Feeding

[AngelMax]

What do you feed???

Is it better to vary their food ?
My fishy friends sometimes get stringy poo....my LFS it is down to diet.

 

[Undawada]

I feed hikari micro pellets, hikari sinking algae tablets, hikari sinking catfish food, frozen bloodworm, frozen daphnia and frozen brine shrimp. I am looking at getting some worm cultures soon so I can feed live. I always drop in algae tabs, and I alternate between dry and frozen.

 

[pnyklr3]

Mine get mostly frozen. Bloodworm, brine shrimp, beefheart, plankton, krill, and a mix of greens. I also toss in some fresh tuna fish and shrimp when we have those for dinner (all unseasoned, of course). I occasionally use flake and sinking pellets.

 

[AngelMax]

So when flake food says 'Complete Food' it's wrong?? How mis leading!!!!!

Surely it's better to vary isn't it??

 

[Undawada]

I believe in feeding a variety of foods. I also feed dry foods, since they are a "complete food" and have all the nutrients a fish needs. Dry foods will, however lead to constipation and bloating if feed exclusively. In nature, fish don't eat the same thing over and over. A variety of frozen/live foods, supplemented with a good quality complete dry food is the best way to go for my money.

edit: should also add I drop a slice of zucchini or cucumber in once and a while too

 

[Teelie]

Algae wafers, frozen bloodworms, two types of flake food, sinking variety wafers, tablets and occasionally freeze-dried bloodworms. I'm going to look at growing daphnia and greenwater as well once I find a place to set up. I plan to start feeding them cucumbers and other veggies as well. Usually I feed them the frozen stuff once every 1.5 weeks or so. A single block goes a long ways even with nearly 30 fish and countless snails to feed between my various tanks.

 

[BigC]

I feed my fish mainly live foods, vinegar eel, newly hatched brineshrip, microworm, grindalworm, whiteworm & wingless fruitfly. Occasionally I would feed frozen Bloodworm and brineshrimp.

 

[snowyangel]

The more varied diet, the healthier the fish imo. Just like a human wouldn't benefit from just eating bread and water all their life, a fish wouldn't strongly benefit from just flakes. I also find when i feed my fish a variety, especially frozen live foods, that it induces spawning which in my mind is a good note of a healthy/happy fish.

So you want the food list? Wew, okay you asked for it:

- 2 different brands of tropical flakes
- spirulina tabs and the sticks
- discus pellets, cichlid sticks and also the pellets
- freeze dried blood worms and tubifex worms
- frozen live daphnia, zoo plankton, blood worms, brine shrimp
- algae tabs
- earthworm flakes
- betta pellets
- zuchinni, cucumber, romaine lettuce
- and live snails for the loaches

These foods don't obviously go to all fish, but its what i carry. I could take a picture of it all if you want.

 

[FishEnthusiast]

I mainly feed variety pellets that came with my fish tank, greens such as cucumber and zucchini, and frozen bloodworms. I stay away from freeze dried foods to help with preventing constipation. I believe all of my fish benefit from a varied diet.

 

[IMCL85]

I feed my fish all kind of different stuff. Some times flake some time worm and other. This way they dont get bored of one type of food. Just like us human fish need some obtion on food too. If we eating hamburger 7 days a week for 1 years I bet after a year u be freak out when u saw a hamburger

 

[SarahBravo]

Sera Flake (not much though), Sera veggie cichlid pellets, Sera meaty cichlid pellets, Hikari Excel omnivore cichlid pellets, Hikari betta pellets, Sera omnivore granules, Sera micro granules, Hikari spirulina tabs, Hikari sinking catfish tabs, Delicia bloodworm in jelly, frozen bloodworm, frozen daphnia, frozen ciclid mix (chopped fish and shellfish), frozen Malawi mix (veggies and small amount of protein), live bloodworms, live daphnia, cucumber, and crab pellets for the snails and shrimps. They are better fed than I am!

 

[ScoutCarcer]

Mine get goldfish flakes mixed with tropical flakes and a algae wafer every now and then.

 

[Angry_Platy]

Variety of Foods......daily the livebearers get Hagens Livebearer Mix

Daily the cichlids get a low protein cichlid staple food

Weekly the livebearers and loaches get bloodworms/brine shrimp.

Daily the catfish/fish get algae tablets.

Every second day the catfish get cucumber/zucchini/brocolli etc.

And that doesn't include what plants and algae they eat in the tank

OH.....the fry get fed 3-4 times a day with micropan (basically small finely ground protein and vitamin rich flakes)

 

[black angel]

my tropicals get flake as the staple but for variety i give a lot of dried foods such as daphnia to keep the gut moving, frozen and dried bloodworm, tubifex.
i give them cucumber, mainly for the plecs though and lightly boiled lettuce which the guppies love. occasionally some tomato and cut up grape.they also like cooked rice.
when i had the goldies they had loads of stuff including cooked rice, brocolli, oranges, apple, flaked fish, loads of stuff.

 

[Isis_Nebthet]

krill, mysis, brine, and bloodworms into the bumblebee tank. Same plus jumbo min in the predator/cichlid tank. Earth worms from time to time along with live blackworm if I can get them. Rosy reds or ghost shrimp as I buy them. The tank with the clown knives and dempsey gets 250 rosy reds every two weeks plus some jumbo min which they refuse to eat (they were raised strictly on live food before I got them).

Commumity gets nutrafin flake and tetra granules. I throw in some occasional string algae, zuccini, or any of the frozen food above.