Buying aquarium fish, it is necessary to ask the seller what to feed them, whether it is possible to use bread, meat, or better to give them bloodworms.
All aquarium fish, depending on their diet, can be divided into three types:
- herbivores that feed only on plant foods;
- carnivorous or predatory, which can eat not only worms or larvae, but also small fishes;
omnivores
eat both vegetable food and live food.
What food to feed the fish?
The basis of the diet of most aquarium fish is branded dry food . They contain all the vitamins and minerals necessary for the health of your fish. However, you should buy only natural branded feed, and not fake. You can judge this at the price of feed, which is quite high.
In addition, aquarium fish should be fed regularly with live food: bloodworm, tubule, coretro, alternating between them. However, such feeds have drawbacks. They can poison the fish if the food is of poor quality. To disinfect live food, it should be frozen. Remember that feeding your pets with bloodworm should be done occasionally, as it is poorly digested by fish.
Frozen food is easily stored in the refrigerator, without losing its useful qualities. You can buy a mixture of frozen live food and use it to feed aquarium fish.
Vegetable feeds are also a necessary supplement to the diet of almost all aquarium fish. Although carnivorous fish, of course, do not eat vegetable food. Vegetable feeds are sold in the form of tablets or special flakes. You can feed fish and natural vegetables, for example, ancistrums give cucumbers, squash, cabbage.
Do not feed your pets with bread: from it, the water will begin to grow turbid, and it will have to be changed often. But lean meat, better beef, in a small number of fish is even useful to give. However, remember that you can not overfeed aquarium fish. This can lead to their obesity and death.