Fish Food (Live & Commercial)

Hi guys,

I was asked by a friend to post the fish food and the routine I have when feeding my fish. It may not be well taken or perhaps others are doing the same. Its working for me so far. Well, before I begin, let me provide a bit of background of what I have.

These are the list of fauna that I have...
1) Harlequin Rasbora
2) Celestial Pearl Danio
3) Rummy Nose
4) Yamato Shrimps
5) Malayan Shrimps
6) Siamese Algae Eater (SAE)
7) Otocinclus (Oto)
8) Corydoras Sterbai
9) Corydoras Panda
10) Albino Red Guppies
11) Albino Red Metal Lace Guppies
12) Guppy Frys
13) Betta

Live Food
The following are live food that I am using or have used in the past.
1) Microworms (Own Culture)
2) Vinegar Eels (Own Culture)
3) Tubifex (Purchase from LFS) Wash & Wash & Wash before Feeding!!
4) Brine Shrimps - Adult (Purchase from LFS)
5) Baby Brine Shrimps (Self Hatch)

Microworms 

Vinegar Eels 

Credit to boyneburn (Rainbowfish.info)

Tubifex

Adult Brine Shrimps

(Credit to liveaquaria.com)

Baby Brine Shrimps (BBS)

Baby Brine Shrimps (BBS)

Bought from David 

Do contact me should you wish to purchase them.

I will patch you through to David, no additional cost;

I'm just promoting his product. SGD$15/100grams.

Baby Brine Shrimps (BBS)

Bought from LFS

 Commercial Food

1) Ocean Free Super Colour (Flakes)
2) Ocean Free Super Miniature (Micro Granules)
3) Sera Micron (Powder)
4) Sera Vipagran Baby
5) Tetra Guppy
6) Ocean Nutrition Atison's Betta Pro

Ocean Free Super Colour (Flakes)

Ocean Free Super Miniature (Micro Granules)

Sera Micron (Powder)

Sera Vipagran Baby

Guppy Tetra 

Ocean Nutrition Atison's Betta Pro

Routine Feeding
We all know how attached we can be to our fishes. Everytime, we see them, they seem to move when we do and we start feeding them. This is wrong. A friend I know feed his fish once a week. It may seems horrible but n a way its better this way. Though I don't agree with feeding fish once a week especially if its a bare tank, feeding them less has its advantages.

When you overfeed, it will lead to two things, it will pollute your water when the food are uneaten and might result in diseases if not taken care of and two overfeeding fish might lead to swimbladder problems. Never overfeed.

Bettas
I feed two of my gorgeous Bettas ONCE a day. Small quantity of Ocean Nutrition Atison's Betta Pro. I don't count the pellets I give them but I'm estimating about 10. This is their staple food. I do make a point to feed them tubifex once a week.

Bettas seems to have individual characteristic. No two bettas are the same. When I first got them, one of the bettas refuse to eat the food I gave. I stopped feeding him for two days. The day I feed him again, he was moving left and right in front of the tank. When I fed, he ate them all! Thanks to Uncle Ron for this tip.

Guppies (All Strains)
Again, like the bettas, I give them small quantities only. For their staple diet, I feed Tetra Guppy. This was a trial and error actually. I tried a couple of brands before and this brand was the one I find to be best food to feed mine. They love it!

I feed my guppies ONCE a day. Every two days, I do feed them BBS as well. They love these the most. I try to rotate between the BBS and the Tetra Guppy when I can.

Guppy Frys
As a small time breeder, I do have frys. I have tried Vinegar Eels and Microworms to feed them. They love them. But the problem I have with Microworms is that it stinks. I eat bread and I think of Microworms. My last culture crashed last week and my girlfriend was happy as the small cupboard where I store them no longer stink. Microworms are ideal for frys but they tend to drop to the bottom unlike Vinegar Eels.

Vinegar Eels are damn small. Culturing them is easy as well. But I am lazy. I use Apple Vinegar from Heinz and lazy to go to the groceries to get them. I do have two cultures going right now. Just added another slice of apple for them.

So that left me with this routine.

In the morning, I feed my frys Sera Micron. These are absolutely fabulous commercial food! It's green and in powder form. Easy for frys to consume. And the best thing is you can see the frys belly filled with them! Sera Micron is fed to frys that are just born. Within two months, I stopped feeding frys Micron and switch to Sera Vipagran. They love them as well! Frys at the bottom will all swim near to surface to feast.

In the evening, I harvest the BBS. I feed the BBS to my frys and the adults guppies as well. They absolutely love them.

The different here is I feed frys twice a day. Again in small quantity. Frys should be fed more often than the adults but again lessen the quantity.

The Rest of My Fauna
For the rest of my fauna, I feed them Ocean Free Super Colour (Flakes), Ocean Free Super Miniature (Micro Granules) or BBS. When I do visit any LFS, I try to get Brine Shrimps (Adult) or Tubifex to feed them.

Again, I feed them ONCE a day. Staple food is Ocean Free Super Colour (Flakes). I've stopped using the
Ocean Free Super Miniature (Micro Granules).

So there you go. Feed only once. Small quantity or rather just enough. Overfeeding is not a good idea. So keep it simple. Refrain from feeding everytime you see them. Its tempting but don't.

So I hope, this will somehow help or compare notes with other hobbyist on what they feed their faunas. I have friends who feed vegetables as well. Whatever works for you. I've been trying different food myself and  finally come to a point where I use only certain brand.

Good luck!

RREA Full Red Guppy

I got interested in these babies some time ago. Y618 is one of the lfs I frequent to get my equipments, food, fauna etc. One day, a friend suggested that I take a look at the guppy, Albino Full Red. At first I wasn't so sure that I want to go down the line of keeping guppies as my main focus or goal was more into aquascapping and planted tank.

One close look, I fell in love. Full red body and the red eyes. How can one not be fascinated by these lovelies. I went to research online to get more information but there wasn't much. It was pretty general. Anyway, it wasn't like I've never kept guppies in my life before but this are pure strains. Gulp. I have a spare tank with some platys so I was more or less set.

One day, a friend notified me of Aquastar having new arrivals of Albinos. I went down and bought a few pairs. 6 total. 3 males and 3 females. I know the ratio is off but buying a pair cost me $6. I am not certain of grade though. To me grade is based on the eye of the beholder.


After getting them, I made a mistake and lost a few of them. They jump. =( Sadly, my project came to a halt. I visited Y618 and saw Albinos in their individual bags. Kinda sad but that was how they wereplaced. There were some Albinos in tanks and when you compare them, the ones in the individual bags were more beautiful. They came in A or AA grade. A being $5 each and AA $15. It was hard to tell the difference. Hence, I settled with 3 males and 3 females. All being A grade. The ratio now will be 4 males and 6 females.

I placed them in my platy tank which was pretty small. 40cm tank. Roughly about 30L. So I sat down and thought it over. I was not going to be a crazy breeder. Just a casual one. Keeping the best and the excess to give away/sell to friends and fellow hobbyist.

So what I did? I bought two 45cm tanks which is 40L or 10 gallon tank. One was going to be a low tech planted with simple plants like hairgrass and moss while the other sand based.

One for the males and the other females. I bought a couple smaller tanks to house juvi temporary. Bought a few breeder tank as well.

Right now, it's cycling. Strange how both tank ammonia level are the same. Both at 2.0 Eventhough, the low tech planted tank is the one with the ADA aquasoil. Anyway, I'm thinking of putting a few corydoras in the female tank. For the male, I have yet to decide but a few Otos, maybe yamatos, malayans and perhaps cherry shrimps? LOL Will see.

Well, while waiting, I've seperated the females into breeder tanks which are big enough. Hopefully, not stressful to them. I got frys by the way! About 20plus of them. Currently, on microworm, boiled egg yolk and powdered commercial fish food diet.

Crossing my fingers. Anyway, below are some pictures, enjoy.

When I first got interested in this Albino Full Red, I already have a tank cycled and ready.

Set Up

Tank: 40cm Glass Tank

Filtration: Gex HOF

Lights: Gex (No idea of Model)

Substrate: Quartz

Material: A rock from my iwagumi collection

Some fake plants (From Seaview)

Fauna: Albino Full Red (Male & Female) & 2 Golden Guppy (Male)

Left Picture: Taken with pink light I have in storeroom

Right Picture: Due to some chemicals that the fake plants were discharging (killing some fauna along the way), I changed it to a simple setup. This is how it looks like. I like to call it a containment tank while the 2 tanks for them are being cycled.

Set Up

Tank: 40cm Glass Tank

Filtration: Cheap internal filter (using air pump) with Eheim Substrat Pro and Biohome

Lights: Gex (No idea of Model)

Substrate: Pebbles with some rocks and pleco home

Material: NA

Fauna: Same less Golden Guppy - Add juvi platys

My Albino Full Red Guppy from Y618 & Aquastar

Background are the frys in its breeder box.

  This is the male tank that I am setting up. It's going to be low tech planted.

As I'm using ADA Amazonia New which brings PH down to roughly around 5.5, I had to place corals in the substrate.

Bogwood, ADA Amazonia, Gex White Sand and rocks on the other bank.

Flooding, I hate this. There's always this cloud of dust from the soil.

Added plants.

Rocks placed on bogwood as its not waterlogged.

Bridge added. (Lovebridge says my better half)

And yes, that is a house. Haha

The picture on the left is where the females will be. Breeding will be in this tank.

I have this two tanks plus two smaller tanks to house the frys when they are bigger so I can do selection. All except the male tank, I'm having PH of 7.6 or higher. Gah! I need to find a common PH for all. I'm hoping to get all at 6.8 Will see how that goes later on.

3-4 more weeks to go!!!


Frys!! Haha!! Happy Like Crazy! Just in time when they grow, my 4 tanks will be ready to accept them. Feeding on microworms, powdered flakes and once a week dose of boiled egg yolks.