What Can i Feed my Loaches

zachdees · Post by **zachdees** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:43 pm

What Can i feed them

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:24 pm

Read here:

http://www.loaches.com/care/the-loach-almanac

and here:

http://www.loaches.com/articles/home-co ... n-fishfood

Martin.

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:25 pm

Hi Zachdees,
Welcome to the forum.

I have five Botia kubotai, and I feed mine these things:

bottom feeder pellets
algae pellets
chopped cooked shrimp
thawed frozen blood worms
Hikari micro pellets
Tetra crisps and several other kinds of flake
freeze-dried tubifex worms
blanched peeled peas
apple
cucumber
zucchini

They like a varied diet, and this is just a small list of the things they can eat.

zachdees · Post by **zachdees** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:41 pm

Thx And that Was very interesting

Gary Stanton · Post by **Gary Stanton** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:58 pm

Romaine lettuce leaf.

Diana · Post by **Diana** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:24 am

Read the label on prepared foods. Avoid grains and fish meal sorts of foods. Look for whole fish and shell fish, Spirulina algae and similar items.
Have a look at Omega One, and Spectrum and compare these to cheap brands.

My fish get a rotation from a list as long as your arm, but inclusdes:
Flake (Omega One)
Pellet (Omega One, Sprectrum)
Wafer (High quality sinking carnivore and algae wafers)
Frozen
Freeze Dried
Home made (similar to the recipe posted above)
Fresh (vegies, occasional fruit)
Live (worms, aphids, fruit flies)

And about 1 day a week, no food. Encourages them to clean the tank of algae, and whatever else they can find.

Doc · Post by **Doc** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:35 am

My Loaches get..

Cucumber
Chopped mussels
Chopped prawn
Spinach
Catfish pellets
Various flake food brands (mixed)
Granule style foods
Home made frozen Loach food (similar to the recipe on here with a few variations)
Frozen and live bloodworm
Frozen, dried and live Daphnia
Dried River Shrimp

And the occasional netful of Duckweed which they will munch on.

Beanz1927 · Post by **Beanz1927** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:52 pm

Snails

helen nightingale · Post by **helen nightingale** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:32 pm

snails, yes, but not just snails!

mine get:

defrosted frozen foods, all sorts
sinking carnivore pellets
various sinking granules
sinking wafers
sinking tablet foods
algae wafers
prawns

they will also nosh on snails and any little micro creatures living in the moss in the tank

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