This is something I have thought of, this is not a proven method, nor do I say this is the right way to do things. But I would love to hear how others go about this.
I have over the years always tried to find ways to feed fish the food that would be as close as to the diet in their natural environment.
Pellets does make life easier with respect to feeding, but spoils water quicker, especially with messy eaters, which are most fish of mine.
Live foods are quite risky especially since they create an opportunity to introduce parasites in our tanks.
The fish I keep, I categorise them as piscivores, insectivores and species that need crustaceans also in their diet.
My insectivores such as arowanas, archers and Channa on the other hand are fed mainly on insects and fish meat and macrobrachium shrimp I feed once in a month.
For the piscivores such as Dorado, bichirs, datnoides, knife fish, gars, catfish, I go for fish fillet, only the mid spine and the scales are removed, the skin and the smaller spines are left along with the meat. The meat then is cut based on the size of the fish.
Now I am of the opinion that since the fish I keep are freshwater, I should only feed them freshwater fish or shrimp meat. I have tried to find any scientific research on this to prove my theory, but there's not much to conclude this. Even then my thoughts are as the fish are never gonna get saltwater fish meat in their natural environment, why to give them. I am open to others opinions on this.
My bottom dwellers mainly receive fish fillet, but I also regularly add freshwater shrimp to their diet.
Some special fish such as eels get mainly shrimp, my puffers get crabs, snails.
All goods I feed are frozen for atleast a few days before being thawed and fed, one of the ways to see that the parasites are killed.
As the thread got a bit too winding a few pics of live cultures
I have over the years always tried to find ways to feed fish the food that would be as close as to the diet in their natural environment.
Pellets does make life easier with respect to feeding, but spoils water quicker, especially with messy eaters, which are most fish of mine.
Live foods are quite risky especially since they create an opportunity to introduce parasites in our tanks.
The fish I keep, I categorise them as piscivores, insectivores and species that need crustaceans also in their diet.
My insectivores such as arowanas, archers and Channa on the other hand are fed mainly on insects and fish meat and macrobrachium shrimp I feed once in a month.
For the piscivores such as Dorado, bichirs, datnoides, knife fish, gars, catfish, I go for fish fillet, only the mid spine and the scales are removed, the skin and the smaller spines are left along with the meat. The meat then is cut based on the size of the fish.
Now I am of the opinion that since the fish I keep are freshwater, I should only feed them freshwater fish or shrimp meat. I have tried to find any scientific research on this to prove my theory, but there's not much to conclude this. Even then my thoughts are as the fish are never gonna get saltwater fish meat in their natural environment, why to give them. I am open to others opinions on this.
My bottom dwellers mainly receive fish fillet, but I also regularly add freshwater shrimp to their diet.
Some special fish such as eels get mainly shrimp, my puffers get crabs, snails.
All goods I feed are frozen for atleast a few days before being thawed and fed, one of the ways to see that the parasites are killed.
As the thread got a bit too winding a few pics of live cultures
