Create A Tropical Fish Aquarium With Katy's Tropical Fish - A Complete Guide

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DIET IN MARINE FISH

Fish, just like humans, need to be on a proper diet to ensure overall good health and happiness. With marine fish, one of the most common problems leading to illness, weight loss, poor color, fin erosion, lateral line erosion, lethargy, and outbreak of disease has to do directly with poor diet. For starters, marine fish need carbohydrates, protein, lipids, vitamins, and minerals but the problem is that few foods contain adequate levels of these essential nutrients.

For this reason, you need to provide your marine fish with a variety of foods to include frozen, flake, and fresh. An excellent staple food would be frozen seafood, which would be foods such as squid, clams, shrimp, and even marine fish flesh that has been cleaned and finely chopped. When buying frozen food, you can use a regular kitchen grater to grate off small pieces of food.

Now, for marine fish, you want to avoid feeding them oily foods such as herring and tuna. The problem is that oily foods will cause a film in the water’s surface, thus compromising the water’s integrity. In addition, avoid any type of food that could become stale or rancid quickly, thus causing pollution in the water. Just as you do with all fish, only feed marine fish enough food that can be eaten within 10 minutes. Then, any uneaten food on the bottom on the fish aquarium should be removed.

Marine fish love frozen mysid shrimp, which are nutritious and a high source of fat and protein. Unfortunately, you need to choose quality mysid shrimp since some brands are more fragments than whole shrimp. The only negative aspect of mysid shrimp is that they are high in carotenoids. This means feeding marine fish a diet of only mysid shrimp could result in color loss. Therefore, we recommend you choose mysid shrimp coupled with other appropriate foods.

Although you will provide flakes to your marine fish along with other foods, you want to avoid flakes as a staple. Just as with the mysid shrimp, choose quality flakes to enhance the color of the fish. Obviously, frozen brine shrimp and krill are great treats but these too should not be fed to marine fish as a staple food. Again, these crustaceans are high in carotenoids, meaning the fish will lose color.

To ensure your marine fish get the best diet possible, try soaking fish food in an additive such as Selcon or something similar. This additive contains omega-three fatty acids, as well as a form of vitamin C and other vital nutrients. If you keep herbivores and omnivores together in your fish aquarium, we recommend you supplement their diet with fresh vegetables. For this, you could add dried macroalgae or seaweed flakes.

Now, if you have finicky eaters in your fish aquarium, you have a number of options. First, use some live foods such as ghost shrimp and brine shrimp, which are favorites of marine fish. Sometimes, live black worms will also entice a fussy eater, as will marine mussels. For this, all you need to do is break open the shell, tossing the entire clam into the fish tank. Then, stand back and watch the feeding frenzy.

Remember, when it comes to marine fish, the right diet is just as important as water quality and temperature. If your fish are being fed a diet that is low in nutrients, they will have a weakened immune system. However, when marine fish are given the proper diet, they are active, healthy, and colorful.

I hope you enjoyed this article and look forward to the next article which looks at venomous species.

Until next time...

Katy
www.kingdomofpets.com/tropicalfish

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