Alternative Foods

[Triumph]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could suggest some alternative foods to to feed as well as flake.

I already feed frozen daphnia once or twice a week, and have tried cooked peas which didn't seem
to go down too well! Not sure I cooked them long enough though?

I have 4 red wagtail platys and 8 lemon tetras.

Thanks in advance.

Billt the Fish

 

[promithius]

with the peas, you have to cook em, peal the skins off and mush em up, then feed it hope the take to them, my dads fish eat peas off my fingers, its so much fun!

 

[oneponygirl]

It took a while for some of my fish to get used to peas but now they all like them when done as the previous poster mentioned. I also feed frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp. In the summer I used to leave my stocktank out on my deck on purpose and then collect the mosquito larvae to feed them, too. I was also able to get live daphnia from a local store but it's not local to me anymore and I haven't found a similar place near here. I also keep a couple of different kinds of flakes on hand so that even if I don't have time to make up something else I can give them something a bit different in their diets.

 

[markaj04]

try frozen bloodworms

 

[mark.w.jones]

Blood worms may be bit big for tetras to eat. I feed frozen fish eggs and my harlequin rasboras / pygmy cories love them.

 

[helsekia]

have you tried frozen daphnia or brine shrimp either frozen or live.My fish including my tetra go mad for chopped prawns and mussel.

 

[Triumph]

Thanks for the replies, I think I'll give the peas another go but make them mushier and perhaps the brine shrimp as they already like the Daphnia.

Bill the Fish

 

[BigC]

Livefood every time. Flake alternate days.

 

[Mizhunt24]

Wow really? My fish loved the peas! I have tiger barbs and bala sharks.