Food Experimenting

[ladynaoko]

Before Steve the Betta came along I was feeding my fish a rather boring diet of flakes and Tetra Plecomine tablets. Steve obviously wouldn't have any of this so I found myself starting to feed him a cocktail of various things to keep him happy. At the moment he's going mad on cockles & prawns (anything like that I get fresh from the fishmongers in the morning. I used to get some funny looks asking for 1 prawn there) as the shops down here don't have anything besides tablets & flakes right now (in a week or so my favourite store may have some new frozen & freeze dried stuff in so I can go to them for stuff).

It's no good me buying a Betta mix tablet/flake food of some sort because Steve HAS to be hand-fed otherwise he doesn't notice the food and it's all gone by the time he finds it.

What foods have you experimented with?

 

[gadazobe]

Have you tried frozen bloodworm? Most fish love this and there's always a frenzy at feeding time when they have it. (you can get it at most lfs's or petsmart)

 

[ladynaoko]

I live in the back end of nowhere here, I have quite a few stores here but they only sell flakes & pellets.

The only place they do sell frozen stuff currently has nothing in & are waiting for the order.

 

[gadazobe]

What about mail order. Give a large order and store it in the freezer.

 

[ladynaoko]

I would actually do that, but my freezers are near to bursting as it is

I'll just have to wait till the lfs gets stuff in & feed him on his prawns & cockles till then.

 

[Annastasia]

I have fed flakes, granules, brine shrimp, daphnia, and bloodworms.

 

[Connor333]

I have fed my fish insects such as ants and spiders. I have also fed them freshwater shrimp from the pond in front of my house. They really love those!

 

[Angry_Platy]

My fish get flakes and bloodworms.....flakes everyday, once a day and bloodworms every 10 days or so...the catfish get bottom dweller tablets and cucumber (which the platies like to eat)

 

[Doggfather]

mine get flakes, bloodworm, brine shrimp (live and frozen)

 

[heresmike]

My fish hate flakes! Or is it me that hates to feed them flakes because it makes a mess in the tank?!?

I think the original intent of this post was to find out what "experimental" food we feed our fish. I stick to food that's designed for fish. Mine get Wardley's slow sinking crumbles, frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia, and mysis shrimp. I see no reason to experiment with other kinds of foods.