Try to find some in your area. Cheaper than cardinals or buying live food and my eye biter and my polystigmas love them.
ha ha! when i lived with one of my mates a few years ago we used to keep a large plastic crate in the backyard filled with water. my mate would then catch billions of gumbusia and glass shrimp every 6 weeks or so and stock up the tub. this "gambusia pantry" was used to feed "murray" his pet cod. murray fortunately outgrew his 4ft fishtank in the end.... he was a dead boring pet!!
i would love to have the room to build an aquarium large enough to grow a murray cod to full size. Canberra zoo has a monster cod in a huge tank, but you are right Patrick it doesn't do much.
theres a full size murray cod and saratoga at an aquarium shop near my place, both in four foot tanks, its so sad. personally, i like gambusia, as a tank fish, except for there aggressive tendancies, i will go get some and breed em, so i know they are free of disease. even though i intend to get rid of my fish and chnage my tank around!
I just went to my local creek to find some, none at all, nothing to be correct just lotsa snails! but i did bring some plants home, HAHA
