OLD Flake Food & Dried Bloodworms

[bizzy928]

Hello,

About three years ago I purchased a large size of Flakefood and Dried bloodworms. Shortly after, I stopped my aquarium hobby and put the food into storage.

I am back in this hobby now and I was wondering if I could feed my fish the food? I checked and there were no expiry dates.

3-4 year old flake
3-4 year old bloodworms

Thanks!

[TKOS]

From what I understand the vitamins in most dried foods are lost after a few months once the seal is broken. Since most flake foods are pretty inexpensive it is probably best of buying some new stuff

[valerie]

I would not use the flake food. But i remember reading that freeze dried fods can last a really long time as long as they don't get wet and are kept in a sealed container. Anyone know if this is true?

[wetmanNY]

Buy fresh stuff. Feed the old flakes to your white worms.

[bizzy928]

I'm going to throw out the food now. He didn't want to touch the flake food!

How long can bettas live without food? I don't have any today and I don't know when the last time they fed him at the lfs.

[TKOS]

Bettas can seem to last a long time...after moving mine to a new tank think he went ona 4 or 5 day fast while he was getting used to things...and he was still swimming around like normal