Lazersniper,
I understand your frustration, I don't know how effective it really is, (It is just something I surmise might help) but I usually always fed my guppies all of the flake food I could get them to eat right before I put them in the tank. Just put them in a small holding tank Quart jar will work, and then fed them some high nutrition flake food untill they are pretty fat (distended). Most guppies will eat untill they are very bloated if you let them. All of the fish I kept eat them whole so they ingest anything the feeders have in their stomach as well as the feeder itself. I usually netted them out of the holding tank so there wasn't any worry about the excess food ending up in the bottom of a tank. I really don't know how much nutrition this adds, but it will surely help some.
You may also want to shop at the bait store rather than the LFS. You can buy reasonably small quantities of redworms, meal worms, wax worms, and sometimes grubs or may fly larvea (wigglers) many of these items are seasonal, but Wisconsin is a great state for fishing, and ice fishing is a popular time for a lot of these worms. I wouldn't reccomend trying to use freeze dried worms, only live ones. wash them well and see how your fish likes them. mix them up once you find out what he likes. Another option may be live brine shrimp, but it is my understanding that it takes a while to raise them big enough to be worth the trouble.
I understand your frustration, I don't know how effective it really is, (It is just something I surmise might help) but I usually always fed my guppies all of the flake food I could get them to eat right before I put them in the tank. Just put them in a small holding tank Quart jar will work, and then fed them some high nutrition flake food untill they are pretty fat (distended). Most guppies will eat untill they are very bloated if you let them. All of the fish I kept eat them whole so they ingest anything the feeders have in their stomach as well as the feeder itself. I usually netted them out of the holding tank so there wasn't any worry about the excess food ending up in the bottom of a tank. I really don't know how much nutrition this adds, but it will surely help some.
You may also want to shop at the bait store rather than the LFS. You can buy reasonably small quantities of redworms, meal worms, wax worms, and sometimes grubs or may fly larvea (wigglers) many of these items are seasonal, but Wisconsin is a great state for fishing, and ice fishing is a popular time for a lot of these worms. I wouldn't reccomend trying to use freeze dried worms, only live ones. wash them well and see how your fish likes them. mix them up once you find out what he likes. Another option may be live brine shrimp, but it is my understanding that it takes a while to raise them big enough to be worth the trouble.
