I can see why one would feed some types of fish vegetables (goldfish benefit from a few peas now and then) and feed seafood/fish mush to meateaters but I don't see the point of feeding fish something like bread and coldcuts. It certainly would not be part of their normal diet in the wild. Lots of freshwater fish get their protein from things like insect larva which can be purchased frozen or dried - why expirement with items they would not naturally eat?
That sounds fare, but I dont think that giving them something they usually dont eat in their natural habitat may do them harm, except maybe beef with fat and all that, or foods with chemicals, but maybe some bread, cerial, without sugar, some veggies can complement their diet and wont do harm ´feed on a very occasional basis. To start with many of our fishes dont even live in their natural habitat, as much as an experienced aquarist wants to imitate their surroundings, I guess a similar more carefull aproach can be dealt with food.
Those Discuss are impressive, I would love to have some in my outdoor pond, yet my PH value is 7.5 which is to high, unless I buy some that have been adapted gradually, but even so. I think they are still to delicate for an outdoor ornamental tropical pool/pond, even though I have temp control at 78 F. ¿Have you heard of discuss being kept outdoors? I would like to start on this, but not before talking to experimented discuss aquarists.
Joe's discus are undeniably great. I also agree with you Joe on the feeding. Other then the occasional veggie I feed all fish foods. There is such a good quality available commercially that I don't see the need to experiment. You can provide an excellent and natural variety just by visiting your local fish store. Many foods (Hikari in particular) also have vitamins added to them to promote health. Spirulina is a great food to feed as well.
Here's a list of foods I feed to give people an idea of the variety available.
Frozen:
Hikari Mysis Shrimp
Hikari Daphnia
Hikari Bloodworms
San Francisco Bay Spirulina Enriched Brine Shrimp
San Francisco Bay White Mosquito Larva
Oregon Desert Brine Shrimp
It's not possible to keep Discus alive in a pond. Unless, you live close to the equator. Discus need constant warm, clean water to thive.
Thanks all the compliments...
Well at the moment to supliment my fishes diet I give them assorted veggies that I grow in the garden, (fertalizer free)! such as courgette, cabbage and peas. I dig up random earthworms and catch water boatmen from the pond.
What got me thinking was they other week I bought some raw whitebait for my Cat, olny the stuffy bugger decided he didnt want fresh fish so I wondered if I could feed it to my fish. I didn't risk it in the end cause I didnt want to rish it making them ill or for them to ignore it and for me to just have to clean bits of fish out my tank again! I dont want to get feeder fish and I don't really want the hastle of breeding them myself, so I just wondered if buying small fish like this from the supermarket would do?
Plus buying different types of shell fish like prawns. I mean can I just defrost a few frozen prawns that I would eat and chop them up a little?
so I just wondered if buying small fish like this from the supermarket would do?
Plus buying different types of shell fish like prawns. I mean can I just defrost a few frozen prawns that I would eat and chop them up a little?[/QUOTE]
It is recomended to buy white fish any type, not fish type or species that have pink or any other color meat, I buy frozen white fish from my local supermarket that lasts 1 year, otherwise you end up spending to much on fish that can get rotten to soon, look for frozen fish white color with 1 year expiration date
I also agree with Hook and Joe -- my fish get nothing but store fish food (hikari wafers, tetra flakes, freeze dried blood worms, betta pellets) and the occassional fresh/frozen veggies: peas, cucumbers, zucchini, cucumber, romaine lettuce.
