A Better Diet For My Fish?

[Brahmza]

I have a 55g tank stocked with tinfoil barbs, tiger barbs, german blue rams, zebra danios, dwarf gouramis and a pleco. So far I've only been feeding them flake and pellet foods, and I'm looking to feed my fish a more well-rounded diet. Any suggestions on foods I could feed these fish? Bloodworms? Brine? Thank you in advance!

 

[techen]

Bloodworms are a good start but make sure there live, I've tried to feed my fish freeze dried stuff and it's useless.

 

[Tuxyu3]

Frozen and fresh bloodworms would be great for the GBR's, Gourami's, Danio's and Pleco (depending on species), i do not have any experience with the Tinfoils (if only i had the tank) or Tigers but i would imagine they would love it to. I would also recommend Daphnia/Brineshrimp. One thing i would recommend you stay away from with these fish is Cyclops, it is tiny and makes a right mess, best left to the small fish IMO.

 

[jocie1976]

I culture my own white worms (live) and ALL of my fish go nuts for them. I also feed frozen brine shrimp, blood worms, glass worms and brine shrimp. Some of my fish like the freeze dried blood worms. I also use flakes, pellets and algae wafers.

 

[JenJ]

I've yet to find a food my tiger barbs don't like! I feed a variety of flake, granules, wafers, freeze dried bloodworm (they still love it) and frozen bloodworm, brine shrimp and daphnia.

Oh, and dried tubifex - once they worked out the cube was food, they went mad picking at it.

 

[Brahmza]

I picked up some freeze dried bloodworms and algae wafers - the tiger barbs and rams love the worms, and everything loves the algae pellets. Going to pick up some frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp today. Thanks everyone!

 

[Mikey1]

I'm looking to feed my fish a more well-rounded diet.

if your using a good quality flake food, then your already feeding them a complete well rounded diet

on a side note.....how many tinfoils do you have? a 55 gallon tank is very small for tinfoil barbs

 

[Brahmza]

I'm aware of the tinfoils, I have 3, but they are still pretty young, and not even 4 inches yet. When they reach 5, I'm giving them to my brother who has a 90g tank.