Fish Diets?

[Bambi211]

Hey, Umm I wanna give my fish all the energy and nutrients i can, i wanna make them as healthy as possible and boost their immune system if possible.

Someone told me you could give them garden peas? is that right?

My fish are only on flake food and tablets they seem to be getting quite bored with this, I sometimes put like red worms in, they enjoy that. But thats just a treat now and then, and i dont have many fish in my tank so cant give to much food cos it gets left on the bottom.

Any advice??

My dad was advised to give apple, but they havent touched any of it so ?

Any info would be helpful.

Thanks

xxx

 

[Jazzzz]

apple may be to accidic dunno

try brocoli and courget

what fish are they

i feed algea wafers, daphinia, bloodworm, tubeflex worm and flake to the community or at least did RIP litttle fishies.

 

[kevinthecow]

Real sorry bout your fish man.



forgive and forget, thats what they say.

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Hey, Umm I wanna give my fish all the energy and nutrients i can, i wanna make them as healthy as possible and boost their immune system if possible.

Someone told me you could give them garden peas? is that right?

My fish are only on flake food and tablets they seem to be getting quite bored with this, I sometimes put like red worms in, they enjoy that. But thats just a treat now and then, and i dont have many fish in my tank so cant give to much food cos it gets left on the bottom.

Any advice??

My dad was advised to give apple, but they havent touched any of it so ?

Any info would be helpful.

Thanks

xxx

I wouldnt really give them apple, IMO its a bit hard for them.

There is a variety of different foods you can feed your fish and Flake is always a good base to give your fish. Ontop of flake there is:

• Pellets
  Bloodworms
  Earthworms
  Cucumber
  Banana
  Shrimp
  Brine Shrimp

The list goes on, the best thing is to find the food which is best for YOUR fish, as different fish have different dietary requirements.

 

[blodhi74]

Todays commercial fish is quite advanced and balanced with essential nutrients.
Alternative food provides good balance for the fish.

 

[andywg]

Flake an dpellet food is designed to have the right balance of nutrients in it. If you can get a fish to take flakes then just feeding that should provide all the nutrition it will need.

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Flake an dpellet food is designed to have the right balance of nutrients in it. If you can get a fish to take flakes then just feeding that should provide all the nutrition it will need.

But is it not nice to give your fish a variety?, Maybe not for the actual nutritional benefits but eating the same food everyday gets repetative no?

 

[blue acara]

Like Ace has said find out what your fish naturally feed on. Variety is the spice of life as they say... A balance of high quality flake and frozen foods is good. Tetras eat a lot of aquatic invertabrites for example. Some fish like plecos need more plant matter in their diet... algae tablets, spriluna flake and fresh veg is good for them. Flake and pellet food should be about 50%-75% of their diet imo.

 

[andywg]

But is it not nice to give your fish a variety?, Maybe not for the actual nutritional benefits but eating the same food everyday gets repetative no?

It is nice for you, the fish doesn't really care all that much. It gets food and that food is designed to give them the same nutrition as their varied diet would. No one is ever going to completely recreate that natural diet in an aquarium.

Flake an pellet are the staple of all my FW fish and the SW fish that will take it.

 

[Ace Of Spades]

But is it not nice to give your fish a variety?, Maybe not for the actual nutritional benefits but eating the same food everyday gets repetative no?

It is nice for you, the fish doesn't really care all that much. It gets food and that food is designed to give them the same nutrition as their varied diet would. No one is ever going to completely recreate that natural diet in an aquarium.

Flake an pellet are the staple of all my FW fish and the SW fish that will take it.

I suppose, Do SW fish take flake? Never really known what they eat xD

 

[Tolak]

A quality flake or pellet will provide the trace vitamins & minerals that fish need. Which commercially prepared food depends on the fish you keep, as does any other foods, such as vegetables or live/frozen foods.

 

[andywg]

I suppose, Do SW fish take flake? Never really known what they eat xD

The tang, trigger and clowns take flake. All these and the burrfish take pellets.

The morays, porky and frogfish only take prawns and muscles and the like, so these are soaked in a nutritional supplement before feeding (essentially to give them the same nutritional value as flake food).

 

[drobbyb]

But is it not nice to give your fish a variety?, Maybe not for the actual nutritional benefits but eating the same food everyday gets repetative no?

It is nice for you, the fish doesn't really care all that much. It gets food and that food is designed to give them the same nutrition as their varied diet would. No one is ever going to completely recreate that natural diet in an aquarium.

Flake an pellet are the staple of all my FW fish and the SW fish that will take it.

I would like to add that if I feed my breeders nothing but basic flakes, they don't breed. When I mix up the diet including flakes, pellets, frozen and the occasional live food they breed like rabbits.

Varied diet is better in my case.