Can I Feed My Fish....

[1234-fishy-freind]

frozen white bait, i buy it for my blue lobster, all it is is small fish, sprats i think and i wonderd if i could cut them up into small peices, defrost and feed them to my fish like angels and firemouths
thanks

 

[Puffdaddy]

You sure can, that is if the fish eat it. If they don't eat it in a few minutes remove from the tank.

 

[phillipchandler]

Hi

Hope I can post this question here. I have two black moors, I read you can feed them peas (saw the post so thats good), but I read the following info from http/www.firsttankguide.net/food.php

"Fresh foods include meats and vegetables with minimal processing. Many fish will go wild for small (relatively) bits of beef, poultry, seafood, or game meats, but you don't want to cook these foods in most cases. A lot of fish will also enjoy bits of fresh vegetable matter, such as raw potato, squash, zucchini, pea, bean, apple (without the peel or seeds), and spinach. Again, as with live foods, you need to make sure that the diet you have selected will meet the nutritional needs of your fish."

Basically I wanted clarification about the above, and that blackmoors do indeed each the above types of food. Im a bit of a worrier, would hate to feed them something and kill them. Plus is it best to feed them once daily at the same time ? Our local shop said feed them every other day ? The fish seem to go crazy everytime we go near the tank, they will go up to the top front right , where we feed them, fighting each other to get the food ? But I read that Blackmoors are greedy little scavengers, so they could really NOT be hungry, just after a snack.

Any help is appreciated. Im looking at getting fresh spinach, and Im assuming that if I cut them up finely they the fish will eat them.

 

[BigC]

Yeah used Sprats for feeding Piranha in the past.
I removed the head and tail and skin cut up into cubes or slithers and rinse under the cold tap.
Just remove any uneaten food stuffs afterwords so as not to foul the tank
Regards
BigC

 

[CFC]

To be honest the fish you have would be far better off on a diet of quality flake and pellet food with some frozen or live food like bloodworm and daphnia a couple of times a week.
While there is no doubt they would eat pieces of whitebait the fish you keep are not really built for processing flesh from oily fish such as sprats, so while it probably wouldn't do them any harm it could lead to water quality issues when the food passes through them. If you did want to give them a meaty treat once in a while then pieces of prawn (raw or cooked) or cooked mussel meat are relished by most fish and are substantially better foods nutritionally than whitebait.