Feeding Goldfish

Feeding Goldfish

Feeding (fancy) goldfish seems simple: you buy some fish flakes and you’re all set, right? As with many things in the aquarium world, it’s unfortunately a little more complicated. Traditional fish flakes, while marketed as such, are almost never suitable goldfish food. They usually contain fillers that barely have nutritional value and can actually be bad … Read more

Common Fish Feeding Mistakes

8 Fish Feeding Mistakes Everyone Makes (And How To Avoid Them)

Regardless of the species, providing your fish with a balanced diet is essential for keeping your pets healthy and thriving. But fish feeding has many potential pitfalls that you must avoid, as getting it wrong often leads to health problems for your fish and even fatalities in extreme cases. I have over 40 years of … Read more

Best Tropical Fish Food

The 7 Best Tropical Fish Food Options

As well as providing them with the correct environment, a high-quality, balanced diet is absolutely crucial for your fish’s health. But with such a mind-boggling range of tropical fish foods out there, how do you know what to choose? In this guide, you can learn what to look for in the best tropical fish foods … Read more

Impact of Overfeeding

What Every Fish Keeper Needs to Know About the Impact of Overfeeding

As with any pet, providing your fish with a correct diet in the right amounts is essential for their health and longevity. That sounds pretty straightforward, but it’s something that beginners to the hobby often get wrong, sometimes with drastic results. One of the most important aspects of tropical and cold water fishkeeping is understanding … Read more

yoyo loach eat snails

Do Yoyo Loach Eat Snails – Let’s Explore This In-Depth!

Does your snail population have you up at night in worry? Do you constantly dread waking up to find a snail feast on your water plants or even worse, your prized fish tank? Fear not, because there is a simple solution: Yoyo loaches! Yoyo loaches are small, bottom-dwelling fish that are native to Eastern Asia. … Read more

Do Plecos Eat Snails

Do Plecos Eat Snails? Everything You Need To Know!

Do you want to add some snails to your aquarium, but are worried about whether your pleco fish will eat them? In short, they will! Although snails are not a typical part of a pleco’s diet, they become desperate for food and will eat them if they have to. However, you can take steps to … Read more

Can Goldfish Eat Bloodworms

Can Goldfish Eat Bloodworms? Read Our Article To Find Out!

Goldfish will thrive and grow well if they are fed a nutritious, high-quality, balanced diet. So, what do goldfish like to eat? Are goldfish carnivores? And can goldfish eat bloodworms? Well, goldfish are omnivores that enjoy a varied diet that can include bloodworms and other similar foods. Read this guide to learn everything you need … Read more

betta food and feeding

Betta Food and Feeding: What Every Owner Needs to Know

Figuring out the best diet for your betta fish can be quite a challenge. There are many different brands and varieties of betta fish food available in pet/aquarium stores and online, but unfortunately, not all of them are high-quality or even good enough to keep your betta healthy! If you’re struggling with what, when, or … Read more

Do Kuhli Loaches Eat Shrimp

Do Kuhli Loaches Eat Shrimp? Let’s Examine the Facts..

Kuhli loaches are one of my favorite fish. Mysterious, nocturnal, and eel-like, these beautiful creatures make a fascinating addition to most community tank setups. Some fishkeepers, however, are concerned about keeping kuhli loaches with shrimp. After all, other loach species are notorious for eating invertebrates, and there have been rumors on the internet about kuhlis … Read more

Stinging Nettles for Fish Food and Medicine

Stinging Nettles for Fish Food and Medicine: All the Facts!

Sometimes, important scientific discoveries remain hidden away in obscure journals for years before the findings receive wider recognition and application. This year (in February 2023) a scientific paper reviewing the stinging nettle’s potential as a food in aquaculture revealed that the ‘backyard weed’ can boost growth rate, reproduction rate, and immunity levels, as well as … Read more

Can Goldfish Eat Tropical Fish Food

Can Goldfish Eat Tropical Fish Food? – Our Handy Guide

If you’re keeping both goldfish and tropical fish, you might be wondering – can I skip buying two kinds of food for my fish, and just feed my goldfish the tropical fish food? The answer is that tropical fish food is often not so different from goldfish food and can occasionally be used as a … Read more

Do Algae Eaters Eat Fish

Do Algae Eaters Eat Fish? Read Our Article To Find Out!

If you’re reading this, you may have noticed a few of your fish disappearing in the night, and your algae eater looking particularly satisfied in the morning. Or perhaps you’ve heard gruesome stories of algae eaters going on a killing spree in a community tank? Though such horror stories do exist, the good news is … Read more

Culturing Daphnia

Culturing Daphnia: The Science, Facts, Tips, and Techniques

Daphnia, or water fleas, are tiny plankton-like freshwater crustaceans that make an excellent food source for aquarium fish, fish fry, amphibians, and some invertebrates. You can keep large groups of these creatures in a small tank and harvest them whenever you want to feed your fish a nutritious treat. If you fancy raising daphnia as … Read more

do tetras eat shrimp

Do Tetras Eat Shrimp? Tank Mates or Tasty Treats?

Now there have been some reports online of tetras eating dwarf shrimp species, especially cherry shrimp. Are these stories true, and how can we protect our precious shrimp from the ravages of our hungry tetras? The truth is that tetras can sometimes eat dwarf shrimp, but usually only when larger tetras are kept with the … Read more