the joy of varying foods

[LMOUTHBASS]

Hello guys, just curious what you feed your fish and i want to know what you think of my fish's diets
i have gouramis,cories,angels etc and i feed them
flake food,hikari freeze dried brine shrimp, hikari freeze dried blood worms,for my bottom feeders i give em' hikari algae wafers , sinking crumbles pellets , also i occasionally feed spirulina algae flake food, n new life mini pellets pellets
i'm thinking of getting some daphnia by hikari i really can't say enough about hikari products they are great the fish gobble anything i put in by them -
i like to mix up their foods - sometimes i put a few different types at once - other times i give em something new everyday
recently i just discovered the joy of feeding bloodworms! the fish go nuts for em'
i like the bloodworms it's fun to see em eat these!!!
i like giving em' new foods because i used to only feed flak foods them i thought about it n i woul get sick of eating chicken everyday so i figure hey they shoul have variety

[Leopardess]

LOL..this site comes in handy when I'm too lazy to retype things:)

http://www.freewebs.com/quoth-the-raven/nutritionforfish.htm

Your diet (well , the fish's anyway;)) sounds good.

[LMOUTHBASS]

forgot to mention pre boiled zuchinni or squash pleco luvs this!!!

[fishdude]

i fead em tropical color enhancing flakes ,cichlid color enhancing flakes(for the rams), brine shrimp, plankton,algae wafers, and the soft middles of cucumbers

ur fish must love you for that big a diet:D :p

[LMOUTHBASS]

it's sort of new i just got sick of feeding them flakes - plus its more fun this way!!!
i'm still trying to establis a feedinf routine as to what i feed on what days etc but i suppose it doesnt matter as long as their getting well fed -
unless someone has some other info that might suggest otherwise?

[fishdude]

do u feed ur fish every day or every other?

[LMOUTHBASS]

but moderatly i don't overfeed

[SayersWeb]

Have you tried freeze-dried Tubifex Worms?

[LMOUTHBASS]

cause they look gross n i dont really wanna touch em'
lol this comin from a guy who goes fishing n baits everything n sticks his hand down a fish's mouth to get a hook out!!! hahaha

[Dapple2]

I feed mostly Hikari Micomini, Fancy Guppy, algae wafers, sinking wafers, and various freeze-dried and frozen; OSI brine shrimp flakes, frozen, and algea wafers; HBH shrimp pellets and marine soft and moist; Aquaselect Mini Food Sticks; and live microworms, daphnia, bbs, greenwater, earthworms, and fruit flies.

[Rhys]

I have been feeding my 4 clown loaches, 3 bala sharks and 1 red tail black shark half a cube of frozen brine shrimp in the morning and a good couple of pinches of flake at night.

[shewlett]

We feed our corydoras julli (2) Nutrafin Max Sinking Complete Food Tablets which they like. We've tried Wardleys brine shrimp pellets and Hikari Sinking Wafers - both of which they don't like. They will eat frozen brine shrimp but these are kind of messy and tend to end up in the filter even with the filter turned down low. We feed the two c julii once a day by breaking up one tablet into four or five pieces.

Our pet store betta which we just got a few days ago loves Hikari BioGold baby pellets. We have tried Hikari FD Bloodworms but he is not as fond of these and we have to break them up to make them small enough as most of them are too long. We feed this guy three times a day: 3-4 baby pellets or similar amount of broken up bloodworms. We are going to try him on Hikari FD brine shrimp shortly.

We have a red plakat who we are trying to wean off of live food onto the Hikari BioGold and Hikari FD products. This guy eats three times a day also and has been eating black worms and brine shrimp though in the past he was eating live bloodworms and daphnia at his breeders. Next summer we will feed him and the betta live bloodworms (mosquito larvae) from a bucket in the back yard.

[DeBree420]

are Bloodworms mosquito larvae or midge larvae?
someone told me they are midge...but in my bucket i use to breed live mosquito larvae there are also these weird red wormie thingies wiggling around at the bottom...they kinda look like bloodworm...the end of their tail divides in 2 just like the mosquito larvae...can i feed these to my fish...will it be good for them?

[mee-mee]

:dance2: Algae wafers, Freeze dried brine shrimp, color enhancing tropical flakes, cichlid pellets, shrimp pellets, and my hubby's fingers once in awhile (j/k)

[Addict]

Steak, eggs, bacon drippings, deep fried twinkies.....
:p:

Hikari does make some quality product. Wardley is decent too. I did notice that the Wardley algae wafers seems to cloud the water a little though.


are Bloodworms mosquito larvae or midge larvae?
someone told me they are midge...but in my bucket i use to breed live mosquito larvae there are also these weird red wormie thingies wiggling around at the bottom...they kinda look like bloodworm...the end of their tail divides in 2 just like the mosquito larvae...can i feed these to my fish...will it be good for them?
Midge. Some people feed their fish earthworms, flies or whatever else they catch. Just depends on the fish.

[RoseFishWatcher]

My new favorite food for my bichirs is frozen krill. While they'll eat nearly anything (except freeze dried tubifex worms, apparently) they go CRAZY when I throw in some krill. I feed a number of different frozen and flake type foods, but the krill is so much fun to feed.

I also feed my bichirs (and a lot of my other fish) by hand - they will come right up and eat flake or frozen foods right out of my fingers. The bichirs will even jump out of the water for it (although I don't make them do that on purpose - sometimes I just don't get the food into the water fast enough for them)

[stasia8756]

Tetra Min flakes, bloodworms, tubifex worms, brine shrimp. The bloodworms don't sink so the middle and bottom feeders have to have some flakes or pellets at that time.

Stasia

[Star_Rider]

are Bloodworms mosquito larvae or midge larvae?
someone told me they are midge...but in my bucket i use to breed live mosquito larvae there are also these weird red wormie thingies wiggling around at the bottom...they kinda look like bloodworm...the end of their tail divides in 2 just like the mosquito larvae...can i feed these to my fish...will it be good for them?

actually it depends on which part of the world..Rojo are mosquito larvae
here the midge larvae is the blood work aka chironomidae.

I prefer the midge larvae over the mosquito..
Oregon desert brand

[hankn]

are Bloodworms mosquito larvae or midge larvae?
someone told me they are midge...but in my bucket i use to breed live mosquito larvae there are also these weird red wormie thingies wiggling around at the bottom...they kinda look like bloodworm...the end of their tail divides in 2 just like the mosquito larvae...can i feed these to my fish...will it be good for them?

They are Red Mosquito Larvae. I use San Francisco Bay Brand Bloodworms:
http://www.sfbb.com/frozen.asp#