As aquarists, we may have a preference for feeding either floating or sinking foods. However, which comes closest to natural habitat and instincts?
Floating or Sinking Foods
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Well, it depends which fish you have. Some foods can sink, some float for various species to eat.
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that would depend on where the fish was from, and its natural food. an arro is a big surface feeder, so floaters would most likely be best. where as alot of other mid water fish would be better with sinkers.
personally, my fish all get floating. i rather the food stay atop for awhile and give them a chance to eat.
I have both floating and sinking foods. On my little community tank, I drop some of the flakes into the waterfall from the power filter, and the rest on the surface, so the loaches can get enough food. On my 75 gallon, I have some sinking shrimp pellets as well as hikari cichlid gold, which floats. Either way, he eats them quickly so there is no time for anything to sink.
I feed a mixture of the two, as well as target fed frozen. My Oscars get the hikari gold, they never get a chance to get to my syno so I feed him sinking shrimp pellets. My ck's get the sinking shrimp pellets as well as target silversides, and live feeders for the little guy. My comp. and jag (both still tiny) get flakes, and frozen bloodworms. The angelfish tank gets flakes and bloodworms. So I do beleive it's whatever works best for your particular situation, considering most fish come from farms now. Now if you have wild caught fish, that's different. You'd have to do some digging online for that info.
I use hikari gold floating and sinking, massivore which sinks, carnivore pellets sink, hikari excel floats, I use a variety of everything it takes a while for your fish even the shyest ones will learn to trust you and anything you drop in that tank is food. Especially if you keep cichlids they have a bad habit of mistaking fingers for food, or are they really mistaking it and just showing who's boss....
