Subject: Feeding Your Fish -- Frozen or Live Foods?

Several breeds of fish will only eat live food, but the availability of live food can be limited at certain times of the year. In this instance we will need to stock up on frozen live food.

To accomplish this, live food is frozen in a minimum of water at a very low temperature; this fast-freezes the food while maintaining the high quality of the food.

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There are many types of frozen foods available, which can be stored for months in the freezer.

Frozen foods must be completely thawed before feeding, or you could have problems with inflammation of the intestines or other health problems with your fish.

Most fish are suited to eat only dry food all of their lives, and may have been bred on a diet of dry food. With the majority of fish, however, an occasional treat of live food or even frozen live food is another means of assuring greater health.

Some fish depend only on live food as it is the movement of the food that causes them to grab at the food in the first place.

Live foods are sold in most pet stores all year long, and consist of tubivex or blood worms, brine shrimp, or daphnia.

Mealworms, crickets, and even insect larvae are appropriate for larger fish, and in some instances you can use earthworms and waxmoth larvae.

As with any type of feeding, only put in enough for the fish to devour in five minutes. Any food left after five minutes should be removed from the tank and disposed of.

When feeding live food, you should unplug the filter, especially when feeding daphnia (water fleas) as they are easily drawn into the filter.

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If possible, it is best for us to collect live food for our aquariums ourselves.

Because water fleas, or daphnia, can clear a cloudy aquarium within a few hours of floating algae, they may be kept as a living filter.

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Bill Anderson
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