Marine Foods

There are many different types of marine fish food available in markets, ranging from Live, frozen, home made recipes, flake, pellet, etc. Each type of foods has its positive attributes in term of nutrition.



Home made recipes
Everyone have its own home made recipes when it comes to feeding their fishes.  One of the most famous home made recipes that are selling in Singapore is the Henry food from Marine Life.



Live foods
I do not in flavour of live foods, this is because live food runs the risk of bringing disease into the marine system. There is always some chances, but I will not take the chance unless I have no other choice.


For me, unless the newly introduced fish is not eating for a few days, then I will try live foods to get the fish eating. Slowly feed it with more and more pellets. Overall, it will be more easy to get the fish to eat  with live foods as it recognises the foods as it is natural especially live mysis shrimps, however live mysis shrimps are difficult to find in Singapore.




Frozen Foods
Frozen foods I used are normally from the brand Hikari mysis shrimp and Brine shrimp. One advantage is it is a natural food that is frozen, so it has almost the same nutrition as the live foods. Therefore, it is the best food to use to feed the newly introduced fish. It is relatively easy to get the new fish to eat using frozen foods. Mandrain fish normally only feeds on frozen foods. Lastly, it is easy to find and buy. 


Although freezing a sea food will kill most larger parasites, flukes, worms, etc. (but not all pathogenic bacteria). So it is important to buy a brand product. Some of the home made recipes may not be purely sterilised as the ingredients are from the seafood market, such as pawn, etc..




Flake and Pellets
This is a processed food that vitamins, wheat, etc are added to make a balance diet and enhance the health of the fish.  The only disadvantage is that it will take some time before the fish start to eat them. But before the fish starts to eat the pellets, the fish dies due to poor health.


Each types of foods has pros and cons, it is advised to feed your fishes will all the different type of foods at different percentage, maybe live foods 5%, seaweed 10%, home recipes15%, frozen foods 20%, pellets/flake 50%. There is no right or wrong percentage, it depends on yourself, as long as the fishes are healthy and thriving (no loss of color), you are on the right path.


Next posting  I will discuss the pellets foods that I feed my fishes.