What kind of food do ornamental fish eat?

Although there are many kinds of ornamental fish with different habits, their eating habits can be roughly divided into three categories: carnivorous fish, omnivorous fish and vegetarian fish. let's take a look at what ornamental fish eat.

Animal bait

Animal bait is mainly fresh bait and fish meal, dried fish worm, meat meal, fish, egg yolk, nauplius of harvest shrimp, silk earthworm (nematode), harvest shrimp, rotifer, "migratory water", yellow powder worm larva, silkworm pupa, blood worm and so on.

Plant bait

Plant-based bait has a variety of algae, cereals, pulverized beans or finished products, such as Chlorella, spirulina, Wuping is rich in protein, but also contains a variety of vitamins and trace elements, is an auxiliary diet for freshwater ornamental fish.

Artificial bait

Artificial bait has the characteristics of easy to use, comprehensive nutrition, easy preservation and feeding. This kind of bait can be divided into granular type, flake type and so on, as well as special baits specially designed for the taste and nutritional ratio of some specific ornamental fish. Artificial diet not only contains a large amount of protein, but also generally adds a variety of living microorganisms to provide a benign microecological cycle, has a good absorption and environmental protection effect.

The main animal raw materials of artificial compound diet are fish meal, blood meal, liver meal, dried wiggler, dried earthworm, skim milk powder, yeast and so on, while plant raw materials are wheat flour, cereal powder, spirulina, legume powder and so on.

Iodine, seaweed, bran shrimp, harvest shrimp and some plankton are generally added to the cost of artificial bait for marine ornamental fish. Floating bait is suitable for feeding surface foraging fish. Paste bait and ingot bait are suitable for feeding benthic ornamental fish such as Siluridae and rodent.

Self-prepared bait

In actual breeding, it can be self-made bait, can be supplied for a long time, and can be used alone with fish and insects. Self-made bait can add vitamins or antibiotics to prevent and cure diseases, which has many advantages. For example, the "beef heart hamburger" that colorful fairy fish like to eat can be made by yourself. the main ingredients are beef heart, shrimp, vegetables, multivitamins, etc., which are broken and mixed with a meat grinder, cut and fed when in use, and can be frozen for a short time. "beef heart hamburger" self-made bait has become the staple food of colorful fairy fish and so on.

Usually feed about 3% of the body weight of the fish every day. It can also be estimated that the daily feeding amount of an age ornamental fish is about equal to the size of its head. The daily feeding amount of two-year-old ornamental fish is about 1 / 2 of the size of its head. For ornamental fish over three years old, their whole-day food intake is about 1 of the size of their head.