What FOod? And how do fish loose fat?

[the animal guy]

?1) i have a FH that i think is light for his size, or is fat. I want to cut his fat and get him lean looking and so carry himself better. what are the few popular/good food for fresh water fish have the Least fat with most protein? For the Carnivores and the One that eat both meat and veggies.



?2) I dont know if them swimming back and forth will ever rid of any fat. I know that will help maintain the muscle tissues but I mean loosing the fat. How do FHs loose their fat that they stacked up?

These are some hard questions. Please let me know what food to feed my fish to loose fat. Thank You.

 

[xraycer]

NLS and Xtreme are both about 5% fat, 30%+ protein

 

[the animal guy]

NLS and Xtreme are both about 5% fat, 30%+ protein

5%
is that the lowest fat out there?

 

[midnight_games]

I think fish metabolism is determined by the temperature of their' surroundings. So I would increase the temperature of your water and put them on a veggie based food diet. No shrimp, worms, or any fatty foods.

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[joe jaskot]

Hobbyists feed their fish too much and too often. For most adult fish, feeding once a day is fine. With big fish skip a day or two of feeding each week. Fish will be fine.

 

[Jc1119]

Hobbyists feed their fish too much and too often. For most adult fish, feeding once a day is fine. With big fish skip a day or two of feeding each week. Fish will be fine.

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Couldn't agree more.


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[duanes]

Observing cichlids in nature, especially with predators, the ones I've seen, seem to miss their target 9 out of 10 attempts to feed(maybe more), and the distance they need to travel to make a strike is much larger than most aquariums except the public ones. I've followed a uropthalmus travel the length of a football field in a few moments, without an attempt to eat. Unless the adult cichlids kept, are plant, algae eaters or detritus feeders, feeding once every other day would seem to me, quite sufficient.
And although raising the temp will ramp up metabolism in fish, taking a temp to 82'F or higher increases the populations of pathogenic bacteria such as Flexibacter columnaris, which causes duck lips disease.

 

[xraycer]

5%
is that the lowest fat out there?

5% is low, other brands goes double digits. Also agreed on the feeding less, except for frys and juvies.

Since it works for other animals, I suppose you can put them on a workout regiment. Set up a bunch of powerheads on one side of the tank and let the fish swim against the strong current for an hour everyday. I'm going to disagree with increasing the temp to increase metabolism to lose weight.

 

[RD.]

Crude protein & crude fat are listed by law as minimum quantities, which means you won't know the max or actual values unless you have the food tested in a lab.



Just feed your fat fish less food, less often, as others have suggested.

 

[xraycer]

Just feed your fat fish less food, less often, as others have suggested.

Who, whoa,whoa!!! that's politically incorrect. His fish is not "fat", but "calorically challenged"