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Pellet Food
The Right Food For The Right Fish
Flake food is a good all round daily food for most fish. It usually contains all the ingredients, minerals and vitamins that fish need on a daily basis. Flakes will float initially for the surface feeding fish and eventually slowly float through the water for the mid water and bottom feeding fish. Be sure that all the flakes are not consumed by the surface feeding fish if flakes are all that you are feeding. I would highly recommend buying a well known, reputable brand of fish flakes as there are a lot of cheap alternatives that may contain harmful ingredients and I have heard a few horror stories of whole tanks of fish dying after being fed cheap flake food.
Specialised Pellets
Specialised pellet foods are produced specifically to the needs of certain species of fish. For example cichlid spirulina pellets contain the exact dietary requirements of fish from Lake Malawi that naturally would eat algae and vegetation. Oranda and Lionhead pellets are designed to help fancy goldfish combat swimbladder problems and also contain ingredients from their natural diet. Pellets can also be bought as sinking food for catfish. These are usually aimed at carnivorous and scavenging catfish such as Corydoras and Hoplos.
Sinking wafer foods are to be fed to bottom feeding fish such as Plecs, Corydoras and other catfish. They are usually either algae based or fish based depending on wether you are feeding a sucker mouth plec (algae wafers) or scavenging catfish such as corydoras (sinking wafers). Most other fish will also feed on wafers as they sink to the bottom of your tank and this is fine.
Frozen foods come in also different types but the most popular ones are Bloodworm, Brineshrimp and Daphnia. Frozen foods are great as a treat food along side your daily food and have great health and colour benefits to your fish. I would recommend feeding frozen foods 2 days a week as a supplement to flake foods. Frozen foods are also vital for certain species of fish that will not eat flake foods such as puffer fish and other more unusual species. You should check with your aquatic shop when buying unusual fish what they are feeding on in the shop.
Live Food
There is a lot of debate about wether feeding live food to your fish is safe. There are chances of the live food (bloodworm, brineshrimp, daphnia) passing on parasites to your fish and making them ill. Some aquatic centres may still offer live foods for sale and certain species of fish may still require live feeding.
Top Tips
Always buy a good quality fish food, and when you find one that you are happy with and your fish like then stick to it.
Vary the diet of your fish and ensure that all fish are getting enough food at feeding time.
Feed your fish at the right time of day, particularly catfish as most of these are nocturnal and will be looking for food at night.
Keep you fish food dry and out of reach of pets and children.
Always remove any uneaten food after feeding to prevent it rotting in the water and causing water quality problems.
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Budgie doesn't like pellet food and is depressed?
I changed her food gradually to pellets and I have them grinded up so she can eat them good. She eats them, but for the past few days she's been sitting in her cage with feathers ruffled and looking sad. Should I just give in and give her seed that she likes? I don't like it when she is sad.
She needs to go to the vet. If she was eating them fine and has stopped, along with a puffed appearance, she is sick. See if she'll eat seed; if she eats voraciously she's probably starving. Earlier she may have been playing with or even grinding the pellets without ingesting them. So yes--try to feed her seed and see what happens. If she runs to her food dish and chows down and looks better after an hour or so you're probably out of the woods. Better to eat a seed diet than nothing at all! Then try again to convert her to pellets but go even more slowly and carefully.
edit: If she doesn't run and eat and look better right away, get her to the vet ASAP!
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