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Swedish Tanks

By Henrik, added on 02/01/2007

Baits tested in fish tank

I have had Carp in a 500+ litre aquarium for a few years now, and naturally I have tried lots of different feeds in it. I have divided the fish’s response into four categories. Very good means that they fight for every single piece of it (uprooting plants, dislodging the pump, digging in the gravel... ...). Good means that they eat it, but are in no real hurry. Some pieces will remain if buried. Indifferent means that they do not seem to notice the "food" item at all. May suck it in, but not more often than the gravel. Negative means that they actually avoid it - in the extreme they hide in the other corner of the tank 'till I have removed the "food".

Very good

Most expensive boilied specials
Most home made boilied specials with good ingredients
Halibut pellets
Suspending koi pellets
Corn-steep pellets
Carp pellets (all flavours tried so far)
Trout pellets
Hemp pellets
Lumpfish eggs
Smoked salmon
Sweetcorn
Chopped worms
Casters
Bread dipped in liquid foods
Shrimps/prawns
Bloodworms
Daphnia
Brine shrimp (Artemia Salina)
Mussels
Small live fish (e.g. Guppies!)
Assorted meats and sausages
Cambozola
Cheese
Paprika Hemp
Frolic - dog food
Wasabi Spirulina-wafers (fish-feed)
Lemon

Good

Lettuce
Green Peas
Maggots (actually were afraid of them until they learned to eat them)
Whole live worms (afraid of large uns)
Tangerine
Chick peas
Floating koi pellets
Bread
Peanuts
Snails
Carrot
Groats
Wheat
Cashew nuts
Borlotti beans
Nearly all types of plants that would look good in the fish tank!
Pig feed pellets
Potatoes
Rice
Lime (liked smell but not taste, still ate it eventually)

Indifferent

Cucumber
Pear
Apple
Cabbage

Negative Reaction

Banana-tutti boilies
Fruit ester flavoured 50/50 boilies - they stayed away until I removed it 1 hour later!
Oranges
Pineapple chunks - attracted to smell, but repelled by taste

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