Common Foods

[Spader]

I am trying to feed my livebearers something besides flakes. I feel horrible. So can you guys tell me what plants, live food, etc that u fed your fish. Just say what kind of fish, the food, and experiences/disasters. Thanks!

 

[snowyangel]

My live bearers will eat: Freeze dried tubifex worms(can be messy), freeze dried blood worms, algae or spirulina tablets, brine shrimp pellets and frozen live bloodworms and brine shrimp. I find the frozen food makes the least mess because every fish loves to eat it so there's never any leftover.

 

[dwarfgourami]

My livebearers eat jellied bloodworms, brine shrimp and daphnia- the TetraDelica brand. I find this is handy as it is easy to give the right quantities, you can actually handfeed it, and it makes less mess.

They also eat peas, broad beans, spinach, chard, sprouts, broccoli with enthusiasm. Slightly less enthusiastic about very thin slivers of apple, pear and banana (I only feed fruit rarely because of acidic content), but they go down. No takers at all on cucumber.

I lightly boil the veggies and deshell the peas and broad beans, and chop up or crush all the veg. Pea is the absolute favourite.

I feed two meals a day and have 1 fasting day a week. Usually flakes, but two meals a week the flakes are replaced by TetraDelica and two by veggies.

 

[guppymommy]

snowyangel and dwarfgourami, what kind(s) of live bearers do you have?

I feed my guppies fish flakes, freeze dried bloodworms, and tropical granules. My guppy fry I feed with freeze dried blood worms and baby bites. I haven't tried any fresh or live food yet, but my guppies are doing great. I do have some elodia in the tanks that I have seen the fish nip at now and then, so maybe they eat it, or are eating snail eggs off it or something. Anyway, the adults have brilliant color and the fry are growing rapidly.

 

[dwarfgourami]

snowyangel and dwarfgourami, what kind(s) of live bearers do you have?

I have guppies and platies.

 

[GuppyDude]

iv fed my guppies chopped earth worms. just boil them in water, chop em up to the right size, rinse the nasty insides off and drop in the tank. it works best with earth worms rather than night crawlers because the night crawlers have a tuff outer skin thats difficult for the fish to digest. i recall we did argue about parasites about a year or so ago when i brought this up, but i assure you that boiling the worms will kill the worm and anything hitching a ride.

 

[Spader]

Thanks guys! Im triyng mirowaved peas right now ill tell u how it goes....


It went great! They ate lots and my preg platy ate the most!

 

[snowyangel]

snowyangel and dwarfgourami, what kind(s) of live bearers do you have?

I have 3 kinds of platies, dalmation, white and balloon mollies and guppies.

 

[Fadi]

I aswell reccomend frozen brine shrimp pellets, all my fish like it. Also i usually give it to them once a day between the flakes.