i read somewhere that its good to feed a variety of food fo Fhs, is it ok to feed Fhs mealworms? if yes, like how often...once a day?

hell yeah, variety is the best!, most people use live feed as a treat like 2-3 times a week. But its all up to you on how you want to treat your flowerhorn, for a feed, you should use a everyday staple like pellets. It gets messy with live feedings so make sure any uneaten food is taken out.

This post has been edited by chrscap: Aug 3 2008, 07:06 PM

mealworms are good, earthworms, crickets, are a few. I would be carefull with feeders as they carry disease sometimes. I give them once every couple months TOPS. Maybe 2-3 times a year just for fun. I throw my culls in tehre though. Raw shrimp and bloodworms are good choices also.

Live ghost shrimp best there is.

For sure. I tend to use a variety of pellets and frozen food and once and a while "treat" them with something wild. I actually have a video of my largest flowerhorn Charles eating a green frog. If you want to you can check it out on youtube. Just search for flowerhorn decapitates frog. Should be by Brynjatheninja. It was pretty fun watching him too. He sucked it in and after about 2 min. spit it back out without a head. Later on that night he ate all but the legs and in the morning those were gone too. Lol.

Pretty sick ur water must have been trashed after that!

Pretty sick ur water must have been trashed after that!don't feed 2 much meal worms there casing and white gook that comes out of ehem trash ur water.make sure that the earthworms don't have a bellyfull of dirt 2.feeding feeders is fine if u can quarinteen and gut load them.pregnant females guppies are the best to feed ur flowerhorn they are usually not sick or infected by bug or disease as easly because there amunity is high because pregnant and the eggs and fry inside here add protien.do not feed allot of feeders at once to much protien one or 2 a day.if u can get live ghost or glass shrimp get em.

are the mealworms and earth worms at bait shops okay to feed? also how to you prepare them to feed your fish...do you remove the heads of mealworms and gut the earthworm to remove the dirt?

thanks for the help:)

Yes the bait shop worms are great u usually don't have to gut them because they are not eating in those containers cause they are refrigerated.if u dig them up gut them .meal worms feed whole.

thanks sqwat for the reply!

No prob bro!