Fun food!

[CazRJ]

Hi I have a community tank with Cory's, minnows and tetra oh and a nerite snail. And I have a paradise fish in his own tank.
I've only been fish keeping for a yearish and I'm wondering what people feed their fish as special "treats", they get flake food ect but looking for some little extras I have give them every now and then

Thanks

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

Yesterday I ordered these little disks of food called "FunTips" by Tetra... I'll get them in a few days and maybe I can report back to you on them once I try them out.
As for right now, I give my community tank a big chunk of cucumber every two weeks or there-abouts. My plecos and pearl gourami love it.

 

[nik_n]

I usually feed my angelfish, gouramis and panda garra frozen blood worms. Its a good treat and it promotes breeding. I also feed them live baby brine shrimp and sometimes frozen cyclops. I also feed my plecos and panda garra veggies such as zucchini or green beans.

For my fry tank I feed a mixture of live baby brine shrimp, frozen cyclops, micro-worms and crushed flakes.

 

[Colin_T]

Frozen Marine Mix (prawn, fish & squid blended up and frozen in cubes), brineshrimp, bloodworms, daphnia, mysis shrimp.

Live brineshrimp, daphnia, mozzie larvae, white/ grindal & microworms, aphids, ant eggs, weevil larvae

 

[On_a_dishy]

I always have a bag of frozen prawns in the freezer. I grate one when it's still frozen, and my gouramis and betta go nuts for it.

 

[CazRJ]

I usually feed my angelfish, gouramis and panda garra frozen blood worms. Its a good treat and it promotes breeding. I also feed them live baby brine shrimp and sometimes frozen cyclops. I also feed my plecos and panda garra veggies such as zucchini or green beans.

For my fry tank I feed a mixture of live baby brine shrimp, frozen cyclops, micro-worms and crushed flakes.

Do you cook the green beans?

 

[CazRJ]

Yesterday I ordered these little disks of food called "FunTips" by Tetra... I'll get them in a few days and maybe I can report back to you on them once I try them out.
As for right now, I give my community tank a big chunk of cucumber every two weeks or there-abouts. My plecos and pearl gourami love it.

Oo sounds fun!

I usually feed my angelfish, gouramis and panda garra frozen blood worms. Its a good treat and it promotes breeding. I also feed them live baby brine shrimp and sometimes frozen cyclops. I also feed my plecos and panda garra veggies such as zucchini or green beans.

For my fry tank I feed a mixture of live baby brine shrimp, frozen cyclops, micro-worms and crushed flakes.

Oh I give them frozen blood worms and brine shrimp but haven't tried Cyclops ?

 

[CazRJ]

I always have a bag of frozen prawns in the freezer. I grate one when it's still frozen, and my gouramis and betta go nuts for it.

Ooo that's a cool idea!!

 

[CazRJ]

Frozen Marine Mix (prawn, fish & squid blended up and frozen in cubes), brineshrimp, bloodworms, daphnia, mysis shrimp.

Live brineshrimp, daphnia, mozzie larvae, white/ grindal & microworms, aphids, ant eggs, weevil larvae

Some great idea there to try! Stupid question but do you buy all of them??

 

[Colin_T]

The frozen foods can be bought from most pet shops. Frozen prawn and white bait can be bought form a supermarket in the seafood section, or from a fishing shop in the bait freezer.

The live food can be cultured at home. The following link tells you how to culture some live foods and how to hatch brineshrimp eggs.

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

www.fishforums.net

Aphids are collected from the roses when they appear. I just tap the rose stem and the aphids fall into a 2 litre bucket I hold under the flower.

Ants can be farmed and you collect their eggs or dig up an ant hill in the back yard and get mugged by them, then steal their eggs.

Weevil larvae can be grown in buckets of rice, corn, wheat, bird seed or any type of flour. Just leave a container of flower open for a week and then put a loose fitting lid on it. After 6 months it will be full of weevil moths and you can sieve the flour to get the larvae out of the flour.

 

[nik_n]

Do you cook the green beans?

I would normally just microwave them because it saves time, and then I dip them in freezing water, so they float down. You could boil them it would be safer but it would still get you the same results.

 

[CazRJ]

The frozen foods can be bought from most pet shops. Frozen prawn and white bait can be bought form a supermarket in the seafood section, or from a fishing shop in the bait freezer.

The live food can be cultured at home. The following link tells you how to culture some live foods and how to hatch brineshrimp eggs.

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

www.fishforums.net

Aphids are collected from the roses when they appear. I just tap the rose stem and the aphids fall into a 2 litre bucket I hold under the flower.

Ants can be farmed and you collect their eggs or dig up an ant hill in the back yard and get mugged by them, then steal their eggs.

Weevil larvae can be grown in buckets of rice, corn, wheat, bird seed or any type of flour. Just leave a container of flower open for a week and then put a loose fitting lid on it. After 6 months it will be full of weevil moths and you can sieve the flour to get the larvae out of the flour.

Thanks for the advice, I have an aphid problem so that is perfect!!!!

 

[CazRJ]

I would normally just microwave them because it saves time, and then I dip them in freezing water, so they float down. You could boil them it would be safer but it would still get you the same results.

I'll give them a go!