fish food

[no.1chuy]

alrite so its time to buy more fish food so what are some of the best flake food out there? they will be for the fish listed in my sig i heard that good foods is needed to bring out the best color of the fish.

 

[unwritten law]

usually the most expensive is the best honestly.... a variety is best. Flake, pellet, bloodworms, etc... for your cichlids.

 

[no.1chuy]

is there a specific brand or all they all kinda the same? i mean only comparing them in the same price range

 

[rgwrajagiri]

hai

20 Gallon High Reef
2 orange skunk clowns, 1 yellow watchman goby, soft corals, zoas

35 Gallon 1 peacock eel 1 tiretrack eel 4 dwarf
puffers 4 creamsicle mollies 3 orange
swordtails 3 pineapple swordtails

I think is the best fish food.

 

[Violet]

I have honestly never found foods advertised as "colour enhancing" to do any better than regular foods. Maybe that is just my experience. A variety is best, as unwritten law said. I used to buy one that had four different types in seperate parts in one container, so I could alternate them. I usually have: shrimp pellets, algae wafers, mixed flake and freeze dried bloodworms at all times, then add whatever seems interesting as well. Frozen is good to add as well. Maybe reasearching the basic dietary needs of each fish, then taking a list of those with you will help so you can look at the ingredients on each food?

 

[Newman]

If you find a LFS that carries live brine shrimp, get some of those too for your smaller fish.

 

[no.1chuy]

well i think i've read that livebearers are mostly vegetarians and that should be thier main deit supplemented with protien is that right? what about the chiclids main diet protien supplemented with greens?

 

[no.1chuy]

i've tryed brine shrimp but its a pain to keep them alive

 

[Newman]

Buy a small amount, and feed them out in a day or two.
Livebearers love food with spirulina in it. that should be the base vegi diet for them. add some real vegetables like peas or romaine lettuce, and some protein stuff like frozen bloodworms and freezedried black tubifex or brine shrimp.

No idea on the cichlids man as ive never dealt with them, but i'd imagine romaine lettuce is kinda universal for fish. try peas too and other vegetables you find that they respond to. This is in addition to their base, flake or freezedried diet.

 

[Newman]

I have seen cichlids feasting on broccoli so thats worth a try.