Food for humans that can apply for fish

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Auren

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This is to know the diet suggestions or recommendations of some of our food that can apply as a supplement to a fish´s diet. I am aware that fish need a balanced diet, e.g certain meats are not recomended for everyday food due to the fat, of course many commercial fish foods are made up of natural ingredients that apply for us but my intention here is to have, out of the shelve readily available food for the fish. I know many fishes like bread, cereal (not the frosted and sugar flavor types), turkey ham, canned food or even zuccini. Any more suggestions for angelfish, Arowana, Goldfish, Cichlids, Blood Parrot hybrid, Eels.
 
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You might be interested to search for recipes people have come up with for gel-based fish foods. Some use a lot of interesting ingredients and give their justification for using it.
 
That is true, ive heard about mixing a bit of red meat, fish, spinach etc, then putting all of that in a blender, and then freezing all of those. Yet due to the fact that there is so many commercial fish food and the time it takes to prepare all this food, I was looking on more readily available stuff like bread, etc.
 
I wasn't suggesting that you make the gel-based foods, but the recipies might give you some ideas of what readily available foods might be good for fish and why. I've seen some very thorough discussions that list a variety of fruits and vegetables among other things and explains how they benefit the fish.
 
the only problem with meats (and some breads), besides the fat content, is often sliced meats (ham, turkey, bologna, etc) have preservatives, chemicals or even flavors in them....unless otherwise marked i suppose.

just make sure to check what the product contains before you feed it to your fish (ingreadients for fish foods are often treated and whatnot before being used)

fruits and veggies shouldnt pose any problem at all though

anyone: please correct me if im wrong about this one
 
I may also be mistaken, but i think certain fruits have a high acid (citric acid) content (oranges, limes) that may not be the best for your fish.
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I know people that feed sliced oranges to their goldfish without any problems. I thought feeding fruits with citric acid would be iffy too but it works for them.

-Dan
 
Yeah I wanted to know about this. What I wanted to know is when feeding meat/seafood or fish, should it be cooked or raw. I was thinking things like prawns and chicken?
 
I use most anything from the seafood department raw and chopped finely for all of my aquatic friends- shrimp, octopus, squid, scallops, etc. I do not use anything like poultry/beef/pork.

Purists will argue that marine species need marine origin protein and freshwater species need freshwater origin protein, and neither need land origin protein like chicken, beef, etc.

I agree on the land based meats as it just feels wrong to me, but use seafood in all of my tanks. Mainly because I make too much for the marine tanks and have to walk past the freshwater ones to throw out the excess- so I usually toss the leftovers to the Discus. So far I have seen no harm, but this represents only a fraction of their regular diet.

I do use green grocery source veggies like the occasional broccoli/zuchinni/peas, but am tending more towards nori sheets and spirulina. I blanch all grocery source items, use only USA products to try and eliminate pesticides, and wash them really well. Organic is best. Traces are traces- sure. But in a closed environment like an aquarium they can build up fairly rapidly.
 
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