Do You Give Your Fish A Specific Diet?

[james_fish]

I've always cared as to what goes in my fish.

4 days of the week I give them a mixture of

• Crushed King British natural flakes
  Tetra Pro Colour multi crisps
  King British Mini Pellets
  Crushed dried River Shrimp
  Crushed Tetra Algae Pellets

2 Days of the week I give them either Tetra Bloodworm mix or Tetra Algae mix
and then one day of the week I give them Frozen Bloodworm or Frozen Brine Shrimp.

This might seem like a bit of a fuss just to feed my fish (who in honesty will eat anything) but like I said i've always liked to give them a good diet.

Does anyone else go the extra mile to feed their fish?
What do our fish actually need in our food thats so important?
Is feeding them a varied diet like this better than feeding them completely on live?

James.

 

[Akasha72]

I've recently changed my feeding pattern and looking at my fish tonight it's doing them good! They're zooming around, the cories are spawning and it's great fun to watch. I used to give them flakes and pellets twice a day and frozen blood worm once a week but nit now.

Now they have King British flakes and the cories get sinking pellets in a morning and on an evening they get a mixture of dried tubiflex, frozen daphnia, frozen blood worm (not all at once, I mix it up depending on the day) Yesterday they had Daphnia, tonight they've had bloodworms. I've not seen them as active as this for a while.

I've changed it because my guppies and platies were stealing all the food and the cories got anything left over. By giving tubiflex, daphnia and bloodworm I know my cories are getting enough to eat

 

[dbanner]

I feed mine every other day. I have all south American cichlids which are an Oscar, 2 jack dempseys, 2 jewels a severum and a Texas. They have cichlid pellets (medium hikari gold pellets) as their main food source and then frozen bloodworm, frozen shrimp or krill once a week, usually a saturday. They won't eat anything else. I don't feed dried bloodworm anymore as its not really enough nutrients in it for them.

I also feed my kribensis and corys in 1 tank in the same way, they have flake and then sinking pellets and my snakeheads in my other tank that are very keen on frozen prawns and bloodworm

I never feed any of my fish every day as it will result in overfeeding. My cichlids would eat all day if I let them lol

 

[james_fish]

It's amazing how much they can actually eat in a day, I definitely overfeed my fish some days. But I always follow up with an extra water change for that week to keep nitrates at bay.

I never really bother with live food anymore, it's not very practical for me.

James.

 

[dbanner]

Mine only have live if it's bloodworm and they only get that very rarely. More cost efficient getting frozen, cheaper and lasts longer

 

[ZoddyZod]

Tetra pro crisps - colour
Tetra pro crisps - regular
Tetra pro crisps - veg

Frozen bloodworm
Frozen mix
Frozen greens

Hikari algae wafers
Tetra carnivore wafers

Tetra Prima
Tetra Prima mini granules

Brocolli, cucumber, mini corn, pepper

.....most of the above served twice a week, every week.

 

[james_fish]

pepper

Never tried that Zod, what fish do you feed that to?

James.

 

[drobbyb]

Food does play a big part in your fish's activity/health/color. That being said, you can over do it. Over the years I have run the gambit with feeding a wide variety of specialist foods to just the basics. In my experience, water quality and tank health plays a much more important part. Feeding a high quality FRESH (compare labels and manufacture dates) tropical flake or pellet in the case of larger fish (buy smaller sized bins for home use unless you go through large amounts regularly) supplemented by fresh or frozen foods twice a week is just fine. Skipping feeding one day a week randomly also is a good idea. Of course, if you have fish that have specific dietary requirements you need to meet those requirements. Don't leave those guys out! Hth!