live fish food ?

Question

were is the best place to get fresh fish food from for tropical fish ?

Answer 1

Aquatic stores. I feed my coldwater fish bloodworms they have a variety of live foods such as brine shrimp etc. They also should have live foods for tropical fish. I prefer coldwater fish myself they grow enormous and can live for years. The Aquatic i go to is called fishy friends aquatics in Basildon. I have provided the website.

Answer 2

Most local aquarium shops will sell live food and they sell frozen variety's of foods too. You will find many other choices are available and numerous varieties of flake. I recommend you feed as varied a diet as possible. I have frogs who have live or frozen bloodworm but they need feeding only every two days. My fish need feeding twice a day. Frogs are slow feeders and live bloodworm have a quick tendency to borrow into the gravel before they can be caught. The fish can't dig them out, the frogs do. The fish get enough of them to stop the frogs being overfed. The fish though eat dapnia flake (which frogs wont eat) and most brine shrimp before the frogs can reach them. Than means I can safely feed the fish Its a mixed community, I've also got bottom feeders that are vegetarian so need sinking foods. The shop is too far away to visit more than twice a week. So frozen is the fishes no1. It's as easy keeping a large variety of frozen foods as it is to have one.Since changing the way I fed my fish I've rarely needed to treat fish diseases. Losses are fewer, All are thriving and in good colour. My neons are so bright I may need sunglasses soon!

Answer 3

How to Feeding your Freshwater Tropical Aquarium Fish
Besides watching your fish swim from side to side in your aquarium... feeding your freshwater tropical aquarium fish is one of the most enjoyable parts of aquarium ownership.

What, When, and How much to feed your Fish...

Know your fishes Food requirements...
Earlier we mentioned that you should learn about your fishes requirements before you buy them. This is especially important when it comes to feeding. Some fish are bottom feeders, some are surface or mid-water feeders, some are herbivores while others are omnivores.

This doesn't mean that all the fish in your tank have to be the same kind of feeders. The answer is feeding small amounts of multiple food types. Flake food for the surface and mid-water feeders, and sinking pellets for the bottom feeders. Frozen foods as a treat.

What to Feed...
You wouldn't want to eat Macaroni and Cheese every day. Neither do your fish. To vary my fishes diet I feed several types of flake food using a different brand each day. In addition I feed my bottom feeders several types of sinking pellets, rotating the brand every day or two. One day I might feed an algae pellet the next a shrimp or a meaty type pellet. Twice a week I feed either frozen brine shrimp, blood worms, or mosquito larve.

The choices available in dried flake or pelleted foods is quite large. Over the years I've narrowed my selections down to TetraMin Flakes, OSI Flakes, Wardley Flakes, Hikari Sinking Wafers, Hikari Algae Wafers and Hikari Micro Pellets.

How much to Feed...
For the new aquarist it will take some time to learn how much to feed your fish. As a general rule of thumb... don't give them any more food than they can eat in 3 or 4 minutes. After 4 minutes if there is food laying on the bottom of the tank... you've probably feed a little to much.

If you have some bottom feeders like Catfish or Corydoras in the tank they will cleanup the few flakes left laying on the bottom of the tank... but don't use them as a scapegoat for overfeeding. Over feeding is a sure way to throw your biological cycle out of wack.

When to Feed...
I feed my fish small amounts twice a day... although some say to only feed once a day. In the morning before work I'll give them a little TetraMin flakes, and in the evening I might feed them some OSI flake or frozen food.

However many times you feed them per day... learn how much they eat... so you don't overfeed.

A question I hear frequently is... my vacation is coming up... will my fish live without me? Vacations and your Freshwater Tropical Aquarium Fish.

Related Topics
Frozen Freshwater Tropical Fish Foods

Answer 4

Pet shops, or the Internet. But be careful of live food because they can introduce disease and parasites. Have you thought about freeze dried food? Interpet do a very good range and my fish love them.
(I once scooped some mosquito larvae out of a water butt in the garden for my fish and kept them in a container overnight, but by the time I opened it next morning they'd all turned into mosquito's! A bloody shock I got there and no mistake).

Answer 5

A tropical fish/pet shop. My friend keeps fish and all year round he keeps troughs of rainwater outside into which mosquitoes and other insects lay their eggs. The larvae hatch out and the water is alive with them. He uses this to feed his fish. He puts an occasional old banana skin/apple core in the water to feed these larvae. Good luck.

Answer 6

from the tropical fish shop daphnia are a good food for fish as some get int the gravel and start to breed the fish then hunt them out

Answer 7

i'm particular they'll. I even have somewhat some fish that I feed flake food and frequently change to stay and vice versa. some fish are predatorial and could start to "hunt their food" as in slowly swimming closer perhaps turning around while the stay food seems. its exciting to observe yet they often times have a puzzling time re-adjusting and attempt to "hunt" the flakes or pellets. in case you in simple terms have a goldfish or some thing it quite is omnivorous, do not undertaking and in simple terms feed whichever you %

Answer 8

I don't know about live fish food, other than feeders, but frozen blood worms, tubifex worms and krill can be found at any local pet store that stocks fish.
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Answer 9

Try blood worm. You can get it either live (in a bag of water) or frozen in cubes which you have to cut it up. Triopical fish love em!

Answer 10

Buy the fish egg at the any pet store.