bread for fish?

[OscarbitteninOhio]

Bread as fish food...no. For several reasons. It can swell in the stomache, causing digestive problems, will foul your water pretty quickly, contains little nurtitional value as a food for humans, even less so for fish.

Why would you want to feed between feedings. Overfeeding your fish is worse for them than underfeeding. Over fed fish are more prone to develop constipation and anal prolapse. Tanks that are overfed generally have water quality that is much harder to maintain at healthy levels (high nitrates, ammonia and nitrite spikes).

If you are looking for good supplemental foods for your fish to go along with a staple of prepared pellets/sticks/flakes, then do some research into the fish you have. What do they eat in the wild? Are they omnivores who would benefit from live crickets, worms, pieces of soft fruit, blanched veggies? Are the vegetarians who would benefit from a slab of blanched zucchini or cucumber.

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[RadleyMiller]

Sorry about the whole piscavore/herbivore thing, I was in a hurry and didn't have time to put much.

If your fish are always hungry either you don't feed them enough or they just appear always to be hungry. For my fish, they get a variety of floating and sinking pellets along with many different frozen foods such as plankton, algae, krill, silversides, bloodworms, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, and squid. We are never going to be able to offer the variety of foods they have in nature but we can still try. Granted they are never going to eat pellets in the wild, some of my fish think the pellets are alive. Others treat them like natural prey items. My scat nibbles on algae wafers and algae sheets like he would in the wild. My dat eats anything the floats in front of his face, and my archer will nail anything above it. ect, ect

This is fishkeeping, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but bread is one thing I wouldn't feed to them. Since this is fishkeeping however, to each his own.