I plan on feeding both pellets and fresh food to Nibble. What are foods that goldies love best? Does anyone have a good recipe for gel food and can it be frozen?
What kinds of food?
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Gel foods should remain refrigerated to keep them fresh. If your recipe included seafoods and have not been refrigerated for several hours, you'd have to dispose them. A lot of foods are perishable and once the quality deteriorates, the fish is at risk of suffering digestive problems.
You could try Mazuri. They're probably affordable in your area and Mazuri gel foods are often recommended as they work well for "floaty" (short for fish with buoyancy issues) fish. Here's the chart done by Dataguru of GAB for three types of Mazuri foods. You could make one yourself although my last gel food recipe also involved canned mackerels (tomato sauce removed).
My goldies also get Hikari Lionhead. I would avoid most foods that are filled with starch-based ingredients such as soybean meal, bran, corn, wheat soy, etc to name a few. Starch has been known to cause floaty issues with goldies as the bacteria that digest the starch produce gas and since the organs of a lot of fancy goldies are already compressed by their body shape, the gas becomes trapped and can cause buoyancy issues to the fish. Your other option is Hikari Oranda Gold but gel foods, plants, veggies and frozen stuff such as bloodworms also work quite well.
You could try Mazuri. They're probably affordable in your area and Mazuri gel foods are often recommended as they work well for "floaty" (short for fish with buoyancy issues) fish. Here's the chart done by Dataguru of GAB for three types of Mazuri foods. You could make one yourself although my last gel food recipe also involved canned mackerels (tomato sauce removed).
My goldies also get Hikari Lionhead. I would avoid most foods that are filled with starch-based ingredients such as soybean meal, bran, corn, wheat soy, etc to name a few. Starch has been known to cause floaty issues with goldies as the bacteria that digest the starch produce gas and since the organs of a lot of fancy goldies are already compressed by their body shape, the gas becomes trapped and can cause buoyancy issues to the fish. Your other option is Hikari Oranda Gold but gel foods, plants, veggies and frozen stuff such as bloodworms also work quite well.
I make snail jello for my snails. I also give some to my goldfish a few times a week. They do enjoy it. There is a recipe for it in the invert sticky section.
They also get skinned peas a few times a week.
They also get skinned peas a few times a week.
I second on the skinned peas, and also Aquarian pellets. If I'm feeling rich/the LFS has a sale I get live brine shrimp or bloodworms, and they always get a portion of frozen bloodworms when I feed my African Dwarf Frogs because the cube is too big for my frogs. I also make sure they've got some cheap plants in there that they munch on between feedings - it's annoying to clear up the bits and replace the plants but it makes me feel a bit like they are living a bit more naturally than just a glass tank. I use anarchis (elodia densa, also known as oxygenating weed where I am).