On (12 Aug 96) John Dailey Rambled On  To DAN LAFLIN...
 > JD> pretty interesting as I've never seen a fish grow quite so rapidly!
 > I had a pair in a 60 gal once. I measured em after each died, they were 8
 > and 9 inchs long Tin foils  will grow big, given room and plenty of food,
 > they also do well with some vegetarian stuff.
 JD> You mean like carrots, lettuce and stuff?  Wow!  Although I have to
 JD> admit, the guy I got shoves about 5 shrimp pellets in his mouth at a
 JD> time... it's quite a sight!
   No not carrots, I besides  shrimp,  Meaty flakes, and such as
   spiriola? (sp?) and flakes  of a vegetarian  mix.
    From one of my books:
   Barbus schwanenfeldi
  This active fish needs space and plenty of GREEN matter. It is a avid
  consumer of DUCKWEED.
  Thereso it does best on a diet that has green matter/vegetarian,
  then a diet of alot of "meat"  not that it cannot eat meat,
  but it  probably prefers and digests plant matter best.
  Suggest you check for pellets/flakes made from
  plant matter  to feed m sides the shrimp pellets,
  I fed mine a varied diet,  not too heavy on the "meat" side.
  Native, it eats pretty much underwater plants, as above notes it
  loves duckweed.
  Doesn't sound like a Pirhana type of fish huh? ;-)
 
 
... Are you telling me there's a Donatello virus too?
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