Food

Subject: Food Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:37 pm

What food would you guys recommend to feed my fish that will give them more color and as well keep them healthy? At the moment I feed them flakes,freed dried bloodworms and krill.
55gal tank has
mollies,guppies,platis,dojos,catfish

100gal
oscar,red tail botia, sevrum

Subject: Re: Food Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:45 pm

NLS or Hikari flakes for the 55g, and NLS or Hikari Pellets for the 100g. A good quality staple is necessary in my opinion along with supplements fitting to the fish and their diets.

Subject: Re: Food Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:01 pm

Will this inscrease there color and health? And also if I feed them that along with live blood worms,feeders, freeze dried kill and blood worms

Subject: Re: Food Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:52 am

Stay away from feeders

Rick

Subject: Re: Food Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:45 am

NLS and Hikari IMO are the best as far as nutrition and color enhancing etc.

Subject: Re: Food Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:21 am

I'm a big fan of http://www.kensfish.com/ he has some great stuff.

I agree with cooltow...stay away from the feeders. They can introduce diseases to your tank and really don't offer much nutritional benefit for the fish.

Subject: Re: Food Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:42 pm

I was wondering how do you feed your chiclids? Because for some reason my jds and seruvm stay at the bottom and only my oscar come to the top to eat. I was wondering if its okay to feed a dying fish from a community tank to my oscars/others?

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Bad idea.

Near dying or dead things are bad news, as I doubt it's just old age.

I do my best to avoid live feeders as much as possible for fish.

Oscars that small will take pellets with no trouble. If for some reason you absolutely have to feed them feeder fish you need to get the feeders and quarantine them. If they've come from a chain pet store, you need to wait a month at the bare minimum.

Quarantine, as in keep, in a separate tank, feed and tend to 'em and make sure they got no funk. If one dies, you wait another week before feeding them to anything. From what I've seen, feeder fish are one of the biggest disease vectors out there next to scuzzy water.

Since they're so cheap, pet stores treat feeder fish like complete shit, and usually don't care at all what they look like when they bag 'em up.

Subject: Re: Food Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:48 am

If they arent eating yet they will soon...try some other foods to entice them to eat.

Subject: Re: Food Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:38 am

What should I feed my pleco? Their about 6inches.

Subject: Re: Food Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:07 pm

Also whats the difference between all the hikari pellets?

Subject: Re: Food Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:20 pm

Plecos - algae wafers, blanched zucchini and spinach, shelled peas, and make sure they have some kind of driftwood in the tank to gnaw on. They will also eat larger sinking pellets, sticks and flakes, but won't necessarily get a balanced diet from just those.

There are so many types of Hikari pellets, or fish foods in general of all brands, for that matter. They target different types of fish based on what is in them (some are more vegetable-based and some are more meat-based). There are different sizes for different sizes of fish. Some float, some sink. Some are color enhancing. Some are even medicated to help control internal parasites. It is next to impossible to outline all the types in a post on a forum. You'll hafta read the labels and decide what you need for your fish. For oscars and large cichlids, you'll want an appropriate sized food targeting carnivorous fish.

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