What You Feed Your Fish?

[Vin Swords]

Just wondering..

I feed mine.. Neutrafin max flakes , freezes dried blood worms. Hikiry cat fish pallets , hikiry algae wafers, tetra vegetable flakes. All together For every morning

and prawns OR mussels in the evening. And peas now and then..

How is it sounds.. And what you feed and when.. ?

 

[StandbySetting]

I feed Hikari Micro Pellets, Tetramin fry food, Inforsia, Mysis, Newly Hatched Brine Shrimp, Daphnia, Black Worms, Chopped Prawn and Chopped Mussel to my Ember Tetra's.

 

[KittyKat]

On a daily basis, any one of about 5-7 types of generic flakes (cichlid, colour, whatever other free sample I've gotten recently), small sinking pellets by Tetra, TetraPrima (because I got it for free), floating Hikari pellets or unbranded floating pellets: twice per day, as much as they can eat in 30 seconds. Also, 1/2 Hikari algae wafer per adult pleco: once per day.

1-3 times per week 1/2-1 large cube of live food (bloodworm, white mosquito larvae, black mosquito larvae, cichlid mix (shrimp, etc), beefheart, artemia, cyclops, some other stuff) instead of dry food.

1 day per week without any food.

Occasional veggies and live white mosquito larvae, + and household bugs which get themselves drowned.

The diets do vary depending on which species are in the tank. I find that the fish benefit from a variety of foods, probably because no single food can provide a good balance of everything the fish need.

Fry and young fish are sometimes "power fed", by which I mean that they can get fed protein rich foods 6-10+ times per day, but the amounts of food have to be minute (sort of everything gone in 5-10 seconds type of small) and the fish then produce a lot of waste, so daily water changes are needed just to remove the waste and keep nitrates low. I would never give a diet like that to an adult fish because it is very likely to harm them. From my own experiments, fry on this diet will grow up to twice as fast as fry on a normal adult diet.

 

[thisguyek]

I feed mine the tetra flakes and some kind of floating crisp alternating twice daily. every other day i through a sinking pellet for my pleco. Once in a while I'll throw some frozen blood worms in.

 

[drobbyb]

Currently my fish are on a diet of Tetra Min. I feed once per day and I skip feeding one day a week at random. Fish are cold blooded creatures and they require less food than what the fish food manufacturers recommend. Any excess food eaten by the fish will only be turned into more waste.

There is a myth that overfeeding your fish makes them grow faster. I have learned that it isn't so much the quantity of food as it is the frequency of water changes.

There have been many debates about the quality of food fed to fish. Some say that most of the commercially available flake is not too good, however having bred and kept fish for many years I find that the commercially available stuff is great for feeding what it is designed to feed: tropical fish. It has all the necessary nutrients and energy that tropical fish need, and with a major brand that has lots of turnover you are ensured to get fresh food that is nutritious and balanced. This is ideal for the community aquarium when fed with frozen foods once or twice a week.

Specialized foods are great for single species tanks or tank mates that require the same nutrition and for conditioning for breeding or raising fry. These foods can sometimes be more expensive, be harder to find, or need to be cultured. But they provide other key elements to the equation that make them worth the extra effort if they are needed.

If I were to offer advice to a new fishkeeper I would say to feed regular fish flake until they had figured out how to feed and how much since flake food doesn't spoil as fast as some of the more specialist foods and can be easily removed in case of overfeeding. Then, after mastering flake, try adding some frozen.

 

[BigC]

Home cultured Livefoods
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[james_fish]

King British Natural flakes, king British mini pellets, king British algae wafers, tetra variety wafers, spirulina, aqua one algae wafers, cucumber, frozen bloodworm.

Edit: and tetra bloodworm mix

James.

 

[minnnt]

I like the King British stuff. The flakes are brilliant. Hardly any mess and they don't pollute the water as much. Other main food is Tetra Prima, Tetra Multi Wafers, Tetra Tubimin, Tetra Pro Colour, King British dried bloodworm. Also feed frozen live food; bloodworm, daphnia, myosotis. Also have some very fine frozen BBS for fry.

 

[markandhisfish]

zm premium granular food , ocean nutrition spirulina flake , chopped prawn and daphnia

 

[Farrant91]

TetraMin flake, King British catfish pellets, and a mix of frozen bloodworm, daphnia, and brineshrimp.

 

[FishFreak95]

For my sajicas,guppy fry, Wardly cichlid flakes, frozen bloodworms, crushed Wardly cichlid pellets, chopped shrimp, and Hikari Bio-gold mini size.

For the cichlids in my 55 gallon, mosquito fish, cichlid pellets, shrimp, Night crawlers, TetraCichlid Cichlid sticks, and guppies killed by my sajicas.

 

[fishguy2727]

New Life Spectrum Thera+A exclusively, unbelievable results.

 

[Marto666]

What are the best floating granules?

 

[mattbleasby]

TetraMin flake, King British catfish pellets. Then once or twice a week they get Frozen Bloody Worm, And the occasional live set of either Blood or BBS. But thats only maybe once a month or so.

 

[fishguy2727]

Why do you need it floating?
Why does it have to be a granule?