Re: fat fish in aquaria
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:00 pm
Good point about the food aging, and the vitamins and oils decaying.
I buy top quality food (no fish meal or grains, human quality whole fish and shellfish, spirulina and other algae, other things depending on the food: Earthworms, vegetables and a lot more.).
It is vacuum packed when I buy it.
I keep it in the freezer until I am ready to open it.
I keep it in a cupboard away from heat (stove or fridge) and use it up as fast as I can.
When I open it it smells like something I would want to eat: fresh caught fish (not much of an odor at all) and some vegetable sort of odor. Not rancid oils or past-dated fish.
I also feed a lot of fresh or lightly cooked vegies. Just fed them Butternut Squash this morning.
I also cringe when I see people boasting about feeding fancy colored flakes to their fish, without reading what is in there (fish meal, grains and food coloring!)
I buy top quality food (no fish meal or grains, human quality whole fish and shellfish, spirulina and other algae, other things depending on the food: Earthworms, vegetables and a lot more.).
It is vacuum packed when I buy it.
I keep it in the freezer until I am ready to open it.
I keep it in a cupboard away from heat (stove or fridge) and use it up as fast as I can.
When I open it it smells like something I would want to eat: fresh caught fish (not much of an odor at all) and some vegetable sort of odor. Not rancid oils or past-dated fish.
I also feed a lot of fresh or lightly cooked vegies. Just fed them Butternut Squash this morning.
I also cringe when I see people boasting about feeding fancy colored flakes to their fish, without reading what is in there (fish meal, grains and food coloring!)