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What are you guys feeding your fish?
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I have a lot of fish but most the food is for African cichlids as I like to mix their pellets.
I also have some HikarI micro pellets, frozen blood worms and brine shrimp, and various sinking wafers. Plus brine shrimp eggs (normal and decapsulated), micro, grindal and white worms.
For the axolotl I give him frozen sucker fish, earth worms, the occasional culled fish, omegaone freeze dried shrimp, and soft salmon pellets.
I also have some HikarI micro pellets, frozen blood worms and brine shrimp, and various sinking wafers. Plus brine shrimp eggs (normal and decapsulated), micro, grindal and white worms.
For the axolotl I give him frozen sucker fish, earth worms, the occasional culled fish, omegaone freeze dried shrimp, and soft salmon pellets.
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What a variety lol inner your fish are happy !
It seems to be working out pretty good lol clean the filters once a week and make sure all the power heads are always clean and it seems to be doing great
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I personally use -
HikarI MinI Algae Wafers
HikarI Bio betta gold
Bloodworms
Zucchini, Cucumber & Spinach
Feeds Bristelnose Pleco, Apple Snails & Betta
HikarI MinI Algae Wafers
HikarI Bio betta gold
Bloodworms
Zucchini, Cucumber & Spinach
Feeds Bristelnose Pleco, Apple Snails & Betta
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If anyone is bored and has a couple hours to spare you can make your own frozen food that's a lot better then any store bought.
1st you need a food processor ( don't use your Wife's or your Moms, or else you will have to buy them a new one )
Ingredients:
1-lb beef liver
3-cups jumbo shrimp
1/2-lb cod
8 cubes frozen blood worms
1/2 cup of spinach
6-algae wafers
1/2 cup preferred fish flakes
2-eggs
1-clove of garlic
5ml of Vitamin C
1/4 tsp Metroflex
5ml Vita Chem
1- cup of hot water
Mix everything in the processor and then put in minI ice cube trays and freeze.
Fish go crazy over this. Enjoy
1st you need a food processor ( don't use your Wife's or your Moms, or else you will have to buy them a new one )
Ingredients:
1-lb beef liver
3-cups jumbo shrimp
1/2-lb cod
8 cubes frozen blood worms
1/2 cup of spinach
6-algae wafers
1/2 cup preferred fish flakes
2-eggs
1-clove of garlic
5ml of Vitamin C
1/4 tsp Metroflex
5ml Vita Chem
1- cup of hot water
Mix everything in the processor and then put in minI ice cube trays and freeze.
Fish go crazy over this. Enjoy
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Omega One Flakes, Pelets, Freeze dried bloodworms, frozen bloodworms, Sperlina, Fluval Bug Bites, and the occasional veg for the BN Pleco (he enjoys the Omega One pellets as well)
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I feed a bit of a variety,
all my Bigger fish (Barbs, Angels mainly) all get a hI nutrient granular food on a daily basis. Bottom feeders all get Bottom feeder food.
at least twice a week I give all fish a treat of frozen food and try to mix it up a bit with bloodworm and brineshrimp.
shrimps get a Lollipop fish treat once a week.
Makes for a fun filled feeding process everyday.
all my Bigger fish (Barbs, Angels mainly) all get a hI nutrient granular food on a daily basis. Bottom feeders all get Bottom feeder food.
at least twice a week I give all fish a treat of frozen food and try to mix it up a bit with bloodworm and brineshrimp.
shrimps get a Lollipop fish treat once a week.
Makes for a fun filled feeding process everyday.
My first attempt at homemade "perfect pleco food" to get my finicky plecos to put on some weight didn't work out.
Into the blender:
Big hand full of shell on shrimp.
Big handful frozen peas
Monster handful spinach.
Forgot the earth worms
Forgot the spirilina
2 small cucumbers that were on the way out at the local grocery so they were super cheap.
1 head of garlic (because they put it in catfish bait)
Forgot the cuttlefish bone
Blended it up and got 3 cups worth.
Boiled a cup of water and added 3 tablespoons agar agar to it while blending it with a stick blender. It set up more than I wanted so I had to add the cold mix to it which cooked the cold mix enough to make the house smell delicious.
Then I poured it into a plastic food box and let it set. Then cut it into chunks.
Only the BN are interested in it but they eat everything. It also seems too firm for them to eat so I may have to reboil a chunk or few with more water to soften. They have been chewing on it for 2 days and not made much of a dent.
One chunk is missing in a tank that has a nugget and 2 hungries in it (I do not remember what they are they are just my next "grow a big pleco" project and I'm trying to ween myself off my love of rhinos, try something new)
So I totally failed to come up with "perfect pleco food", what I did come up with was "Snail Crack". A chunk of this pulls all the snails in a large tank to it in short order, then they form a mountain on it. I may just freeze the rest and use it when I need to get all the snails out of a tank without the use of puffers.
Maybe it is that in the other tanks the plecos are unwilling to make their way through the snails to try nibbling the food?
Into the blender:
Big hand full of shell on shrimp.
Big handful frozen peas
Monster handful spinach.
Forgot the earth worms
Forgot the spirilina
2 small cucumbers that were on the way out at the local grocery so they were super cheap.
1 head of garlic (because they put it in catfish bait)
Forgot the cuttlefish bone
Blended it up and got 3 cups worth.
Boiled a cup of water and added 3 tablespoons agar agar to it while blending it with a stick blender. It set up more than I wanted so I had to add the cold mix to it which cooked the cold mix enough to make the house smell delicious.
Then I poured it into a plastic food box and let it set. Then cut it into chunks.
Only the BN are interested in it but they eat everything. It also seems too firm for them to eat so I may have to reboil a chunk or few with more water to soften. They have been chewing on it for 2 days and not made much of a dent.
One chunk is missing in a tank that has a nugget and 2 hungries in it (I do not remember what they are they are just my next "grow a big pleco" project and I'm trying to ween myself off my love of rhinos, try something new)
So I totally failed to come up with "perfect pleco food", what I did come up with was "Snail Crack". A chunk of this pulls all the snails in a large tank to it in short order, then they form a mountain on it. I may just freeze the rest and use it when I need to get all the snails out of a tank without the use of puffers.
Maybe it is that in the other tanks the plecos are unwilling to make their way through the snails to try nibbling the food?
For my pond:
Koi tablets
algae
Tanks:
Blood worms
live brine shrimp
baby brine shrimp
frozen brine shrimp(they refuse to eat)
earthworms
fish flakes(spirulina)
minI pellets
cucumber
shrimp pellets
algae wafers
egg yolk
mealworms(after bearded dragons are done with them)
Koi tablets
algae
Tanks:
Blood worms
live brine shrimp
baby brine shrimp
frozen brine shrimp(they refuse to eat)
earthworms
fish flakes(spirulina)
minI pellets
cucumber
shrimp pellets
algae wafers
egg yolk
mealworms(after bearded dragons are done with them)
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Koi pond gets small and medium koi pellets. Other two ponds with danios and minnows don’t get feed at all they eat what ever falls in. Started with 4 of each type of fish in each pond now have hundreds of each.
big tank with oscars, blood parrots, severums and silver dollars get a Flake, colour pellets, medium high protein pellets, large protein colour pellets (hand feed to oscars), frozen- blood worms, mysis, brine shrimp, beef heart, frozen cichlid mix.
2ft grow out tank mainly flake.
big tank with oscars, blood parrots, severums and silver dollars get a Flake, colour pellets, medium high protein pellets, large protein colour pellets (hand feed to oscars), frozen- blood worms, mysis, brine shrimp, beef heart, frozen cichlid mix.
2ft grow out tank mainly flake.
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Fluval bug bites, aqueon betta food (I don't use it anymore), tropical fish pellets, hikarI minI algae wafers, frozen bloodworms, freeze dried bloodworms, freeze dried mysis, freeze dried daphnia
Holy cow I have a lot of food
Holy cow I have a lot of food
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Northfin Cichlid Pellets, New Life Spectrum Cichlid Pellets (no longer buying after I'm done with the last tub, switching to Northfin), supermarket shrimp, supermarket fish, mosquito larvae, any other "sea food" I have in the fridge sometimes.
I used to feed algae wafers for my Pleco, but all my other fish gobbles up the entire wafer in one bite every time I drop them in so my Pleco has zero chance of getting one. So my Pleco gets whatever I feed the other fish (Northfin pellets, supermarket sea foods, etc.).
I used to feed algae wafers for my Pleco, but all my other fish gobbles up the entire wafer in one bite every time I drop them in so my Pleco has zero chance of getting one. So my Pleco gets whatever I feed the other fish (Northfin pellets, supermarket sea foods, etc.).
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Reedfish eats 1 redworm daily
Giant danios eat a mealworm each daily and a small amount of flakes in the morning, and once a week they get frozen blood worms instead of a live mealworm. Watching the ropefish use his sniffer to find the redworm is the best! I swear he is blind but that sniffer does wonders lol normally 5 to 15 mins of sniffing around the tank before he finds it! Do have a video if anyone would like to see them eat, about 6mins long I believe!
So this week on "Will a Pleco eat it?"
Apricot joins last weeks prune and TVP on the "no" list.
Blanched Daikon gets light nibbles over 36 hours. Leaving it in to see if they like it better over the next 24 hours.
Blanched broccolI is ignored for 24 hours and then demolished with alarming speed. Just like brussel sprouts.
Cucumber not nearly as loved as zucchinI (I always fed zuch to the plecos and cucumber to me).
After several days they managed to eat their block of the food I made. So they will keep eating it until gone.
Apricot joins last weeks prune and TVP on the "no" list.
Blanched Daikon gets light nibbles over 36 hours. Leaving it in to see if they like it better over the next 24 hours.
Blanched broccolI is ignored for 24 hours and then demolished with alarming speed. Just like brussel sprouts.
Cucumber not nearly as loved as zucchinI (I always fed zuch to the plecos and cucumber to me).
After several days they managed to eat their block of the food I made. So they will keep eating it until gone.
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grumble grumble grumble.
So in the long quest to find food some of my plecos love, I have found something my L134s love.
I have tried everything fancy brands, the best I found was wardly shrimp pellets.
I ran out in one room and it was late so I didn't care to walk to another room to get more. So I just fed them a pinch of the Omega One flake I buy in a 5lb pail. They love it and clean up every bit, no wardly mess there.
So after trying every food with "pleco" in the name, they like my cheap flake. I'd never think of feeding plecos flake.
So in the long quest to find food some of my plecos love, I have found something my L134s love.
I have tried everything fancy brands, the best I found was wardly shrimp pellets.
I ran out in one room and it was late so I didn't care to walk to another room to get more. So I just fed them a pinch of the Omega One flake I buy in a 5lb pail. They love it and clean up every bit, no wardly mess there.
So after trying every food with "pleco" in the name, they like my cheap flake. I'd never think of feeding plecos flake.
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Hi,
This is an old comment but I scrolled through this post and saw that no one responded. I also see a lot of people post this. So here's my take on the topic.
Let me first rule out the obvious. It all depends on what kind of fish you have. I have a bunch of different types of fish, including puffers. They are straight omnivores and only get frozen and live food. Their entire diet consists of blood worms, snails, mysis shrimp, and brine shrimp. They are extremely healthy as they only require meaty foods.
My danios and tetras on the other hand have different dietary requirements. They're omnivores and need to follow that diet. Flakes and pellets (from a high quality brand, not one that uses lots of meal products) are great because they include meat, algae, kelp, veggies, and other vitamins/minerals added directly. It's a rounded diet in one can. If you feed them multiple kinds of dry food like Bug Bites, NLS pellets, Omega One, and a Spurilina based pellet/flake, they'll be even healthier! So it's recomended you use a few types of dry food that have different ingredients and give them frozen food a couple times a week.
The frozen food itself isn't bad, it's actually very healthy, especially for carnivores. It just doesn't include all the nutrients your fish need to be properly nourished.
Most omnivorous fish we keep as pets eat bugs, small crustaceans, worms, and algae, so it's good to ensure their diet consists of all of that.
Random Great Topic!
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