It is time to feed your fish and you want to know, “what is the best food for your fish?” There are tons of fish foods on the market and you will find the one that is more appealing to you. I am just going to look at the basics of what your fish require. For starters, you need to provide your fish with a high protein and vitamins meal. Know what your fish prefer to eat and make sure to feed them the right amount per day.
The best type of food to provide your fish with is natural food, food that they would find in their own environment. I understand that it can become expensive but if you want your fish to live a long and full life than I suggest you spend the extra money. I believe that if you go cheap with the food you can find yourself buying more fish to replace the dead ones and that can get a bit costly in addition to frustrating. Let’s brake down the diet of your common fish. An omnivore prefers to eat both plants and animals so they are going to need a variety. An herbivore prefers to only eat plants. You can start with using seaweed selects for your saltwater fish. They offer a large variety of kinds to choose from. I would go with the basic one, Green Marine Algae. For your freshwater fish you can get Hikari Algae Wafers. They will sink to the bottom of the tank and allow your fish to eat with ease. I prefer to feed my fish frozen vitamin enriched shrimp. You can find this food at any local fish store. Brine shrimp and mysis shrimp are the best and most common to choose from. They provide lots of protein and fat to keep the fish’s immune system strong and metabolism operating at a good pace. The frozen food is for both freshwater and saltwater fish.
I would stay away from any dried food it is artificial most of the time and does not provide enough nutrients or natural behavior for the fish. If you have to buy dried food then the only one I will vouch for is New Life Spectrum Thera+A sinking pellets. This product has all the beneficial nutrients that any type of fish you have can live off of.
Please remember that this is a basic chart of what you need for your most common fish. If you have an exotic fish, one that cost a lot of money, than be sure to do the proper research on that fish so you can provide with the right diet. I can’t emphasize enough on how important it is to feed your fish properly.
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Tim
Food Time!
Never be scared of feeding your fish!
It seems that over the years of listening to fellow service guys and other hobbyist that there is an issue when it is time to feed your fish. So I wanted to dig a little deeper as to, "why are we starving our fish?"
The main reason why people are told to be careful when feeding the fish is to prevent the water quality from becoming real dirty. I would have to agree with this. It is very important to monitor the water parameters on a monthly even bi-weekly basis. But do we need to starve our fish to accomplish this? My answer is "NO" we do not. There are plenty of easy solutions to this matter and I will go over some.
The first could cost a little in the beginning but save you time in the long run. The rule of thumb is when searching for the right filtration you need the max volume of water to travel through your filter at least 4 times per hour. So if that is the “rule of thumb’ then that means your quantity of fish in your tank need to be 2 inches of fish for every gallon of water, make sure to consider the max size of the fish, not what it looks like when you buy it. My approach in this situation would be to purchase a larger filtration system that will have more volume per hour and then I won’t be as limited to the size or quantity of fish I can get.
Here is the cheaper way but more labor is involved. You should already be performing a 20% water change every month. With that in mind, let’s say that you have just the basic filtration and want more fish. From my experience you will need to perform a larger water change per month. To be more of help in this matter, there is such thing as doing to much of a water change so instead of performing a larger water change per month. Break it into 2 or 3 water changes in a month. This way you won’t be risking stressing your fish out or any other inhabitant. I prefer to change my water every week it’s easier on the back.
If you follow these 2 methods you should not be concerned on how much you are feeding your fish. But you are probably still wondering how to tell when enough food is enough. That is very simple, after putting the food in the tank the food should float around for no longer than 3 minutes. I recommend shutting off the filtration and allowing the food to sink to the less aggressive fish and then that way you don’t dirty your filters and potentially waste food, that stuff can get very expensive.
Realize that under feeding can cause illness to the fish and potentially kill it. That is why it is so important to not feed less and to make sure you are feeding your fish a healthy nutritional diet. I will go more into the good and bad in food choice.
Thanks,
Tim
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