Frozen foods are suitable for many species that are either carnivorous or omnivorous, including bloodworm, daphnia tubifex algae spinach etc.
These food pellets are specially formulated to meet the main nutrient requirements for tropical fish, making digestion easy while fortified with minerals and vitamins – an attractive food option among many aquarium keepers.
Contents
Ingredients
Tropical fish food in bulk provides your aquatic friends with all of the essential vitamins and minerals they require for good health. Your aquatic friends must eat regularly, but also receive an ingestion-only source of these vital elements if you want them to flourish properly.
This food for fish contains ingredients that are easy for their bodies to digest, helping your aquatic friends absorb essential nutrients. Made with whole fish meal (i.e. the actual flesh from a fish rather than just ground up waste product), as well as kelp, astaxanthin and garlic – your aquatic friends will thank you!
Guppies, tetras, danios and platies should all be fed this fish food without issue; Corydoras catfish, goldfish and discus can also benefit. Plecos or bottom-dwelling species require higher protein diets, so these frozen daphnia or brine shrimps should be purchased from pet stores in their fish section and then thawed before feeding to your tropical fish.
Preparation
Many hobbyists opt to make their own fish food to maintain both quality and costs. Doing this can be as straightforward as collecting fresh vegetables, water fleas (daphnia), or brine shrimp and mixing them into a gel formula that can be stored in the freezer until needed.
Homemade diets can be created using either a basic blender or one designed specifically for smoothies. All components should be thoroughly blended to ensure all components are evenly mixed; gelatin should first be dissolved in hot water prior to mixing into vegetable mix.
Supplementing these diets with other foods to create a well-rounded meal and promote optimal health is highly advised, such as chopped fish, boiled egg yolk, garlic cloves, pieces of fruit or vegetables for herbivorous species such as goldfish. Our library also features articles covering how to raise live foods such as Brine Shrimp, Daphnia Fruit Flies or Vinegar Eels that can easily be added into most tropical fish’s diet.
Storage
Be sure to store any fish food you purchase for your aquarium or pond properly – an airtight, sealed container away from heat and moisture will extend its shelf life and help extend its shelf life. This can also ensure optimal flakes performance for longer!
Typically, it is advised that fish food should not be used more than 90 days post-opening date, as fat-soluble vitamins and water-soluble nutrients tend to degrade over time; vitamin C in particular quickly disintegrates – this is why many manufacturers add stabilized forms of Vitamin C into the flakes to combat this degradation process.
At all times, keep frozen fish food handy as an emergency source of nutrition for your aquatic friends. Just as humans require a balanced diet for health reasons, fish require one as well. Many pet sitters specialize in fish care and will charge a reasonable fee to check and feed as necessary.
Nutrition
Supplying your tropical fish with an appropriate diet is critical to their wellbeing. A high-quality tropical fish food will satisfy their basic nutritional requirements, while providing balanced feeding regimens is particularly crucial when caring for brightly-colored species that may become stressed from subpar nutrition.
Hikari Tropical Fish Food provides a balanced mixture of ingredients designed to support and nutrify your aquatic friends’ growth, while meeting all their essential nutritional requirements. Their particular formulation was designed specifically for small tetras and other cichlids with its combination of vegetable proteins, marine proteins, spirulina, and krill as natural color enhancers.
These flakes are composed of white fish meal, which boasts higher protein and lower fat levels than most common forms of fish meal. Furthermore, this food also includes spirulina for raw protein intake as well as antioxidant benefits. Finally, each flake is coated in kelp fish oil which adds lecithin for enhanced nutritional benefits and an overall increase in nutrition value.
