Recommended guppy food for picky guppies

Jbbergland
  • #1
My guppies have become very picky lately... I will put the food in their bowl and they either sniff it and turn their noses up or eat it and spit it out.
I am wondering if anyone has a recommendation of food that I could find at a pet store that a picky guppy will eat. Lol.

They used to love this food, but it may be stale because I might have left it open several times, lol.

The food I have is the fluval color enhancing bug bites... I do notice when I put it in the water most of the food turns a little lighter red but then there are like red hard dots on the food so that may be it.

I have expiramented with trying to feed them my other fishes food (betta food) but honestly that is over a year old now (and has had water spill on it and has dried) but my betta is not picky and still eats it so I keep it.
Any recommendations or food ideas for my little queens would be greatly appreciated.
 

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ProudPapa
  • #2
They should eat any good flake food if you crumble it up between your fingers, and any other food that's small enough for them to swallow. They will eventually eat larger flakes also, but it takes them a little longer.

I suspect the food getting stale is the problem, especially if the container was left open for an extended period of time.
 

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BPSabelhaus
  • #3
Debbie1986
  • #4
I had betta food that spoiled... ugh the smell.

I genrally use Hikari Guppy food, but 1-2x a week I will feed flake, bug bites or shrimp
 
BPSabelhaus
  • #5
Hikari is a big part of my mix.
 

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evonner
  • #7
I am looking for some good quality flakes for my guppies. I have 4. One of them is at least a year old and he is a fancy. The other 3 are not fancy guppies and are much younger. All are males. The foods I use are Royal Guppy Mignon Pellets, they all like this but it seems maybe the pellets are a titch too large. I use Hikari Micro Pellets, they don't seem to like this. I also have TetraMin Tropical Flakes that I crumble between my fingers but I am not really impressed with the ingredients. I used frozen brine, freeze dried brine and freeze dried blood worms too. My tap water naturally has 1 ppm phosphate and I have to control my algae issues. I also have some Betta food that I could try. I have Top Fin Pro Series Betta crumbles. Have not tried them on my guppies. PS: I watched a video from Co-op and they recommend bagging parts of your flakes and putting them in the freezer to keep them fresher longer.
 
BPSabelhaus
  • #8
Too large for a guppy? My Endlers gobble it up. Are these dwarf or something?
 
evonner
  • #9
Too large for a guppy? My Endlers gobble it up. Are these dwarf or something?
No, they are normal guppies. My older fancy guppy picks at the pellets for a bit then eats it. The other 3 are new additions that just came out of quarantine. Out of the 3 new ones, 2 are pretty small. I picked the smallest ones as size gives you an approximate age or indicates they are young. They are also all males and males are smaller than females but I'm not ready for all that noise. The foods I feed are premium and small. I have observed that they like to nibble on the algae, which is normal. Idk.
 

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