Is It Possible To Feed Frozen Food Too Often?

[eschaton]

Because I have a tank with two Dwarf Puffers. I always have a supply of frozen bloodworms on hand. However, they can't come close to eating a whole cube, so I end up splitting the remainder between my GF's nano tank with dwarf frogs, a betta, and BBGs, and my community tank.

This is becoming an issue in my community tank. I would say around 50% of the cube ends up in there - generally 5 to 6 times per week. One of my fish (now in QT) has been constipated for over a week (none of my attempts to clear the blockage have worked), and some other ones have looked a bit too chubby lately too.

So, can you feed frozen too much? Is it really better to let your tanks have a regular selection of flake-type dried foods and pellets? What do people think?

 

[Davo86]

frozen bloodworm especially is very protein based so yes in short too much will cause your fish to become bloated, to compensate for this you can feed lots of green foods and even vegetarian flake food,

i can't work out what a BBG is but the betta, puffers and frogs will require these frozen foods as the bulk of thier diets, most community fish however really only need it sparingly

 

[raptorrex]

Because I have a tank with two Dwarf Puffers. I always have a supply of frozen bloodworms on hand. However, they can't come close to eating a whole cube, so I end up splitting the remainder between my GF's nano tank with dwarf frogs, a betta, and BBGs, and my community tank.

This is becoming an issue in my community tank. I would say around 50% of the cube ends up in there - generally 5 to 6 times per week. One of my fish (now in QT) has been constipated for over a week (none of my attempts to clear the blockage have worked), and some other ones have looked a bit too chubby lately too.

So, can you feed frozen too much? Is it really better to let your tanks have a regular selection of flake-type dried foods and pellets? What do people think?

have you considered cutting the cube up before you defrost it? its what i did when my newts were small. peas and cucumber/courgettes will help with the constipation.

 

[eschaton]

i can't work out what a BBG is

Sorry, Bumblebee Gobies

 

[benniebru]

u could try to dethaw the cube in a cup of water then once it gets soft split it in half that might work

 

[DarkEntity]

You need to vary their diet, bloodworm should be a treat not a stable diet. Puffers also should have crustacians in their diets.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

"Is It Possible To Feed Frozen Food Too Often?" -I think it depends on the fish and what frozen foods you are feeding the fish, frozen foods vary a great deal in their nutritional content and digestability depending on what the frozen food is exactly. I think frozen foods are more nutritious than their dried versions (i.e. frozen/fresh daphinia is better than freeze dried daphinia) and are good for adding variety in a fishes diet, but as with anything you can always feed a fish too much of anything.
Not all fish have the same dietry requirements, so you should research into your individual types of fishes dietry needs too- you may be feeding them too much or too little of certain foods etc.

If some of your fish have constipation, then the best thing to do would be to cut back on feeding them a great deal (perhaps even stop completely- don't worry, unless your fish are fry, most fish can easily go for a couple of days without food) and only feed your fish veg like blanched chopped up spinache or chopped up de-shelled cooked pea's and frozen daphinia if you need to feed them anything at all until their constipation has passed. Do not feed the fish dried foods or high protein foods at all until their constipation has gotten better.

 

[eschaton]

u could try to dethaw the cube in a cup of water then once it gets soft split it in half that might work

Generally speaking, you're not supposed to thaw and refreeze food meant for human consumption, so I assumed the same was true for animals.

I typically float it in each tank for a bit, shake off some worms, and move on to the next one.

You need to vary their diet, bloodworm should be a treat not a stable diet. Puffers also should have crustacians in their diets.

The puffers also eat pest snails from my main tank from time to time (mainly ramshorns). They live with a few cherry shrimp, but show no interest in munching on them.

My tanks also get flake, sinking pellets, and algae wafers from time to time, but it seems like the only things which eat the latter two are the corys, shrimp, and pest snails.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

If you use a sharp knife, you should be able to shave or slice off slivers of food off the frozen block of fish food without having to de-thaw it or anything .

 

[OohFeeshy]

If you can get hold of live, you could try freezing it yourself in smaller portions?