What feed is best for flowerhorn fish? A detailed guide to feed selection key points
Flowerhorn fish are omnivorous fish, and of course also carnivorous animals. They are not picky about food. Live bait such as red earthworms, small fish, etc., frozen bait such as frozen shrimp, frozen worms, etc., and feed such as strips, pellets, etc., are all quite good. For general home keeping, it is recommended to feed mainly frozen bloodworms, supplemented by frozen shrimp and color-enhancing bait.
Types of bait for flowerhorn fish:
1. Synthetic feed
There are many types of artificial synthetic feed for flowerhorn fish. Some are produced by manufacturers, and some are made by flowerhorn fish keepers themselves. Either way, they are all aimed at what flowerhorn fish should eat for head growth, so as to be balanced or rich in nutrients. Artificial synthetic feed is divided into low-temperature feed and high-temperature feed, with the temperature boundary being 60 degrees. Low-temperature feed takes longer to make, and its nutrition is also relatively higher, so the price is naturally on the higher side as well! Now fish food nutritional value is getting higher and higher, and it has also developed to a very important position as a decisive factor in flowerhorn head growth.
2. Natural bait
Natural bait for flowerhorn fish is divided into live food and dead food.
① Live bait: Flowerhorn fish have a very strong territorial nature, so live bait is very attractive to flowerhorn fish, and it can also increase the flowerhorn fish's hunting nature and activity. This can also serve as a method of using a sandbag to stimulate flowerhorn head growth, but live bait contains many unknown bacteria and parasites. As a hybrid fish, the flowerhorn fish has a very weak intestinal digestive ability. Feeding live food is very likely to infect the flowerhorn fish, and it may also cause injury when chasing live bait. Therefore, live food generally has more disadvantages than advantages.
② Dead bait: To reduce the harm to flowerhorn fish caused by bacteria carried by live bait, the live bait can usually be frozen directly first and then fed to the flowerhorn, using low-temperature freezing to kill parasites and bacteria on the live bait. Feeding flowerhorn fish this way is relatively safer.