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| I want a very diverse diet for my fish. Currently I feed them frozen blood worms (thawed 1st and only half a cube every few days), freeze dried tubifex worms, flake food, and very once in a great while baby live brine shrimp. I saw a brand for "color enhancing" and it said the following: "It's high in carotenoids, this diet is designed to promote development of natural colors in tropical fish." I was just wondering aren't carotenoids same as carotene? I've told you before I'm not very good at chemistry so I hope I don't sound dense asking  Also I heard that too much carotene isn't good for fish, or people for that matter, so do all color enhancing products have this in it? I'm almost out of tubifex worms, and the flake food isn't that great of quality I like the tetramin brand I was using. My friend gave me the flakes for free when I adopted my goldfish. Anyway what 2 products do you think I should replace these with?
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If I remember right, and I may be wrong, carotene is a carotenoid, but there are other substances that are carotenoids too. Which means, there may or may not be carotene in the food, and that's probably what it is, but it could be something else the pretty much does the same thing.
And yeah, most color-enhancing foods will have that in it. None of them should have it in high enough quantities to cause any trouble, and if you're already rotating foods for variety, it's unlikely anything will go wrong because of it.
As far as a replacement brand for the flake food, is this for the goldfish or the tropicals? For the goldfish, I very highly recommend Hikari Lionhead or Oranda pellets. They're both the same and very good food. Slightly more expensive for the amount of food you get, but worth it, I think. I've also heard good things about Omega-1, for both goldies and tropicals.
personally, I wouldn't bother replacing the tubifex worms, but I'm completely biased against them, even in the freeze-dried stage. 
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Black Moor - Damian
Calico Ryukin - Serafina
midget lionhead - Kiko
Lionhead - Little Bean
Serafina and Bean's babies:
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Westie
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2 german rams m/f
5 cardinal tetras
4 albino cories
9 baby guppies
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I recently found blood worms are not a full diet.  I am also lost on what to feed. Can someone help me aswell?
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Nothing give a "FULL" diet. Variety is your best bet to make sure your fish get all the nutrients they need.
I tend to stay away from color enhancing food. I just dont trust them
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Well, here's my take on food. When we sit to the table we don't eat the same thing every time, we switch things up and just about every meal. In the wild, so do fish. So, in our tanks why not vary the diet as well. It makes for much healthier fish. Just to give you and idea of the diversity of foods my fish get here's what my tanks get.
Saltwater
Mixture and sometimes separated out as follows:
Daphnia
Brine Shrimp
Mysis Shrimp
Reef Plankton
SF Bay Emerald Entree
New Life Spectrum growth formula pellets
New Life Spectrum Marine Fish formula
Dried Seaweed (aka Nori)
all "live" foods are frozen, not freeze dried or live.
Discus Community and 10gal Community
New Life Spectrum small fish formula (for the tetras)
New Life Spectrum community fish forumla
Beefheart
Daphnia
Bloodworms
Brine Shrimp
37gal South American Species + temp home to Pleco
Sera Vipagran
Discus color pellets (I know, the question that will be asked so keep reading.  )
Brine Shrimp
Zuchinni
Algae Wafers
Ok, so you ask, why do I feed the Discus food to the 37gal and not to the Discus and why don't I feed the NLS(New Life Spectrum) to the 37? Simple, the Discus color enhancing food is left over from when I had all my Discus, and it is meant to be an enhancer for Red colored discus, neither of my Discus have red in them. And the 37gal tank is stocked with 2 Golden Angels and a small species of Silver Dollar, nothing very colorful there so I don't use the New Life Spectrum because it is extremely good for color (other things as well but a lot for color). Besides, it is a rather expensive food.
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| Wow, GoldBarb -- that is the best feeding regimen for fish that I have ever seen. No wonder your fish look so terrific. My fish also get a varied diet, and it also depends on the fish. In addition to the many different foods that I am sent to review for FAMA, I feed all of my show tanks two or three dry foods, shrimp pellets, a krill pellet that I am testing, and all of my tanks get spirulina algae wafers every day. I feed frozen bloodworms and frozen mysis shrimp probably four or five times a week -- I confess that I just swish the chunks of frozen food around in the tank, trying to avoid having my fingers bitten by my large wild Uarus and the jurupari. At least one day a week I do not feed anybody anything. What do other of you feed your fish? Please share with us.
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My goldfish get a base commercial food of either Mazuri gel food or Hikari Oranda/Lionhead pellets. Frozen bloodworms 2-3 times a week. fresh cocktail shrimp or imitation crab meat (which is just fish) once a week or so, depending on the dining hall. Usually they get fresh spinach, lettuce, or cucumber 1-2 times a week. An orange slice once every 2-3 weeks. Right now they are eating the rest of my leftover spinach/pea homemade gel food instead of the fresh veggies. I try to make sure they get fresh peas every 2 weeks or so, but as I get them from the dining hall, it's a wierd schedule.
55 gallon
Black Moor - Damian
Calico Ryukin - Serafina
midget lionhead - Kiko
Lionhead - Little Bean
Serafina and Bean's babies:
Baby
Westie
planted 29 gallon
2 german rams m/f
5 cardinal tetras
4 albino cories
9 baby guppies
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goldbarb has a very large regiment i like to see that. I am sure that as you have read before i make my own food its cheap and very healthy because i know everything that is in it.
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Thanks for reminding me, princess. The 120 with the jurupari and royal farlowellas get potato and/or zuchinni a couple times a week, and when we have melons I just leave a fair amount on the rind and put the rind in -- they will clean it down to a very thin skin in a day or so. All of the sucker cats that need it -- plecos, ancistrus, otocinaclus etc. -- in my wholesale fish room get potato in their tanks all the time. Veggies are great for most fish -- I just nuke them in the microwave for a minute or so before feeding them.
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Wow!!! Thanks everybody this is really great information there are so many choices out there!
Everything Freshwater Aquaria Blog 1.5 gal: CT Betta Schuyler 1.5 gal:Betta Gideon 2.5 gal: Betta Blueberry 10 gal: Platies (wag tail,sunburst,marigold) 20 gal: Dwarf gourami, Black Moor, Red Cap Oranda 10 gal: Corydoras, Guppies and 2 African dwarf frogs pix of my very 1st tank----->Original10 gal:
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