What Food Is Good To Feed?

[rocknurworld2006]

what food is good to fee tetras and rasboras to get females ripe of eggs and to get them in good prime condtion for breeding??

 

[kribensis12]

Probably something from New Life Spectrum . Google it.

 

[shroob]

Live foods are meant to be good conditioners. (Bloodworm, whiteworm, daphnia etc)

 

[Shrimper]

I feed my harlequin rasboras aquaone mirco pellets every day and frozen bloodworm about once a fortnight, i'm not trying to breed them but they keep laying eggs which then get eaten by the corys.

 

[rocknurworld2006]

anyone else any contributions

 

[three-fingers]

IME, it's best to feed a variety rather than just one type of good food.

I'd recommend frozen bloodworm and/or frozen brineshrimp 2-3 times a week, along with some kind of algae or vegetable based flake also 2-3 times a week, and the rest of the time feed a decent all-round tropical flake food.

I wouldn't worry about which brand too much, focus more on storing it correctly. For example if you buy a really big tub of something, separate maybe a months worth of it into a smaller resealable tub for frequent use and freeze the rest of it. I'd personally try to avoid the big bags of value flakes unless you know they are relatively fresh.

I would avoid the live food that comes in the little bags, I've had trouble with parasites from these in the past, brine shrimp from these is safe though - since they live in brine I cant imagine any freshwater parasites surviving.
If you want to condition them with live food it's safest to culture your on in a tub in your garden or something, literally just leave a small bucket of water with a handful of dirt or some straw in the sun for a week or two and you will have a great supply of mosquito larvae, daphnia and copeopods . You should feed these to the fish when they are in the breeding tank.