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How to Choose Ornamental Fish Feed

If you want your fish to grow healthily and vigorously, good fish feed is indispensable. So, do you know what common ornamental fish feeds are? Animal feed, plant feed, artificial compound feed, etc. are common fish feeds. How do you choose ornamental fish feed? Good fish food is added with natural astaxanthin, without spraying oil, and has a strong smell of fish and shrimp.

 

What are the common ornamental fish feeds

 

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  1. Animal feed

 

Animal feed is mainly fresh feed and fish meal, dried fish and insects, meat meal, fish meat, egg yolks, nauplii shrimp, juvenile earthworms (nematodes), juvenile shrimp, rotifers, "tadpoles", yellow mealworm larvae, Silkworm pupae, blood worms, etc.

 

  1. Plant-based feed

Plant-based feeds include various algae, cereals, leguminous ground products or finished products. For example, chlorella, spirulina, and barberry are rich in protein, and also contain various vitamins and trace elements. They are auxiliary feeds for freshwater ornamental fish.

 

  1. Artificial feed

The artificial feed has the characteristics of convenient use, comprehensive nutrition, easy preservation, and feeding. This kind of feed has various types such as pellets and flakes, as well as special feeds specially designed for some specific ornamental fish tastes and nutritional ratios. Artificial feed not only contains a large amount of protein but also generally adds a variety of microbial live bacteria, providing a benign micro-ecological cycle, with good absorption and environmental protection effects.

 

The main animal raw materials of artificial compound feed are fish meal, blood meal, liver meal, dried noodles, dried wire earthworms, skim milk powder, yeast, etc., and plant-derived materials are wheat flour, cereal flour, spirulina, bean flour and so on.

 

  1. Self-made feed

In actual breeding, the feed can be self-matched, can be supplied for a long time, and can be used alone with fish and insects. The self-made feed can add vitamins or antibiotic drugs to prevent and cure diseases, which has many advantages. For example, the "bull heart burger" that colorful angelfish loves to eat can be self-made. The main ingredients are beef heart, shrimp, vegetables, multivitamins, etc., which are broken and mixed with a meat grinder, and cut into pieces when used. It can also be frozen for a short time. "Bull heart burger" type self-made feed has become the staple food of colorful angelfish.

 

How to choose an ornamental fish feed

 

  1. Color of fish food

In the process of making ornamental fish feed, some pigments will be added to meet the existing consumer habits, so that the appearance of the feed will look brighter and more attractive. In fact, the addition of these pigments has little to do with increasing the body's redness of the fish. These pigments only increase the ornamental of fish food. Of course, some fish also consider color as food. High-quality feed formula + astaxanthin + special process are the factors that have a bearing on the color of the fish. At present, there are two cases of pigments added to the commercially available ornamental fish feed.

 

  1. Fish coloring time

Many aquarists like fish foods that increase colorfast. It is wrong to think that the faster the color increase effect, the better or slower the better. It is wrong to add natural astaxanthin to good fish foods. Slow red is the best for 2-4 weeks. The most beneficial.

 

  1. The appearance of fish food

Many aquarists like oily-looking fish food, and feel that oily and bright fish have a special appetite for fish. It is true that many feeds have an oil spraying process in the production process. The purpose is to improve the brightness of the feed and improve Attractively, but it is also harmful to fish. The international export standard of fish food is strictly prohibited from spraying oil. Good fish food should also eat fish without spraying oil.

 

  1. The smell of fish food

Good fish food should have a strong smell of fish and shrimp. Poor fish food often has very little or no smell. Everyone should know that (some companies add antibiotic drugs (such as allicin) to their products, so the feed has drugs. (Smell.) In order to explain that their products have a large content of fishmeal, some fish flavors, such as fishy treasure and fish flavor, are added to make them fake. Such products generally have a strong fish aroma. For example, after soaking in water for a period of time, the fish and shrimp flavor disappears or fades.

 

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