Feeding your fish

It is important to understand the way of providing adequate food supply for your fish and when to feed them. A hungry aquarium fish may tend to focus its attention to the smaller inmates of the tank if it is unable to find any food.

A correct diet should include the right type, form and amount of food.

Types of food for fish:

1. Manufactured food
2. Live food obtained from nature or cultured
3. Household scraps

1. Manufactured food

several forms: pellet, flake, tablet/granular
made from: cereals, meat, fish, vegetables, vitamins and minerals
can be fed to all types of fish usually unless breed-specific variations are included in the package

i) Pellets: floating pellets for surface-feeding fish and sinking pellets for bottom dwellers

ii) Tablet food: can be stuck to a surface to provide feeding stations at different water levels

iii) Flakes: for carnivores, vegetarians and omnivores. Flakes float at first and then sinks slowly allowing the mid-water swimmers to eat
iv) Granular food: for bottom-dwellers. Bottom dwellers are mostly nocturnal eaters and therefore serving food at night is preferred
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2. Frozen, freeze-dried food

water fleas (Daphnia)
black mosquito larvae for fish for breeding and shows
blood worms
bone shrimp (Artemia)
pacific shrimp
krill
tubifex worms

3. Household scraps

oatflakes
chopped spinach leaves
chopped/shredded lettuce
fish roe
slivers of raw fish meat
crumbled cheese
slivers of cooked white meat such as chicken
slivers of raw, lean meat

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