Aquarium Fish - Aquarium Fish Food Tips

A well balanced diet for your aquarium fish is bare necessities for thier survival. As it has been known that most of the commercially available dry fish foods are always unbalanced. In a numbers of cases, the vitamin content will gradually decline at room temperature and since majority of the dry food for tropical fish often used can only be kept for about three months, it is advisable to always buy fish-feeds in small packs rather than in one large pack.

The feed preferably should be kept dry in a refrigerator. Nevertheless, all fish do appreciate a change of diet and will acknowledge your consideration with more interesting behavior, better colours, and better well-being. You should supplement the change of diet with live food; majority of which now comes in irradiated freeze dried forms to make sure that they are disease free.

Stated below are few fish food that could be found in major aquarium fish shops and I have group them into two. And they are freeze-dried foods and flake foods.

Freeze-dried foods

Freeze-dried foods are always available in aquarium stores. They are popular foods for aquarium fish. They have single animalingredient like blood worms,tubifex worm, and mosquito larvae each. Aquarist should know that freeze-foods are not in themselves complete diet but they can be mix with flake food or other type of freeze-dried foods.

TUBIFEX - This is a traditional popular food liked by most fishes. They are small red worms that live at the bottom of streams and rivers especially where large amounts of organic particles are present. Hence, it is difficult for the aquarist to collect them life from their habitat. It is therefore preferable to buy Tubifex from pet shops where they are already clean, freeze-dried and concentrated into cube forms.

Flake foods

The most popular and highly recommended brands are Aquarian®, Tetra®, and Wardley®. They are different in price and quality. Wardley is the least expensive among the three. But, the Aquarian and Tetra are richer in specialty flakes compare to Wardley.

From personal experience, tubifex tubes seem to be the most exciting feed to use for fishes. The cube can be stuck to the front inside the wall of the aquarium. The fishes in the tank will immediately come forward and bit off pieces of worms excitedly until satisfied.

You don’t need to bother removing the rest worms since they seldom pollute and in most case fishes return to the feed for further fill.