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Experienced fish keepers: What are you feeding your fish?

Conort2 said:
I didn’t get them from TA but they are German so may be the same thing. They’re very good, well accepted by all fish including Poecilocharax Weitzmani which can be very fussy.

As for the black worms I haven’t found a fish that doesn’t love them, they suck them up like spaghetti.

cheers

Conor
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Do you rehydrate/soak the black worms before feeding, or just feed them dry?
 
Wookii said:
Do you rehydrate/soak the black worms before feeding, or just feed them dry?
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Did you buy loose or the cubed version? I’ve only used the cubes, I either stick this directly to the glass or soak them and mash these up a bit to form a paste which then sinks for my corydoras.
 
Conort2 said:
Did you buy loose or the cubed version? I’ve only used the cubes, I either stick this directly to the glass or soak them and mash these up a bit to form a paste which then sinks for my corydoras.
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Yeah I bought 25g of the cubes.
 
Discus are said to do exceptionally well on tubifex and I was thinking of culturing blackworm in a sump refugium primarily as high quality food for my black rams.
 
I was also going to culture daphnia and shrimp there too and adding asselus to the main tank. There seems something more wholistic about including inverts in freshwater. It seems to bring a fuller lifecycle. If anyone has concerns on that approach I’d love to hear them as after advice.
 
MattC said:
I was also going to culture daphnia and shrimp there too and adding asselus to the main tank. There seems something more wholistic about including inverts in freshwater. It seems to bring a fuller lifecycle.
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The thing that switched me to marine aquariums over tropical in the past was that it was much easier to keep a fuller natural ecosystem. I loved all the shrimp, worms, brittlestars, pods etc and it often fascinated me more than the corals and fish. Since then the freshwater side has got massively into shrimp and other tiny inverts and it's nice that people are keeping a more diverse tank, couple that with the few who look even wider and add other critters and I think you are on to a winner.
 
I recently set up a deep sand bed in my 125 gallon which grows worms and all kinds of critters which my fish love. I have discus, corys, tetras, glass catfish, saes, kuhli loaches.

To supplement I blend beefheart, krill, peas and garlic with vitamin water.

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Artificial: bug bites, dennerle complete 2mm, tropica flakes.
Living: Grindal worms, C. blackworm, wingless fruit flies, springtails, the odd whiteworm.
Seasonal: mosq. larvae, bloodworm, aphids, small caterpillars.
Also blanched nettles, pollen for some fish and shrimp. And pellets for algae eaters.
 
Live food when I can get it
Frozen bloodworm, brine shrimp, daphnia etc.
TetraMin Tropical Flakes.
Freeze dried tubifex worms.
Algae wafers
 
Reviving a defunct thread. My family has recently acquired a dehydrator, Lord knows what for, but I immediately thought of using it for fish feed. If one were to dehydrate a mixture containing raw fish, would that give it a shelf life comparable to commercial dry foods? Last time I made some fish food I used some bell pepper, garlic, heart, calamari, krill, spinach/kale, and a couple of other things. Some lean fish, for example.

Perhaps the fish could be avoided altogether, and calamari/prawns used as to minimize the amount of fat. Or even rely solely on beef heart, this is never going to be the main course, merely something to toss in now and again or when the culture needs a break. So beef heart + all the veggies...
 
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I shall carry on the revival as it's a good thread. I mainly feed Fluval Bug bites. I also feed frozen bloodworm/dapnia once a week, I bought far too much for my little fish so it's been in the freezer for a year or two taking up space. Seems a lot are live feeding, I really should try it...
 
FrozenShivers said:
I shall carry on the revival as it's a good thread. I mainly feed Fluval Bug bites. I also feed frozen bloodworm/dapnia once a week, I bought far too much for my little fish so it's been in the freezer for a year or two taking up space. Seems a lot are live feeding, I really should try it...
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I have not progressed to live food yet. I know I should, but I am absolutely paranoid something will go wrong or the fish get sick! Someone reassure me!
 
Bradders said:
Someone reassure me!
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I'm not sure how live food could possibly cause fish to become ill, outside of introducing bugs caught from a wild pond or lake (even then it seems unlikely). Certainly for daphnia grown in buckets in your garden, or Grindal worms grown in tubs in your house, I don't believe there to be any risk at all.
 
Hi all,
Bradders said:
but I am absolutely paranoid something will go wrong or the fish get sick! Someone reassure me!
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I agree with the others, live food <"is absolutely fine">, in fact it is the best food you can feed your fish.

If I was just to culture one food now it would be <"Live food culture - Crangonyx pseudogracilis"> fish love them and they are a more balanced diet than Grindal or Black worms.

Some people only feed terrestrial invertebrates (Drosophila (Fruitfly), Grindal Worms etc), but mine get PYO Daphnia, Crangonyx, California Blackworms, Mosquito larvae etc.

cheers Darrel
 
The theory I stand by is what the Aquarium Science.org bloke wrote. Every tank is full of pathogens, you can't avoid them. Keep them healthy, and that's what an immune system is for.
 
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