Hello! I would like talk food what you use and what type of results you get. So far I have use hikari sinking carnivore which worked well but I quickly switched to beaurdeoux s crawfish meat from wal marts fish isle lol. It was great for tail color and growth rate. But my rtc's were very lean so for the past week I have been using duck meat from this seasons kill lol. Results will be posted soon story/ ideas needed thanks
So let's talk fish food?!
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I don't have anything really to add since my tank is still only a 75 community with only the most generic of inhabitants. I use an automatic feeder set to feed twice a day and what the fish can eat in about 2 minutes. I use regular flake food, algae wafers, sinking pellets, tubiflex worms (dried), and blood worms (dried) all of these are crushed by hand and added to the auto feeder every month or so. When I want to treat them and just hang out to watch them, I'll drop either frozen mysis, daphne, algae, or bloodworms in. My community tank is looking great! 
Colors look great and everything (ok so they're mostly livebearers) are breeding like... well livebearers...
I recently noticed a post about a reptile food company getting into the fish food market. It made me think that I'd like to know alot more about the nutrition requirements and the science of this subject. My basic understanding of most lifeforms requirements is that nutrition should include a variety and it should be safe/sterile. I'm taking that mostly from my understanding of human nutrition and the idea that nutrient dense foods offer alot of trace elements that we've not considered necessary until recently.
Thanks for starting the thread, I look forward to reading all about it. MFK (when prodded to loosen the answers) is a great source for all sorts of science and information regarding the proper keeping of these animals.
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Colors look great and everything (ok so they're mostly livebearers) are breeding like... well livebearers... I recently noticed a post about a reptile food company getting into the fish food market. It made me think that I'd like to know alot more about the nutrition requirements and the science of this subject. My basic understanding of most lifeforms requirements is that nutrition should include a variety and it should be safe/sterile. I'm taking that mostly from my understanding of human nutrition and the idea that nutrient dense foods offer alot of trace elements that we've not considered necessary until recently.
Thanks for starting the thread, I look forward to reading all about it. MFK (when prodded to loosen the answers) is a great source for all sorts of science and information regarding the proper keeping of these animals.
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i feed my cats (false asian rtc, 2 pangasius catfish) api sinking pellets i feed my aro cichlid gold and as treats freeze dried krill and my peacock bass eats only krill im trying to get him on pellets with no success
oh and my bluegills eat pellets and i hand feed them krill and my african cichlids eat pellets as well ussually the api sinking pellets because i have a friends asian sun cat in there that im watching for a while
Ty for the posts! I have looked into the fish I have and what they eat in the wild I did my best to mimick that. But the science of the matter is also my intrest I would love to make fish vitamin s lol just to ensure health
Almost everything I have started out on live feeders, usually guppies. Then as they aged moved up to bigger feeders. Switched them to worms as soon as I could, then to cut fillet and still trying to feed pellets. The only fish I have that will eat pellets is my RTC, go figure. So far everything else refuses to eat and just makes a mess. My brachyplatystoma juruense still refuses anything but worms and live feeders even after starving it for 4 days. TSN= cut fillet and feeders, Achara just about anything, Monos cut fillet, worms, live feeders. Bichirs live feeders and cut fillet. Whatever I can get the fish to eat I rotate trying to keep a balance diet. Just today I found whole frozen tilapia at walmart and will start feeding it hoping the skin and head will fill any gaps in the vitamins. The pellets I use, believe it or not, are Purina Game Fish Chow. Did some research and all looked good. Seems to be working as well. Have been using it for a year now and no ill effects. The only problem I have with it is that it floats. Sometimes I regrind and reform the pellets to meet my needs and then they sink and I can adjujst the size as needed. Looking forward to the day I can get all of my fish on a rotation with the pellets because of the ease of use and cost, about $25 for 50lb. I use feeders very seldomly maybe once a month or so and then they only get a couple each. I would really like to find some crawfish for mine but so far the only thing at the local walmart is already cooked and seasoned. Hope this helps and good luck.
That's an interesting point about the crawfish. I would think that the shells probably have minerals in high concentration that would be good for the fish. Hadn't thought of that. Similar to putting cuttle bone into a shrimp tank so that the shells have enough calcium. Don't know if it would be calcium that was the most important from crawfish, but there's has to be something in there.