Varying My Fishes Diet

[Fire_an_Ice]

Been browsing and searching the forum for ideas on feeding. I want to get away from a diet of flake and pellet interspersed with occasional bloodworm and have found various references to lettuce, peas and cabbage...

I'm after a definitive answer (or as definitive as it's possible to be) and also some reccomended methods of preperation - should lettuce be cooked, broken up etc? Already know about peas (I think - Cook 'em, shell 'em and mush 'em)

Any advice and suggestions would be much appreciated

F&I B)

(Oh Danny Boy, i hear the pub, the pub a-calling )

 

[dazcoops]

depends on what fish you have to what they will eat, depends what food they are used to it can sometimes be hard to suddenly change the diet and keep them eating. if you do plan to introduce a new food do it graddully with their old food. why dont you want to use the fish food you buy in the shops it usually contains all the stuff they need. do you use frozen food?

 

[Fire_an_Ice]

Been happy so far with what I've had so far...but been researching into swimbladder and constipation problems, and a prolonged diet of flake is one of the possible causes...Want to introduce other forms of food slowly, in order to make sure that all my fish are happy and well fed, and not going to get constipated (on the theory that prevention is a sight better then cure)

Got Guppies, neons, Barbs and Cory Catfish...

F&I
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[dazcoops]

are the fish bloated or do they have any lumps or dips on them around the stomach area?

i would say use frozen food buy a few different packets from the shop, blood worm is good because it helps their immune system.

iv never made my own food but iv heard its best to cook lettuce leaves.

 

[dwarfgourami]

You probably won't get the corys to take much interest in a vegetable diet; they are more interested in a meat diet. Mine get bloodworm or jellied daphnia or brine shrimp twice a week instead of their usual catfish tablets. Guppies, and probably barbs too, do benefit from veggie meals now and then to provide roughage. I do peas or sprouts (prepared as the peas), also spinach or chard (lightly boiled+chopped); also very thin, tiny slivers of apple, pear or bananas.

 

[Fire_an_Ice]

Outstanding Thanks folks...

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