What is your prefered food diet?

[darkemotion]

I just feed mines mostly pellets and smelt from the grocery store. I occasionally give them treats like crickets and mealworms but that only when I get the chance to goto the LFS.

 

[wickedworm76]

market prawns/shrimp, shrimp pellets, silver sides, clam, beefheart on occassion, marine a pellets as an everyday staple.

same here

 

[guppy]

Other than piranha the fish I have kept tended to swallow the fish they ate whole and head first. It is possible that fins or bone that were oriented in the wrong direction got hung up while being swallowed.

 

[cougar579]

I use to feed various shrimp worms silversides etc. Now I am stuck on Kensfish moist pellets. They are packed with vitamins and the particular ingredients big fish enjoy. The have a good selection on foods, not catering to one species but many.

 

[MasterMing]

Market shrimp, mealworms, crickets, blackworms, and eathworms.

 

[FlammingWoodChuck]

i feed mine feeders,bloodworms, and hikari floating pelets

 

[guppy]

My lates calcarifier doesn't take frozen bloodworms...

The whitebait from tackle shops, the one that sells as fish bait, i hear that they are not 'clean' and should not be fed to our beloved fishes, instead the ones sold at aquariums are the way to go - what do you guys think about this?

Anyone breeding their own crickets/insects? If so what do you guys gutload them with to get them healthy for your fish? I know carrots is a good source

I like most types of live bait fish from bait shops and have never had a problem but if given the choice I buy live smelt or anchovies to feed freshwater fish as there are fewer diseases that will make the transfer from one to the other. I gut load with tetramin color enhancing flake food, spirolina, nori, wheat germ, and dried bonito flakes. Works for small lizards and snakes as well.

 

[recycling goddess]

i feed silkworms (live of course) to my oscars... they looooove them! also beefheart as my friend gets them from her dad's farm... NLS foods are the BEST in my opinion... can't believe how gorgeous my fish are after being on that food.

and of course, romaine, zucchini, frozen peas, frozen shrimp, frozen fish (whatever is on sale at the market) - i just toss it into the tank and let them work at it until it thaws... esp in the summer... the fish love it when it's hot in the tank and they can munch on something frozen!

 

[Aras118119]

I feed mine mollies, guppys, ghost shrimp, minnows, crickets, mealworms, daphnia, tubifex worms, blood worms, brine shrimp, krill, silversides, green beeans, zuchini, spinach, flakes, and pellets.