Which Brand Of Food

[jimmyringo]

Hi,
I'm reasonably new to this.I have 2 Dwarf Gourami,4 Cardinal Tetras and 3 Serpae Tetras in a 30 UkGal tank.They get along fine although the Gourami are quite aggresive at times.
But i'm wondering if anyone has any preferences in which brand of food they give their fish.I use King British flake food and King British Freeze Dried Bloodworm.I've never tried any others.I see a lot have colour enhancers etc.What do you think?Are there any that you would recommend?

 

[Gouken]

I use TetraMin tropical Crisps and feed them a variety of blood worms, brine shrimp and a vegetable diet gum drops, all my fish like them.

 

[maximinimus]

I use a mixture of dry foods, the main ones are:

TetraPro

TetraPrima

King British Catfish pellets

Cichlid Gold

Other than that lots of fresh lettuce / cabbage / courgette and frozen foods

I used King british flake when I first started fishkeeping, I found it clouded up the water something rotten if you rehydrated it before feeding though.

 

[poohbear1]

I'm reasonably new to this.I have 2 Dwarf Gourami,4 Cardinal Tetras and 3 Serpae Tetras in a 30 UkGal tank.



Corect me if Im wrong but it is best to keep either 1 Dwarf Gourami per tank, or several. Males can be quite aggressive to each other, so if 2 are kept, they must have a large tank with plenty of hiding spaces. They prefer to have some floating plants.

 

[jimmyringo]

Corect me if Im wrong but it is best to keep either 1 Dwarf Gourami per tank, or several. Males can be quite aggressive to each other, so if 2 are kept, they must have a large tank with plenty of hiding spaces. They prefer to have some floating plants.
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They were sold in pairs.I arranged the tank with a lot of cover on both sides and the Gourami,being territorial,seem to have taken a side each.By aggressive,i mean they chase the other fish out of their territory sometimes,nothing much.generally they get on fine.
I've heard the TetraMin tropical Crisps are very good.might try them

 

[locust267]

If the gourami were sold in pairs I would assume one is male and one is female?

If so then you may want to get another female in there to share out the males "attention".

With regards to food I just feed a good mix, find a few different foods they all like and alternate throughout the week. I also feed frozen food one day and no food at all on another.

Vicki

 

[backtotropical]

Most commercial dry and frozen foods are much the same.

The most important thing is to feed a good variety of foods. This will help growth, health and happiness.

I personally have more different foods than there are days in the week.

The only thing i would say is be wary of 'cheap' foods. They can sometimes be quite nasty. Anything made by Tetra, Aquarian, King British, Hikari etc etc should be fine, and its really just personal preference.

Variety is the spice of life!

BTT

 

[TheMerovingian]

so if i feed my fish a mixture of blood worms, brine shrimp, flakes and pellets they will find it ok?

 

[locust267]

Try to add in some veg too like cucumber and lettuce etc.

Basically just try it all out and see what they like best

 

[paul_219]

I use a mixture of flakes, cichild pellets, cichild nutrients. I feed my pleco algea wafer and slice of cucumber.

 

[wilchil64]

I see a lot have colour enhancers etc.What do you think?Are there any that you would recommend?

Hi,

I'm feeding my fish (see signature) a mixture of Nutrafin complete flake food, King British tropical fish mini pellet food and King british algae wafers with live brine shrimp/bloodworm or daphnia once a week, brine shrimp (from frozen) twice a week and cucumber a couple of times a week.

Is there any point in feeding them the special foods that mention colours, do these actually make a difference or are they in fact possibly harmful?

I know I can feed courgettes and lettuce and cabbage, (something we rarely have in at the moment, hence feeding cucumber!), I think I also saw peas mentioned somewhere - how would I feed these? wouldn't they float?

Thanks.

 

[jonnyf84]

i feed tetra min, tetra crisps, tetra pro (red, yellow and green), algae tabs, sinking pellets, bloodworm, daphnia, tubilflex, cucumber, lettuce, courgette, peas, cichlid sticks, fruit flies and i feed my fry powdered egg yoke.

edit: blanch the peas and take them out of the casing - they won't float