Foods For Mollies

[jarmado]

hi all,

any good recommendations on food for mollies?
i currently use TetraVeg but they sink quite fast and my mollies are not fast enough to chase them.


iJay

 

[donna123]

hi mine like
cucumber,spinach,cooked defrosted prawns frozen shrimp brine, daphnia,tetra pro crisp flakes,
i think thats everything, i give them a different type of flake on different days so they dont get fed up.hlh

 

[AMS]

Mollies need large amounts of greens in their diet so supply lots of spirulina, blanched spinach and lettuce, and "sea weed salad". The sea weed salad is just dried green marine algae, its my mollies favorite food! be sure to use just the green algae, not the red. Also a veggie-clip is useful for feeding the spinach, lettuce, and sea weed.

Also supplement their diet with meaty foods such as bloodworm, brine shrimp, tubifex, and other similar foods.

 

[jarmado]

now i know why they are munching on my plants.
thanks for the advice.
the lettuce and cucumber, is it just the ones from the grocery?
nothing special to do with them, like boil them?

 

[Luke_e]

iJay. For cucumber i just cut it to size, place it in a cup of hot water for a minute and then i weigh it down using some plant weights. If you dont have weights you can a)push it into the substrate, b)put it in a cup of hot water and leave it over night (obviously the water will cool), and this should help it sink.

 

[jarmado]

iJay. For cucumber i just cut it to size, place it in a cup of hot water for a minute and then i weigh it down using some plant weights. If you dont have weights you can a)push it into the substrate, b)put it in a cup of hot water and leave it over night (obviously the water will cool), and this should help it sink.

thanks very much.
i will try this tonight.

 

[Annastasia]

Blanching or steaming veggies works very well. It softens them up enough so the fish can get it. Livebearers can't really chew, remember. Another one that isn't mentioned here (!) is Zucchini. My Livebearers go crazy over that. The easiest way to feed all these is with a veggie clip. That way, you don't have to put it on the bottom and the fish can eat it a bit easier.

 

[bucsfan914]

wow thats really cool i didnt kno you could feed them veggies to! is that just for mollies or will guppies and cories eat that to?

 

[jarmado]

Blanching or steaming veggies works very well. It softens them up enough so the fish can get it. Livebearers can't really chew, remember. Another one that isn't mentioned here (!) is Zucchini. My Livebearers go crazy over that. The easiest way to feed all these is with a veggie clip. That way, you don't have to put it on the bottom and the fish can eat it a bit easier.

cheers!

 

[Annastasia]

Any Livebearers can eat veggies. It's good for all of them, just like it's good for you. My Variatus Platies love zucchini. I'm not sure about the Cories...but you could give it a go.

 

[bucsfan914]

alright cool....personally i love cories i have 4 peppered right now and they all swim around together

 

[jarmado]

thanks all!

 

[jarmado]

they do not like the lettuce leaf so will be trying the cucumber...

 

[wendywc]

Besides the foods already listed, mine also like algae wafers (they peck at them even after they sink to the bottom) and bloodworms.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Further good livebearer foods include: peas (alltime favourite with my lot!), broad beans, broccoli, sprouts. I boil all these lightly, take the shell of the pea or bean, chop or crush lightly. My guppies love it.

As for cories, they don't seem to care for rabbit food at all- also, they would find it harder to get into as they have much less ability to chew than livebearers; their method of eating is more like Lady and the Tramp ingesting spaghetti! Bloodworms, daphnia and brineshrimp work best as cory treats IME. And livebearers love those too.