smidey Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 TBH I don't know why people feed all sorts of "stuff" to their fish in the name of variety. A mix of quality foods will provide all the variety and nutrients they need, so unless you have an obligate piscavore that won't touch processed food I see no need for it. If you're doing it because its cheaper than buying quality pellet foods then thats a different story all together, but I don't believe for a second that there is any nutritional benefit to it. it may or may not be better than the bought foods, i doubt there is any easy way to tell if feeding a range of natural unprocessed foods is better or worse than processed foods. A variety of good food cannot be bad, the sushi wrap and shelled peas i used to feed were certainly a cheaper option to NLS but that wasn't the reason i fed the veges, just to see how it went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted October 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 I just figured much like humans, fresh natural produce is better then processed food for fish. not saying that prepackaged fish food is bad but surely adding extra nutrients wouldnt be a waste of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 i have always preferred to feed a staple diet of prepackaged food eg hikari sticks or the like, and then offered "treats" in between, of shrimp, meat, insects, feeder fish etc, depending on availability or how generous i am feeling. after all, prepackaged food is designed specifically for the fishies optimum health. i find that feeding them too many "treats" tends to make them go off the prepackaged foods. so in my opinion it's best to feed them around 75 - 80% quality prepackaged foods and the rest made up of "treats". if they start going off the prepackaged stuff, i'll stop with the treats until they start eating it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 I just figured much like humans, fresh natural produce is better then processed food for fish. not saying that prepackaged fish food is bad but surely adding extra nutrients wouldnt be a waste of time. I see where you're coming from but I doubt that feeding natural foods would add much of anything essential that isn't already found in a quality pellet/flake food like NLS. Quality processed fish food and processed human foods are two totally different things, the human stuff is usually designed for taste and price with little consideration given to nutrition, where as fish food is designed to be a nutritionally complete food. The thing with natural foods is that you really would need to feed a good variety of the right kinds of things to cover the different foods most fish would eat in the wild (and all the vitamins/minerals they would intake as such). I don't think there is anything wrong with feeding natural type foods, I still feed my plecs courgette and my eartheaters brineshrimp, and will almost certainly feed my aro prawn once it gets a bit bigger, but as much for stimulation as anything. Their staple diet will always remain quality processed foods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted October 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Quality processed fish food and processed human foods are two totally different things, the human stuff is usually designed for taste and price with little consideration given to nutrition, where as fish food is designed to be a nutritionally complete food. This is a very good point, I never realy thought much on the reason that human food is processed, I just worked that processed is generaly rubbish. i find that feeding them too many "treats" tends to make them go off the prepackaged foods I havent found this yet, but I only feed extra stuff once a week and suplement with NLS. However this thread was designed in mind to work out exactly what not should be feed to fish, in saying that this is very good discussion and very imformative Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted October 3, 2012 Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 However this thread was designed in mind to work out exactly what not should be feed to fish I'd stay away from spicy foods and alcoholic beverages. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted October 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 I'd stay away from spicy foods and alcoholic beverages. Including Asian and Irish fish? :gigl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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