Tropical Fish Treats

[andyboy!!]

Hi

I have been feeding my lil fishies on flake food since I have had them. What else can I feed them to vary their diet? And how much of this do I feed to them?

I've heard of frozen food, what is this? And bloodworm.

I have

Platys
Guppies
Coolie Loach
Danios
Betta

Thanks a lot
Andy.

 

[sparky_555]

You can get blocks of frozen brine shrimp and blood worm from most LFS's. You can also get live blood worm, but wait untill the more experienced members say aboyt tht, i'm not too sure.

 

[dwarfgourami]

All your fish will enjoy occasional live treats, say once or twice a week. These can be real live ones, if your lfs sells them, or frozen bloodworms, daphnia or brine shrimp, or Tetra do a brand of jellied ones (TetraDelica) which come in sachets, 3 flavours-bloodworm, daphnia and brine shrimp. I tend to use the jellied stuff, as its easy to feed the right proportion and pretty well mess free.
Your platies and guppies will also benefit from vegetables fed once or twice a week, like peas (ligthly boiled, deshelled and crushed), broad beans (d), sprouts (d), spinach or chard (lightly boiled and chopped), broccoli (d). Helps their digestion and also keeps them occupied.

 

[gems]

We fed our Pearl Danios on those TetraDelicia jellied bloodworms for a while, but found that the sachets were too big a portion for them to consume immediately, and alot of it sank and got stuck to plants and rotted causing us a few problems. We decided not to use it again, but I think it could be good if you have lots more fish than we did and they eat it all.

 

[dwarfgourami]

We fed our Pearl Danios on those TetraDelicia jellied bloodworms for a while, but found that the sachets were too big a portion for them to consume immediately, and alot of it sank and got stuck to plants and rotted causing us a few problems. We decided not to use it again, but I think it could be good if you have lots more fish than we did and they eat it all.

Oh, I never thought of feeding a whole sachet; that's what I like about them, that it's so easy just to feed what they will eat- mine eat it straight out of the sachet held in my hand. You can always peg any unwanted food and save it for the next feed.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

I just found those jellied bloodworms, thought they were great

Mine get a mix of
Flake (tetra pro, king british, hikari)
Algae Wafers
Catfish Pellets
Cichlid Pellets (hikari cichlid, hikari cichlid excel, tetra doromin)
Live food, bloodworms, daphnia etc
Frozen food as above
Fresh veg, peas, cucumber slices
Sinking food, tetra prima

well vexed you can't get the hikari stuff anymore, I'm close to running out and it's a lot of they're favourite foods

 

[samyboy]

fish allways love live food

 

[ash]

i've been experimenting!

put in tiny bits of bacon for my red claw crabs, it was gone before the crabs even smelt it! my barbs and dwarf gourami love it, also tried prawns and the same thing happened