Fish Food

[StarOrbs]

I know fish food is pretty self explanatory but I want to ask it anyway. Any suggestions for types of fish food for tetras, cories, platies, guppies and Gouramies?

Another thing I've been confused about is when you introduce new fish to a tank you are suppose to quarantine them but, in what do you quarantine them?

 

[sylvia]

Standard quality flake, pellets, catfish pellets, bloodworms - live, frozen or freeze-dried, brine shrimp - live, frozen or freeze-dried, daphnia - live, frozen or freeze-dried and the ocasional blanched greens - zuchinni, lettuce, some cucumber and also sometimes a mashed pea or shelled pea... Any of the commercial tropical fish foods will be taken by all those fish. The cories need something that sinks though and gouramies need to be able to get to the food as they are rather slow, shy eaters.

 

[Tolak]

Sylvia covered the food thing really well. For a quar tank you get another, usually smaller tank. 10 gallon tanks work well for smaller fish, 20 gallon for larger. You need the usual heater & filter gear, less decorations is better, as you can observe the fish easier.

Tolak

 

[StarOrbs]

Do you think you could organize that better all those dashes are screwing me up lol..

 

[sylvia]

Standard quality flake,
pellets,
catfish pellets,
bloodworms - live, frozen or freeze-dried,
brine shrimp - live, frozen or freeze-dried,
daphnia - live, frozen or freeze-dried
and the ocasional blanched greens - zuchinni, lettuce, some cucumber
and also sometimes a mashed pea or shelled pea...
Any of the commercial tropical fish foods will be taken by all those fish.
The cories need something that sinks though and gouramies need to be able to get to the food as they are rather slow, shy eaters.
A varied diet is always best.

As for the quarantine tank, you can use any container (not necessarily a tank) and with small fish like yours you need not use anything larger than 5 gallons. Though 10 gallons is prefferable. You need a heater and airstone and a small sponge filter will come in handy. Leave the sponge filter in an established tank for a week before you need to quarantine a fish so that it is colonised by beneficial bacteria. If you don't use a filter in the quarantine you'll need to do daily water changes and monitor water params. Don't put any live plants or inverts in the quarantine tank. It can be bare-bottom or have a thin layer of gravel. A few plastic plants and/or a ceramic pot are good hiding places.

 

[StarOrbs]

How's this list of food..

Freeze Dried Brine Shrimp 0.35 oz.
San Francisco Bay Brand Freeze Dried Bloodworms 1/2 oz.
Omega One First Flakes 1 oz.
Ocean Nutrition Formula One Small Pellet 3.5 oz.

 

[ladynaoko]

for the record - I personally do not recommend freeze dried food. The stuff is like cardboard and has almost no nutritional value

 

[StarOrbs]

What do you suggest then? heh

 

[nitro]

What do you suggest then?

Frozen or live.

 

[Great Lakes]

Lobster tail, six medium shrimp, a nice 8oz fillet of pollock, cod, or whatever else the market has fresh, and a handful of scallops. Then one tablespoon garlic extract. Blend all very well to the consistency of applesauce. You may need to add a small amount of water to blend it well.

Then add in a half a package of that dried seaweed stuff you get in the oriental section at the grocer, along with a medium size can of your favorite flake food.

Spread the mixture thinly on a couple of cookie sheets and freeze. After frozen, remove and with a large knife, chop it in to small pieces. Put into quality freezer bags, and feed as needed.

It seems very expensive, but this will feed my 180 gallon tank for nearly a year.

GL

 

[StarOrbs]

Sounds good for fish but is there anything wrong with using freeze dried food??

 

[cometcattle]

Sounds good for fish but is there anything wrong with using freeze dried food??

I've heard it's harder for them to digest. That being said, I own a container of Hikari freeze-dried bloodworms. Hikari products are loaded with vitamins.

Another good flake food is the Omega One Veggie Flakes.

 

[StarOrbs]

Whats better for the list of fish I'm planning on getting bloodworms or Brine Shrimp. Top of page.

 

[WILDER]

Get both and some daphnia helps fish to digest there food.

 

[StarOrbs]

Planning on getting
Hikari Bio-Pure Food Daphnia 0.42 oz
Aquarian® Sinking Shrimp Pellets for Bottom Feeders 1.5 oz.
Hikari Bio-Pure Food Brine Shrimp, 0.42 oz
Hikari Bio-Pure Food Bloodworms, 0.42 oz
Hikari Micro Pellets 45 gram