Dietary diversity, what's your take the subject?
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I feed my stock Nls one day then a vegetable flake the next I have silver dollars that inhale the vegetable flakes
Hikari jumbo carnisticks, massivore, cichlid pellets. Thawed prawn, hake, tilapia, lance fish. Live crickets, giant mealworms. Blanched spinach, zucchini, squashed peas.
Dry food daily, others couple of time a week
I keep aro, cichlids, giant gourami, polypterus, pleco
Dry food daily, others couple of time a week
I keep aro, cichlids, giant gourami, polypterus, pleco
Probably not a big deal for city folk but...I was feeding my clown loaches and tiger barbs hikari lions head pellets and blood worms when our local fish store closed making them mail order only. I had lots of choices at the big pet mart place but not identical.... My fish didn't eat for two weeks and I had to vacuum after every feed. It was probably harder on me than my fish, but I feel like if they had a health issue at the time it could have compounded... Now they get about 6 different things on a rotation (my dogs and cats are at least as bad).
Kinda seems like a no-brainer to me. Barring obligate specialist feeders... all fish feed on a variety of things in the wild.
All of my fish get a variety of processed food, natural frozen food, and live insects. I find that they're never as fat as some fish that feed solely on commercial processed food, but they look robust, as if they were just pulled out of the wild.
On a semi-related note, I think crickets are a very underrated food source for many fish. My mosquitofish, paradisefish, and pike cichlid love them. You'd be hard-pressed to find a fish that will turn up its nose at a big bug.
When I was fifteen or so, I had yoyo loaches, and even they loved crickets. They learned to come get them from the surface and bring them to the bottom, then rip them apart together as a team.
All of my fish get a variety of processed food, natural frozen food, and live insects. I find that they're never as fat as some fish that feed solely on commercial processed food, but they look robust, as if they were just pulled out of the wild.
On a semi-related note, I think crickets are a very underrated food source for many fish. My mosquitofish, paradisefish, and pike cichlid love them. You'd be hard-pressed to find a fish that will turn up its nose at a big bug.
When I was fifteen or so, I had yoyo loaches, and even they loved crickets. They learned to come get them from the surface and bring them to the bottom, then rip them apart together as a team.
Fantastic process and results and fascinating how they loaches figured out how to grab the cricket from the surface. Do you mind showing a pic or two of you fish that you have now? Just a close up of one or two?
I agree with that, but crickets always find a way to get out places; I used to hate pinheads for that reason, plus they bite!
Forgot to mention that in have some hikari frozen food cubes as well. Krill Shrimp squid and bloodworms. They go in aquarium as well. My Poly's love the scent of shrimps and go nuts once dropped in. Also blood worms and squid are quick snacks for these.
I reason I picked the massivores because if crude protein as well. At about 45% can't beat it.
Few times I dropped in the raw chicken liver and action was amazing. Experimented with flounder and although the most favourite for all of the inhabitants, its too oily and leaves a layer of oil at the surfzce so I stopped feeding this.
Its a useful topic and I have got some good insights about different feeding patterns and outcomes. Thanks everyone
I reason I picked the massivores because if crude protein as well. At about 45% can't beat it.
Few times I dropped in the raw chicken liver and action was amazing. Experimented with flounder and although the most favourite for all of the inhabitants, its too oily and leaves a layer of oil at the surfzce so I stopped feeding this.
Its a useful topic and I have got some good insights about different feeding patterns and outcomes. Thanks everyone
I have always feed my fish a wide range of food. Live, flakes, pellets, freeze dried, and frozen. My main brand is HBH foods.
