What food do guppies eat? A detailed introduction to common types of fish food

The guppy, also known as the million fish, rainbow fish, and cuby fish, is an omnivorous small fish species. Adult fish measure 3-5 cm in length. Because guppies have a very strong ability to adapt to the environment, they can now be found almost everywhere in the world, and artificial feed is often chosen in breeding as well. Let's take a look together below!

Artificial feed

There are already quite a lot of types of artificial feed sold on the market today, roughly divided into three kinds: flake feed, pellet feed, and frozen feed. These feeds are the easiest to obtain and the easiest to feed. In addition, there is also feed specially developed for guppies, which should also be the choice of most guppy owners as a staple food, and its nutritional composition is also quite complete.

Live bait

The use of live bait has always received mixed reviews, because the nutritional value of live bait is of course far superior to artificially processed feed, but what comes along with it is the issue of safety. As owners, we must be cautious, otherwise the aftereffects it brings will make you feel it would have been better to just feed feed.

Brine shrimp

At present, the safest live bait should probably be brine shrimp (nauplii). The preparation time is not too long, and not too many procedures are needed. However, after hatching, they should be fed as soon as possible, because the most nutritious stage of nauplii is when they have just hatched and still carry the yolk sac. If too much time is dragged out, the yolk will have been completely absorbed by the nauplii, so the nutritional value will be slightly reduced. If netizens have the habit of hatching brine shrimp to feed guppies, and if there are extra hatched brine shrimp, they can be frozen. The next time you want to feed them, you only need to thaw them and they can be used.

Daphnia

Daphnia is also one of the common feeds for guppies. Daphnia can be bred with green water. One thing to note is that daphnia freshly collected from the wild are best not fed directly to fish, because daphnia are the intermediate host of Camallanus nematodes. Once parasitized by Camallanus nematodes, it is not something that can be solved in just a few words!

Tubifex worms

Tubifex worms have very high nutritional value. Putting some in the fish tank allows them to survive for a long time, letting your guppies keep eating continuously, so the guppies will grow quite quickly. They can also be used as medicated bait: first feed the medicine to the tubifex worms to make them a medicinal carrier, and then give them to the guppies to eat, and the effect is quite good. Judging from this, tubifex worms should be the most perfect feed. However, because tubifex worms are all collected from the wild, although some aquarium shops will first sterilize them, no one can guarantee that the bodies of tubifex worms will not carry parasitic eggs, so users have to pay attention.