I feed all my fish this japanese freeze dried krill. I also my Hikari sticks and pellets but they just spit it out. So is it bad just giving them one type of food?
Is it bad feeding my fish one type of food?
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Variety in anyone's diet is a good thing. Would you want to eat hamburgers every day and night for the rest of your life? Sure, you'd eat it if there was nothing else, but when you got a chance to have some pizza you'd jump on it. If your fish won't eat the Hikari pellets, try another brand. Give them some bloodworms or wax worms if they're big enough to eat them. Frozen brine shrimp is good once or twice a week. The oscars in my store appreciate the occasional small cricket I toss them once in a while and will eat red worms right from my hand.
Yeah they take in blood worms but I want them to eat the pellets cause its the cheapest. I keep on thinking that freeze dried krill is like a treat, so its goona be bad for them in the long run.
Well, with budget concerns in mind, I'll say pellets or flakes can make up a good portion of a healthy diet...like 2/3 or so. Giving them the krill a couple or three days a week is not bad, but if you switch foods for those 2-3 days, say 1 day frozen brine shrimp, 1 day krill and 1 day wax worms that will give them a good variety of food. It is more cash up front to go get 2 more kinds of supplemental food, but you will not go through them as fast by switching them around. Also, rehydrating the freeze dried krill in some tank water for a few minutes before you drop it in the tank will help lessen the likelihood of tummy troubles and they might eat less of it because the moisture will help them feel fuller.
I have about 3 - 4 different kind of flake foods that we rotate among feeding the 4 tanks we have. About once a week, I throw in some frozen brine shrimp. Slap some zucchini on a clip for the corys and pl*cos and they all seem happy. I've never had any problem with any of the fish eating. If some decide not to eat one day, they usually do when I feed next day. And it doesn't hurt for them to go hungry 1 day a week. Actually, it probably wouldn't hurt me, for that matter. :thud:
Mine get flakes twice a day, a cube of frozen bloodworms once, and some shrimp pellets and algae waffers before lights out. They seem to like it that way... and with all the bloodworms the colors are great!
I saw a study done where two groups of juvenile to adult fish were fed a cirtain ammount a day for thier size. One group was fed that ammount every day. and the other was not fed one randome day a week and both groups grew the same and could not be distinguished from each other.
if you are haveing trouble getting your fish to eat the other food let them get hungry by not feeding them for abit. they can be viewed like children in that if you let them eat ice cream and candy all the time they won't want to eat their vegetables. but if you take the treats away from them they will get hungry enough to eat the good for them stuff.
if you are haveing trouble getting your fish to eat the other food let them get hungry by not feeding them for abit. they can be viewed like children in that if you let them eat ice cream and candy all the time they won't want to eat their vegetables. but if you take the treats away from them they will get hungry enough to eat the good for them stuff.
I agree that most of us overfeed our fish and that they'll thrive on considerably less food than we think. I feed most of my fish (except fry/juveniles and sick fish) only about 4 days a week. They seem to do fine on that schedule.
I also avoid feeding a single brand and type of food for extended periods of times. Not only is a varied diet more interesting for the fish, but I also worry that even high quality food might be deficient in some essential nutrient or vitamin. Feeding a single feed all the time potentially exposes the fish to a risk of long term deficiency of something essential. The safest route, I think, is to feed as varied a diet as you can afford, including fresh ingredients whenever possible (e.g., veggies).
HTH,
JIm
I also avoid feeding a single brand and type of food for extended periods of times. Not only is a varied diet more interesting for the fish, but I also worry that even high quality food might be deficient in some essential nutrient or vitamin. Feeding a single feed all the time potentially exposes the fish to a risk of long term deficiency of something essential. The safest route, I think, is to feed as varied a diet as you can afford, including fresh ingredients whenever possible (e.g., veggies).
HTH,
JIm
before i joined the army 6 years ago I had 3 oscars and various other tanks and setups. I had nothing else to do but take care of my fish. I also worked at the lfs. My oscars ate live food (goldfish, guppies, rosie reds) and frozen brine shrimp. They lived great. Sill alive as of 2 years ago. Havent checked up on them. But I had them for 3 years only live food. The man I gave them to switched them over to pellets and ocassionly live food. Good luck