If a fish is eating pellets is there any benefit to feeding different types or brands of pellet or are they all the same? Say a peacock bass is eating hikari massivore is there any reason to also feed food sticks or cichlid gold? Thanks!
Feeding different pellets
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Good point. My fish all eat almost everything & anything, although there are a couple of commercial foods that my midas simply refuses to eat. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own 2 eyes, as he has eaten dang near everything & anything over the years. One of the most recent foods that I offered up he got so worked up over the taste and smell that he refused to not only eat that formula (he eats another formula of the same brand on a regular basis) but he refused to eat anything else when I offered that particular food. He went on a rampage biting the glass, splashing water, carrying on just like a spoiled brat, and left all food at the bottom of the tank. Next day I went back to his regular foods that I know he eats well, and he went back to his normal self. I tried it 3 times, and all 3 times got the same result. All my other fish eat it with no issue. What a drama queen! lol
I tried a floating pellet figuring less waste and my blue acaras wont touch them. Tried a veggie based pellet as well and for the first few weeks the acara wouldnt even touch them. But i do try and vary the food up as much as possible.
Yeah that's a problem I have with a couple of my fish. I created picky brats by only feeding one type of food lol.
On the flip side, yrs back I fed the exact same brand & formula for a decade to all of the fish in one of my tanks. No issues, they all lived long healthy lives, probably a lot longer than they would have in the wild. (African cichlids) I had no intention in changing their diet so that wasn't an issue.