Aquarium fish feed

As fish food is called food which is offered kept in aquariums and ponds fish for food. Commercially dried, frozen and live food is available.

Dry Food

Dry food is offered in the form of flakes, granules and food tablets. The composition is very different and directed to the needs of different kinds of fish. United, for example, the offer for discus fish that are in the diet to be very tricky.

For bottom fish such as catfish, as well as for those in the hunting and now popular freshwater shrimps are special food tablets that rapidly sink to the bottom offered. They are available in purely vegetarian variants for herbivorous fish or fortified with molluscs and crustaceans.

Frozen food

Frozen or frozen food, there are pressed into cubes, the thaw very quickly. Similar to the dry food, there are also frozen food in a different composition. It may contain mosquito larvae, daphnia, small shrimp, mussel pieces or plankton.

Food from the kitchen

Aquarium fish take a whole range of plant foods as fodder, which also play a role in human nutrition. Herbivores gladly accept lettuce or spinach leaves, carrots and cucumber slices will be happy abgeraspelt of catfish, potato and zucchini slices on the other hand should be blanched before they are offered to the fish. Peas should be pressed slightly into the aquarium before introduction, so that the soft interior is more accessible for the fish.

Small pieces of fresh fish may also be offered. However, the residues must be removed after feeding, so that the aquarium water is not too heavily loaded. Different experiences have aquarists, however, made ​​with the feeding of raw beef heart.

Live food

Even as the first aquarium in the 19th century were maintained, the catch of mosquito larvae and water fleas from ponds was a typical employment by aquarists. Live food represents a large and important social aspect of dining slip of aquarium fish dar. It contains important fiber and, in some fish species also increase the spawning or even trigger. From the self- trapping of live food most aquarists, however, are disposed of. Firstly, the fishing is only allowed on non-protected pools and ponds. In addition, the " plankton " and most surface waters subject to the fisheries law. There is also the risk that diseases and unwanted organisms be introduced with the aquarium. Especially for Tubifex (also called stream tube worms ) there is evidence that they can transmit diseases. Therefore, they are fed by most aquarists only in frozen or freeze-dried version.

Live feed from rearing offers the pet trade. Particularly suitable are brine shrimp, whose eggs can be purchased and can be grown yourself.

Can be fed:

  • Mosquito larvae
  • Artemia salina
  • Krill
  • Water fleas
  • Cyclops
  • Tubifex
  • Small fruit fly - Drosophila melanogaster
  • Large fruit fly - Drosophila hydei
  • Turbatrix aceti
  • Paramecium - paramecia
  • Mexican shrimp - Hyalella azteca
  • Gammarus - Gammarus pulex
  • Enchytraeen - Enchytraeus albidus
  • Microworms
Cyclops (genus)
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