Best food?

[Bigfishnut]

My female marble will eat literally anything I give her and want more. She's about 7 or 8 inches and right now I feed her a mix of tilapia, squid, spirulina brineshrimp, bloodworms, and small sinking pellets. I shred the meat and blend all ingredients together and give her about 1/2 teaspoon or so three times a day. Wondered what would be the best foods for health and growth. This is the first ray I've had that seems to accept anything and eat it all. Is there anything I'm missing? Or anything I should cut out?

 

[Bigfishnut]

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[CODISCUS]

I wouldn't change anything.
I feed Tilapia and Pellets to my adults.

 

[Bigfishnut]

Cool, that is reassuring. I'm kinda nuts about fish diet, and I try to avoid anything with thiaminase. Always curious to see what other people with more experience are doing.

 

[CANAMONSTER]

I think ideally whole fish frozen would be the best for health. Mine eat shrimp and tilapia meat and pellets. Pellets should be high quality

 

[Hendre]

Cool, that is reassuring. I'm kinda nuts about fish diet, and I try to avoid anything with thiaminase. Always curious to see what other people with more experience are doing.

Thiaminase is fine with supplements, some people feed shrimp once a week to their fish then use vitamin additives on fish meat or similar to counter the minimal effect the once a week feeding has

 

[Bigfishnut]

Thiaminase is fine with supplements, some people feed shrimp once a week to their fish then use vitamin additives on fish meat or similar to counter the minimal effect the once a week feeding has

Do they really need shrimp in their diet? I used to feed shrimp and raw tuna, but cut those out of all my predators diets because of thiaminase. I have a large lionfish that was raised on nothing but shrimp, and I don't feed him any now and he doesn't seem to have any issues. Do the pellets have enough vitamins to make up for vitamin supplements? That's really the only reason I feed pellets

 

[CANAMONSTER]

Do they really need shrimp in their diet? I used to feed shrimp and raw tuna, but cut those out of all my predators diets because of thiaminase. I have a large lionfish that was raised on nothing but shrimp, and I don't feed him any now and he doesn't seem to have any issues. Do the pellets have enough vitamins to make up for vitamin supplements? That's really the only reason I feed pellets

I can't stress enough that only a couple brands of pellets are probably decent food for your fish. Not going to start a brand war but a hint is the less carbs and starches and wheat the better

 

[Bigfishnut]

I can't stress enough that only a couple brands of pellets are probably decent food for your fish. Not going to start a brand war but a hint is the less carbs and starches and wheat the better

I agree. I'm a fish food ingredient reader bigtime! I stay away from wheat, soy, corn...all that stuff. I look for the first 4 or 5 ingredients to be fish and vegetables. Pretty much all of them have some grain as a binder. I figure fish don't eat rice and wheat in the wild!

 

[moosemj]

I like a healthy mix of stuff. Salmon, tuna, shrimp and tilapia make up the bulk of what I feed bylit mix in some extras as well including pellets.