Favourite guppy food?

Merry belated Christmas, Fishlore! I got a couple gift cards for my LFS over the holidays, and have some plans for getting a few plants, but will have some credit left over. Given that I'm already flirting with being overstocked (silly livebearers!), more fish is out of the question at this time, so I'm looking into something a little more gourmet for my finned friends. (Their usual diet consists of TetraMin Tropical Flakes and whatever little winged critters I catch and plop into their tank—my wife's pothos plants are somehow a great hatchery for tiny little "guppy treat" flies!)

What's your favourite non-flake food to treat your guppies or other fish?

 

You can feed them frozen or live food. No fish can resist frozen or live food.

 

Are there any specific foods you like best?

 

Are there any specific foods you like best?

BBS, daphnia, and cyclops.

 

Live baby brine shrimp. It takes a little fiddling around to hatch and feed them to the fish, but it's the best food you're going to find, especially for fry and juveniles.

 

I'm just running a solo 10 gallon tank, so I feel like the work (and space, and gear) required for live BBS is beyond the scope of what I'm looking for at this time.

I popped into my LFS and saw both dehydrated and frozen bloodworms. Once you adjust for water weight (90% moisture for frozen ones, 5% for dehydrated) they seem pretty similar in terms of price points. Is there any particular reason I should go for one format instead of the other?

Furthermore, does anyone have a preference between frozen brine shrimp or frozen bloodworms? Why?

 

I'm just running a solo 10 gallon tank, so I feel like the work (and space, and gear) required for live BBS is beyond the scope of what I'm looking for at this time.

I popped into my LFS and saw both dehydrated and frozen bloodworms. Once you adjust for water weight (90% moisture for frozen ones, 5% for dehydrated) they seem pretty similar in terms of price points. Is there any particular reason I should go for one format instead of the other?

Furthermore, does anyone have a preference between frozen brine shrimp or frozen bloodworms? Why?

I have heard that some people prefer brine shrimp as the nutrition is better??? i could be wrong though. If you are looking for a non flake food that's convinient(other than frozen and freeze dried bloodworms and brine shrimp) the hikari guppy food is good. THe fish like it(in my experience and the reviews are promising) and the ingredients are not bad. The only thing though is that it does have fish meal in there, which isn't the best quality. However, there are other ingredients such as spirulina algae that make it good, as the algae is beneficial for guppies. The only food that i can think of right now that doesn't have fish meal in it is the omega 1 fish flake, but again, that's a flake. Egg yolk is a good protein source if you don't want to feed bloodworms or brine shrimp, but it does cloud up the water. Hope this helped.