Foods for Ameca Splendens?

Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:13 am

I just got my Ameca Splendens about a month ago and they are just getting over an ich infection, I don't know if that has anything to do with it, (I am doing maintenance with Aquarisol)...

...but they won't eat anything I give them. However they do eat snail eggs, rotting plant pieces, algae, lemna (duckweed), no flake food or dried algea tabs though... I tried boiled lettuce and broccoli like I read but nope.

I have them in a quarantine tank and they ate part of a worm (from my compost bin) I gave them but they decided to let it go. I put in a blob of hornwort (the pine tree looking floating plants) and they ate half of it!!!

What am I supposed to feed these guys???

Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:39 pm

Hi Joel,
Sounds like your trying everything. At least they are eating Duck weed and algae. they should start to get Hungry again soon. Keep doing what you are doing. You migth try some frozen blood worms or live brine shrimp if you have it.
Herb

Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:20 pm

Hi Joel,
Another food that usually gets fish eating is Peas. Take canned or frozen Peas (Thawed) and squeeze the insides out for them. I feed this to most of my fish a least twice a week. The go nuts over it.
Herb

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:45 pm

Thanks! I'll try squished peas. I fed them black tubifex worms yesterday and they ate those but they weren't too crazy about them. I fed them mosquito larva that I netted from a sitting bucket of water in my patio area and that was the first thing they went nuts for.

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:29 am

Hi Joel,
How are the Amecas doing? Better I hope !
Herb

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:17 pm

Dragonlord wrote:

Hi Joel,
How are the Amecas doing? Better I hope !
Herb

They have shown no signs of ich for a few days now. They are eating tubifex worms and I am giving them to them less often to try to get them to eat other stuff.

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:22 pm

sounds like everything is going ok with them then....i feed all my fish frozen blookworms and they cant resist it..

i havent heard of the frozen pea idea, so i might have to try that myself!

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:37 am

Mine eat just about everything. I feed a variety from flake to DIY beef heart. Smile

Dustin

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:46 pm

What is not Generally known is that most Goodied have a long digestive track for a fish and so need a good variety of foods but because of this long digestive track they do need some crude protein in there diet. This is where frozen garden peas cooked as for the table but then crushed and fed to the fish can help a lot to keep them healthy. I realised this way back in 1975 when I sent the first consignment of Goodea attripinis to a friend Gunter Entlinger in Hamburg Germany. Well to cut a long story short not long after I went over there to their DGLZ Convention. At this Convention I was approached be a couple of Scientists from the Hamburg University I wont drop names but they are well known. Anyway they had apparently had these fish before but had no success in keeping them for long and were keen to find out why mine were so good. After a half day session at the University the next day we decided that the only thing that it could have been was the Peas in the diet. I rest my case as they had no futher problems with Goodieds
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