I have several tanks - a 180g pearsei and silver dollar tank, a shrimp tank, a 55g community tank, a series of pleco tanks. I'm looking to expand my food options. Curious what you guys keep on hand
What foods do you keep on hand?
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I like to always have bloodworms, mussels, mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, krill, and tubifex worms in my freezer. These may work for your 208 liter and your pleco tanks depending on the species in them, but I would not consider them ideal for the primarily herbivorous fish in your 681 liter.
After all, every single one of the species I keep is predominantly or entirely insectivorous/carnivorous/molluscivorous, which certainly doesn't apply to you.
After all, every single one of the species I keep is predominantly or entirely insectivorous/carnivorous/molluscivorous, which certainly doesn't apply to you.
I like to have a wide array of frozen foods. Bloodworms, gammurus, barramundi fillets, home made frozen mix, prawns. Also a wide array of dryfood. Massivore, northfin, aquaculture, Fuzzy fox gel food, algae wafers. I also have live foods such as mosquito larvae, brine shrimp, tubifex, vinegar eels, microworms as well as cherry shrimp. Although controversial I do sometimes feed live feeders to my fish, but these are rainbow fish culls and endlers I breed for a picky tree snake that only eats live fish.
Brine Shrimp eggs,decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, freeze dried krill, algae wafers, ken's small catfish pellet, ken's krill pellet, fluval cichlid, small fish and goldfish bug bites, algae wafers, freeze dried mysis shrimp, Tetramin flake food, tilapia.
Flakes - nls optimum, cobalt aquatics brine shrimp
Pellets - nls insectum/thera A/algae max, hikari excel/carnisticks/massivore, cobalt aquatics predator
Frozen - bloodworms, spirulina brine shrimp, whole brine shrimp, plankton, mysis, silversides
Freeze dried - krill
Live - crickets, super worms, night crawlers
Pellets - nls insectum/thera A/algae max, hikari excel/carnisticks/massivore, cobalt aquatics predator
Frozen - bloodworms, spirulina brine shrimp, whole brine shrimp, plankton, mysis, silversides
Freeze dried - krill
Live - crickets, super worms, night crawlers
I always have on hand a tub or two of flakes and a selection of assorted sizes of pellets in both floating and sinking varieties. I tend to gravitate mostly towards high-vegetable varieties simply because I seem to have a lot of largely- or partially-vegetarian fish species. I like to keep some freeze-dried tubifex on hand because it's so perfect for absorbing Vitachem or puppy dewormer (the only kind I can get up here). It's handy to have a quality powder-fine food for rearing fry. Always a container of quality turtle pellets on my avatar's tank.
In the freezer I always keep adult and baby brine shrimp, Mysis, some sort of plankton, krill and bloodworms...although the possibility of bloodworm allergies gives me pause. I also usually have a big batch of DIY gel food, frozen in single serving portions. It's mostly duckweed
, but I will likely be mixing up a carnivore version pretty soon.
There's always a big tub of Massivore or equivalent large pellets for my JellyCat, as well as frozen small fish and large krill.
I look forward to the wet spring season, when I can get earthworms on my morning dog walks. That's the only live food I use regularly; at the moment I need small live feeder fish, so am going through guppies and cichlid fry at a horrendous clip, but once I get a fish on pellets or gel foods, that stops. It's funny how a species of cichlid that one spends years waiting to own and breed quickly turns into a source of live feeder fish once you finally get them!
In other words...a selection of typical foods. I also have a bag in the "hobby freezer" containing frozen mice and voles that I trap around my sheds and barn. I toss a couple of them on top of one of the sheds on a nightly basis during bad weather, for the local owls. I also drag local road-killed deer to the corner of my back field, where they are quickly cleaned up by Ravens, Magpies and Bald Eagles.
Or were we restricting this conversation just to fish foods?
In the freezer I always keep adult and baby brine shrimp, Mysis, some sort of plankton, krill and bloodworms...although the possibility of bloodworm allergies gives me pause. I also usually have a big batch of DIY gel food, frozen in single serving portions. It's mostly duckweed
, but I will likely be mixing up a carnivore version pretty soon.There's always a big tub of Massivore or equivalent large pellets for my JellyCat, as well as frozen small fish and large krill.
I look forward to the wet spring season, when I can get earthworms on my morning dog walks. That's the only live food I use regularly; at the moment I need small live feeder fish, so am going through guppies and cichlid fry at a horrendous clip, but once I get a fish on pellets or gel foods, that stops. It's funny how a species of cichlid that one spends years waiting to own and breed quickly turns into a source of live feeder fish once you finally get them!
In other words...a selection of typical foods. I also have a bag in the "hobby freezer" containing frozen mice and voles that I trap around my sheds and barn. I toss a couple of them on top of one of the sheds on a nightly basis during bad weather, for the local owls. I also drag local road-killed deer to the corner of my back field, where they are quickly cleaned up by Ravens, Magpies and Bald Eagles.
Or were we restricting this conversation just to fish foods?
Great minds think alike! ?
I don't have a dog, but I always like to scour the sidewalk on rainy days, from spring to fall, and give my fish the huge amount of worms that are invariably present. One of the best live foods available, and an absolute classic good for fish.
Just be careful about where you collect them, and maybe consider rinsing them thoroughly in several changes of water before use. No sidewalks where I live...any number of contaminants might be present on "city worms".