What do guppies eat? I have 2, female and male. The female is eating fish flakes, but the male isn't eating it at all. Help?
2006-08-05 03:10:46 · 11 answers · asked by Tea 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
hey, what's guppie food?
2006-08-05 03:16:13 · update #1
the food does not sink and plus all the other fish hog the food.
2006-08-05 08:32:45 · update #2
Guppies will eat shredded earth worms but few people seem willing to shred them. Everyone has seen earthworm castings on lawns. The worms eat huge amounts of organic matter mixed with soil. They digest and absorb but a small proportion of what they ingest. Therefore, earthworms, shredded tend to muddy the water unless they are kept unfed for a day or two, or long enough for them to disgorge, or they may be shredded and placed into a fine net and rinsed.
To quickly gather a cup of earthworms without having to dig for them, put enough potassium permangenate crystals into a pail of water to make it a deep pink. Pour this solution on a patch of grass and the worms will start coming out of the ground in a few minutes. Although a bit messy, they are an excellent guppy food.
2006-08-05 03:18:22 · answer #1 · answered by Ronnie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Males generally don't get in a hurry to eat they wil take their time and eat any that falls to the bottom. If there are more than 1 male in the tank they may be "Facing off" of intemidating each other from eating. My males take their time but they eat when I'm not watching.
2006-08-05 11:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by weebles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
small commercial foods, lettuce and peas and perfect for the guppies. Always press the peas between your finger and thumb to remove the seed coating. Remove any uneaten vegetable from the tank to avoid pollution. note: even brine shrimps are good but peas and lettuce are much more preffered.
2006-08-05 11:01:36 · answer #3 · answered by the fishkeeper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guppies eat every kind of food I give them: granules, dried tubifex(they like this a lot), flakes, living food(Daphnia, mosquito larves, Artemia salina).
They may eat when you not watch.
2006-08-05 10:55:52 · answer #4 · answered by zsozso 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tropical flakes
2006-08-10 11:13:27 · answer #5 · answered by Becca G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try little bits of lettuce. Fish usually love lettuce. You will need to break it into very small pieces.
2006-08-05 10:15:24 · answer #6 · answered by Kelley S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
feed it some blood worms its an omnivore give it voriate
2006-08-10 18:12:01 · answer #7 · answered by PHANTOM FELINE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guppie food. Maybe he's sick.
2006-08-05 10:14:03 · answer #8 · answered by RIVER 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
other guppies no kidding either.
2006-08-05 12:13:56 · answer #9 · answered by duc602 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mosquito larvae
2006-08-05 10:13:06 · answer #10 · answered by nocturnidae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋