Please Detail What You Feed Your CPD’s Here!

[Jimbo]

Hey. I’m trying to find the best food for my CPD’s based on popularity, breeding success and interest in the food. I’ve tried crushed TetraMin Crisps, TetraMin Baby, Tetra Fresh Delica Daphnia in Jelly, live Daphnia, frozen Bloodworm and frozen Baby Brine Shrimp. They don’t really go nuts for any of these, when i’m by the tank anyway. So i’m thinking whether to try other things. Does anyone know what they eat in the wild? Anyway, could you please list what you feed yours, how often, how they take to it and whether your fish have bred. Thanks!

[MacedonianLion]

Here is what i uze for the big ones:
live baby brine shrimp
and all off those foods under this in a “spice mill”:
Tropical – Vitality & Color – flake food
Tropical – Discus Gran – granulat
Tropical – VegeTabin B – tabs, krushed
JBL – Grana – mini granulat
JBL – Novo Tab – tabs, krushed

And for the fry:
Hobby – Protogen – live infusoria
Interpet – Liquifry 1
Sera – Micron
live baby brine shrimp

[katkin]

The adults get freshly hatched baby brine shrimp, Hikari micro wafers, frozen daphnia, all of which I rotate from day to day.

The fry are fed on Liquifry #1 to start with, microworms and bbs. fry are fed 3-4 times a day.
K

[symmo]

@MacedonianLion wrote:

Here is what i uze for the big ones:
live baby brine shrimp
and all off those foods under this in a “spice mill”:
Tropical – Vitality & Color – flake food
Tropical – Discus Gran – granulat
Tropical – VegeTabin B – tabs, krushed
JBL – Grana – mini granulat
JBL – Novo Tab – tabs, krushed

And for the fry:
Hobby – Protogen – live infusoria
Interpet – Liquifry 1
Sera – Micron
live baby brine shrimp

Never thought of using a spice mill great idea!!
my tank is nearly cycled and them my CPD’s will be going in so this thread is great keep the FOOD inputs coming
TY
Symmo

[chr15_8]

i feed my adults on

adult brine shrimp – 6 times a week
a couple of drops of liquifri no.1 – once a week

fry
liquifry no.1 – 6 drops a day
baby brine shrimp – 2 times a week
daphina – i put a bag in from the lfs and they seem to have breed (so most of the baby daphina gets eaten but some make it threw and have babies etc) this has been working for about 3 weeks

making this a sticky as it gets asked a few times and is helpfull for new cpd owners

chris

[atlantis_child]

@chr15_8 wrote:

i feed my adults on

frozen bloodworm – once a week
adult brine shrimp – 6 times a week
a couple of drops of liquifri no.1 – once a week

fry
liquifry no.1 – 6 drops a day
baby brine shrimp – 2 times a week

making this a sticky as it gets asked a few times and is helpfull for new cpd owners

chris

And those that are atill trying to breed… :wink:

[L777]

Adults (just got fry from these guys after about 3 months):
– Daily microworms (“walter worms”)
– Hikari micropellets
– and whatever they forage off the java moss that fills the tank

Fry (mind you they’ve only been free swimming for 3 days, but they are pretty much round swimming bellies with eyes and a tail):
– O.S.I. brand “Micro-Food” — a powdered infusoria substitute
– and I assume all the infusoria I can’t see that grow from the moss and Micro-Food.

I am planning to add liquifry #1 when my lfs order gets in. Also considering live BBS for variety.

If anybody wants to know about raising microworms, let me know. They’re really simple, and the CPDs go nuts over them.

[atlantis_child]

Hikari Micro Wafers

Sometimes baby brine shrimp, but too much hassle for more than about once a week. My parents don’t like the stink, and the filter is loud because there’s so little water in the thing, and it drops from higher than the tanks.

I wonder though…can they even see those itsy, bitsy things? :roll:

– Atlantis

[Jimbo]

I feed mine mainly on the Hikari Micro Pellets now. I have the Wafers aswell but they are still a little large for CPD mouths. They go absolutely mad for them and surface to get them all the time. Plus they aren’t just one type i.e. different ingredients for different granules (http://www.hikari.info/tropical/t_02.html) so it’s good to know the fish are getting varied nutrition.

[steveh28]

i am feeding mine new life spectrum small fish formula. they are doing well on that, usually 5-6 days a week. occasionally i put some frozen cyclops-eez in for them and they go crazy over that. i have not had a spawn yet, and have either 4m – 2f, or 3m-3f, not sure about one of them.

[L777]

Another food item: my shoal of F1s are in a bushynose pleco breeding tank. When I add pelletized tiny sticks of brine shrimp, papa bushynose comes out and starts working on them. As he does (he kinda gets into it), a cloud of brine shrimp pellet particles and “dust” float up into the water — the young CPDs swarm the water right above the pleco and dart around snapping up all the bits. Good natural source of red for their fins, too (although they attack live BBS and microworms with just as much fervor)! Reminds me — time to change the microworm culture…

[lisa.perry75]

I’ve tried to feed my cpds crushed flake, live daphnia and tubifex but they just seem to spit it out/ignore it. Am I doing something wrong?

I’ve had a bit of luck with JMCs high protein granules… Has anyone tried the frozen bbs? Micro worms are on order…

[chr15_8]

@lisa.perry75 wrote:

I’ve tried to feed my cpds crushed flake, live daphnia and tubifex but they just seem to spit it out/ignore it. Am I doing something wrong?

I’ve had a bit of luck with JMCs high protein granules… Has anyone tried the frozen bbs? Micro worms are on order…

how long have you had them?
do you know if there wild or tank breed?

chris

[lisa.perry75]

I’ve only had them about a week or so… But I’ve found the answer! I found some frozen bbs in the freezer and they go nuts for it!!! I’ll be happy when they are a bit fatter…

I am not sure where they are from tbh. I have a feeling they are wilds. I tested the water as they were put in all quite fast, but not reading any ammonia, nitrite and the nitrate is really really low.

[altaaffe]

I fed my wild specimens primarily on daphnia & whiteworms although they also took a little Tetrapro veg. All the fry were raised in home made infusoria followed by Hikari first bites, tetra baby & then crushed Tetrapro colour. All the raised fry are now happy to live of flake.

Following the addition of the first set of adults to the wild specimens, the wild fish have started to ‘copy’ the younger fish and have taken flake, however, they are always first there when live food is given.

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