Various species of fish inhabit specific water zones and feed there accordingly. Flake food is suitable for fish living at the water surface. Fish inhabiting the middle water layers prefer granular food as well as tablet food. Plant-based feeds with a significant fiber content are the main type of food for herbivorous fish. Bottom-dwelling fish search for food at the bottom of the aquarium or graze on algae. Granular and tablet foods are ideal for these fish species. Diseases associated with improper feeding are usually caused by a monotonous, insufficient, very fatty diet with an increased carbohydrate content, protein deficiency, vitamin deficiency, and mineral deficiency in fish feeds.
• What do fish eat? Planktivores; Phytophages; Limnivores; What you need to know for proper fish feeding; Productive feed; According to their feeding habits, all fish are divided into…; Carnivorous fish; Herbivorous fish; Omnivorous fish.
• For good development and reproduction; Regular overeating; Cold-blooded fish; Moderately well-fed adult fish; Excess dry food; Amount of food consumed.
• Methods of food intake by fish; Size and types of food; Surface-feeding fish; Bottom-dwelling fish; Rules to follow when feeding aquarium fish.
• For healthy growth and magnificent coloration; Carnivorous fish need more protein than herbivores; Beware of fatty liver in fish; Fast-growing juveniles have a greater need for…; Ballast substances; Carbohydrates; Fats; Proteins.
Proper and balanced nutrition.
• Macroelements; Microelements; Minerals; Vitamins; Pigments; Live and fresh foods; Frozen foods; Energy requirements of fish.
• Fish food requirements; Size and types of food; Daily food intake; Diet changes depending on the age of the fish; Amount of food and feeding frequency; Carnivorous fish; Diet of herbivorous fish consists of…; Growing fish need to be fed…; If there are weak fish in the aquarium.
• Most adult fish are fed at intervals; Daily food norm for adult fish; Young fish should be fed…; Large fish will starve; How much food should be given? Fish overeating; Leftover food worsens conditions in the water body.
• Live food is necessary for fish; Fractionation; Washing live food; Bloodworms and tubifex worms; Daphnia; Cyclops; Gammarus; Monotonous diet; Main types of food for aquarium fish.
• Cladocera and copepods; High nutritional value; Risk of introducing diseases and parasites; When feeding fish with live hydrobionts; Frozen food.
• Artemia larvae are an excellent food; For a good yield of nauplii; Decapsulated eggs; Incubation of decapsulated cysts; Non-decapsulated eggs; Freezing.
• Breeding vessel; In a three-liter jar of aquarium water; Artemia incubator; Aeration intensity is adjusted…; Maturation of the first batch of crustaceans; Solution and Artemia eggs are added through openings.
• Feeding fish with Artemia; Artemia crustacean; Whether to catch larvae for feeding; Rearing Artemia; Canned Artemia; Artemia is preserved in the following way; Streptocephalus eggs.
• Daphnia coloration depends on…; Red daphnia is the most nutritious; Peak maximum abundance of daphnia occurs in…; It cleans the aquarium water; Small crustaceans; When feeding fish with daphnia; Daphnia requires a lot of oxygen; They should be stored…
• The largest representative of the genus Daphnia magna; Daphnia pulex; Daphnia longispina; Moina; Bosmina; Chydorus; Simocephalus; Ceriodaphnia reticulata; Daphnia can be bred at home.
• Diaptomus; Cyclops; Cyclops is one of the earliest spring foods; Cyclops larvae; Small cyclops are used to feed fish fry; Helps enhance fish coloration; Feeding portions are caught with a net; Stored in a cool and dark place.
• Bloodworm (Chironomus plumosus); Have bodies of various shades of red; Hemoglobin serves as a source of iron for fish; Estuary bloodworms; Bloodworms are an excellent food for all aquarium fish; In terms of nutritional properties, bloodworms surpass…; Fish should be fed bloodworms…; Main daily food for most fish species; Contraindications; Quality bloodworms should be…
• Bloodworms are stored at low temperatures; Storing bloodworms in damp newspaper; Can be stored inside a raw potato; Keeping in sand with water; In a jar with a small volume of water; In a toilet cistern; Stored in a special bloodworm container; Can be stored frozen.
• Tubifex; In terms of nutritional value, tubifex ranks…; Good food for omnivorous fish; Worms are washed before feeding fish; Tubifex is very high in calories; How to separate small worms from large ones?
Cleaning and storing tubifex worms.
• How to preserve tubifex for feeding fish; It is practically impossible to completely disinfect tubifex; To clean the intestines of tubifex from various pathogens after purchase, you need to…; Intensive express method of cleaning tubifex; Tubifex is best stored in small clumps.
• Glassworm (Corethra plumicornis); Transparent mosquito larvae; Stays close to the water surface; Used to feed already grown fish; Easily digestible food; Corethra can be used to feed adult fish; Frozen corethra; Contraindications; Storage of corethra.
Culex, Gammarus, Mollusks, Earthworms.
• Black-brown mosquito larvae (Culex); These larvae are especially nutritious, quite high-calorie food for ornamental fish; Gammarus; Scuds are used to feed medium and large fish; Hard-to-digest food; Mollusks must be present in the diet of Tetraodons, most cichlid species, loaches, many labyrinth fish, crabs, shrimp; Earthworms (Lumbricus); Good food for large aquarium fish.
• Rotifers (Rotatoria); The smallest multicellular living creatures; The bodies of rotifers are transparent; Along with infusoria and crustacean nauplii, they are part of “living dust”; Rotifers are cultured in glass glassware; The culture is strained before feeding to fry; They can be cultured together with Paramecium.
• Infusoria (Paramaecium caudatum); Belong to the type of protozoa, single-celled microscopically small creatures; Infusoria is a very popular (starter) food for fry; Easily bred at home; Necessary conditions for success are…; Minimal light and temperature are required for culture development; The easiest way to collect infusoria is with a special device; Fry are fed infusoria 3-4 times a day.
• Vinegar eels (Turbatrix, Panagrellus); Micro-food; They are cultured on a mushy oatmeal porridge; Nematodes are harvested from the walls of the cuvette; For raising fish fry; An important food for fry at any time of the year.
• Pot worms and Grindal worms (Enchytraeus); White or yellowish opaque worms; High-protein energy food; Valuable supplementary food for adult fish; Bred in low boxes or cuvettes; In some cases, it is useful to wash the culture; Stored protected from light; When feeding fish, you need to ensure that the fish eat all the worms.
• Very convenient for feeding fish; Fish eat such food with great pleasure; Briquetted frozen food is intended for…; Frozen foods retain almost all beneficial properties; Preparing frozen foods ourselves; Must be stored in the freezer.
• What compound feeds are used in aquarium keeping; Provide fish with all necessary nutrients, vitamins, and microelements; Not all fish can be kept exclusively on dry food all the time; Quality dry foods.
• Food for cichlids, catfish, discus, herbivorous, and carnivorous fish; Popular foods for tropical fish; When buying dry food; Foods differ by their purpose; Foods differ by texture; Quality dry foods.
• Flakes and dried natural products; Granular and tablet food; Micro-granules; Freeze-dried foods; Lyophilized foods; Extruded foods; Plankton; Jelly.
• Dry compound feeds; Modern dry foods include…; Professional compound feeds; Flake foods; Nutritional value of food; Come in all colors and sizes; Contains a large amount of protein for enhanced fish growth; Chips; Outwardly resemble multicolored confetti; They contain significantly more energy.
• This food slowly sinks to the bottom; Usually pollutes water much less; Come in different sizes and are designed for fish of different sizes; Feed granule structure; Must be soaked in water before use; Contraindications; Developed specifically for bottom-dwelling fish; Storage of dry compound feeds; Do not store food in high humidity.
• Compound, homemade foods; Meat-vegetable-vitamin seafood assortment; The use of the assortment should alternate during the day with easily digestible foods.
• Plant-based foods; Spirulina; An excellent addition to the diet of all fish species; Plant-based food can include…; Additional, compound, homemade foods; Gelatin-based compound feeds can be used as substitutes for live food.
• Artisanal dried foods; It is not recommended to use these artisanal foods; Feeder fish; Frozen seafood and marine fish; Housefly (Drosophila); Crickets.
• Foods for treating sick fish; When preparing medication for treatment; Gelatin solution can be used; The main benefit of administering medication internally.
• Astaxanthin; Astaxanthin in animal life; Sources of astaxanthin; Carophyll Pink.
• Feed additives for color enhancement; Natural foods; Synthesis of carotenoids; Optimal ways to improve coloration.
• These are vital substances of organic origin; Must be included in the feed composition; Water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins are distinguished; Vitamin supplements should be combined with preparations.
• Minerals and microelements needed by fish; They are required in very small quantities; Microelements play various roles in the body; Water change is a way to add microelements; Microelements in the substrate; Microelements must be dissolved in water; Availability of iron [Fe] and other macro- and microelements.
Vitamins and microelements in feeds.
• When buying food, pay attention to…; Proper storage of dry food; Deficiency of nutrients supplied with food; Ready-made frozen foods.
Preparations with vitamins and microelements.
• Preparations for enriching water with vitamins and microelements; Aqua Medic; Dennerle; JBL; Sera; Tetra; Tropical.
• How and what to feed fish during vacation? In case of prolonged absence; Automatic feeders and timers for lighting and aeration will save you; Specialized slow-dissolving foods; Weekend foods; JBL; Sera; Tetra; Wardley.
Diseases from improper feeding.
• These diseases are usually caused by…; Food poisoning; Inadequate nutrition can lead to…; Obesity of internal organs; Avitaminosis and hypervitaminosis; Curved skeleton.
• What to do if a fish is bloated? What to do if a fish is too thin? What to do if a fish is not eating? What to do if a fish has abnormal feces? What to do if there are bubbles on the fish or its feces?
• JBL fish foods (Germany).
• Sera fish foods (Germany); Dennerle fish foods (Germany).
Tetra, Nutrafin Max, Vitawater fish foods.
• Tetra fish foods (Germany); Nutrafin Max fish foods (Hagen, Canada); Vitawater fish foods.
• Tropical fish foods (Poland).
Wardley, Zoomir, Aquarius fish foods.
• Wardley fish foods (USA); Zoomir fish foods (Russia); Aquarius fish foods (Ukraine).
