What Do You Feed Your Fish?

[Proxo]

This has prob been asked many of times on here but i'm new so that means i can ask right? lol.

Just wondering what types of flake, frozen ect you feed your fish & what kind of fish you're feeding?

 

[ZoddyZod]

This has prob been asked many of times on here but i'm new so that means i can ask right? lol.

Just wondering what types of flake, frozen ect you feed your fish & what kind of fish you're feeding?

you should always provide the most suitable diet for whatever fish you are keeping. Generally speaking providing a variety of foods is important, so dont just rely on one type all the time.

Each week I feed my fish frozen daphnia, mosquito lavae, tubifex worms, 'greens', shelled peas, 3 types of flake (veg, 'colour enchancing' and regular, cucumber, algae wafers & blood worm pellets. I have a little daily chart to remind me which food to feed each day so I can make sure I'm varying their diet.

 

[moochy13]

i mix between normal cheap flake, tetra pro flake 'discs', frozen bloodworm, frozen daphnia, freeze dried tubifex, catfish pellets, tropical pellets, cucumber and hikari algae discs. whenever i feed in the morning i always put in a pinch of catfish pellets, a pinch of tropical pellets, a pinch of either type of flake and an algae disc. in the evening a pinch of whatever flake i didnt use earlier, a pinch of catfish pellets and one of bloodworm, daphnia or tubifex. with the daphnia and tubifex i use half a block as theres loads in them. every 3 or 4 days i put a piece of cucumber in.

 

[Proxo]

Cool, was justing wondering what people feed there fish..
I'm on 2 Different Flakes, Frozen Bloodworm, Cucumber, Prawns.

I've heard of people feeding green, yellow & red bell peppers to there pleco's/fish before too but i've never tried it.

 

[ZoddyZod]

Cool, was justing wondering what people feed there fish..
I'm on 2 Different Flakes, Frozen Bloodworm, Cucumber, Prawns.

I've heard of people feeding green, yellow & red bell peppers to there pleco's/fish before too but i've never tried it.

there's loads of things you can feed plecs as long as they are prepared correctly. Carrots, courget/zucchini, pumpkin, apple.....

 

[Proxo]

Cool, was justing wondering what people feed there fish..
I'm on 2 Different Flakes, Frozen Bloodworm, Cucumber, Prawns.

I've heard of people feeding green, yellow & red bell peppers to there pleco's/fish before too but i've never tried it.

there's loads of things you can feed plecs as long as they are prepared correctly. Carrots, courget/zucchini, pumpkin, apple.....

Pumpkin, now you're going to make me put a halloween carved out pumpkin in my fish tank

 

[benjoey]

was just wondering how long you keep veg such as courgette in the tank for? I have just got a bn plec so will have to start feeding some veg other than peas, but I normally feed flake, frozen bloodworm and frozen artemia on alternate days

 

[ZoddyZod]

was just wondering how long you keep veg such as courgette in the tank for? I have just got a bn plec so will have to start feeding some veg other than peas, but I normally feed flake, frozen bloodworm and frozen artemia on alternate days

some will say 12hrs, some will say 24 but I think generally speaking you dont want it in the tank for more than 24 as you run the risk of letting it foul up the water.

I add mine at around 7pm, then remove the following day at about 5pm. This gives the plec chance to demolish it and my snails a chance to find it. Have found my cichlids nibbling on it as well.

 

[moochy13]

mine dont usually last very long. last time i put 2 bits in at mid-afternoon time, and when i got up in the morning (5am) they were just cucumber rings. which is when i guess they've finished with it.

not sure how long you can leave it, but certainly i'd say no more than 24 hours.

 

[zoogy]

i'm new too so i don't know how to shell peas. Do you mean remove the pod that peas grow in or take the thin papery coating off the individual peas?

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[moochy13]

indeed, literally peeling each individual pea.

i thought the same as you when i first heard

 

[markandhisfish]

hikari pellets , prawn , peas,crickets,mealworms,mealworm beetles and any bugs etc that are stupid enough to come into the house

 

[mark4785]

I feed my German Blue Ram (omnivore) a range of flakes manufactured by Ocean Nutrition. Some contain quite a high concentration of protein, whereas others contain vegetable extract. In addition, I feed defrosted bloodworms every 5-7 days.

The other fish in the tank also consume the flakes I offer but my Dwarf sucker-mouth catfish purely eats green/brown algae and Tetra Tabimin (high protein sinking tablet).

 

[james_fish]

Mixture of two types of flake, mini pellets, algae wafers, frozen bloodworm & Veg. And live foods as a very rare treat.

James.

 

[Proxo]

I've heard of people feeding earthworms (from your back garden) to cichlids, mostly larger cichlids..
Do you think that is good or even safe for the fish?