Aquarium Care

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If you are planning to buy food for your fishes, you may have to study a little to find the right type for your pet fishes. There are several different types of fish food made in spectacular range and they can be categorized into three types namely dry, frozen, and freeze dried.

(A) Dry Foods
Dry food can be purchased in different mix and active ingredients and is available in numerous forms such as flake, pellets & sticks and wafers. Flake foods are manufactured by rolling the ingredient mixture into a thin sheet and drying it to form a thin sheet. It is subsequently broken into little bits or flakes which can be fed to fish. These flakes are made from active ingredients such as eggs, brine shrimp or earthworms and are fortified with vitamins and minerals. Flakes are made to float, sink slowly, and quickly and therefore provide the fishes to have the same chance to get their meal. Flake foods are very sought after with aquarists and are appropriate for small fishes that are less than 4 inches (10 cm) so that it is able to sustain properly and deliver a good vitamin rich meal for them. Fish food can also be made into pallets and sticks. Pallets are available in a range of sizes from tiny bits to hearty lumps. Tiny bits are small adequate for the newly hatched fry and the hearty lumps are ideal treats for the biggest specimens. Wafers are produced from ingredients that are cast into disks which will submerge to the bottom when dropped into the tank. They are best the food for herbivorous catfish, which feed primarily on the bottom.

(B) Frozen Foods
These are generally food organisms frozen to preserve the nutrients and are a good replacement for live foods. Some examples of frozen food are frozen brine shrimp, water fleas and bloodworms. There are many assortments of frozen foods available in the market today which include combining the food organisms and different blends of all sorts of fish foods. They are well accepted by aquarium fishes and are nutritious treats for your pets.

(C) Freeze Dried Foods They are light, dry and crumply food organisms that are manufactured using low pressure and low temperature and preserving the original nutrition and palatability. Since the flavour and odour is preserved, this type of food is very captivating to the fishes and the feeding response for these foods elicit is noteworthy.

(D)Others
There are other types of fish food such as “homemade” and live foods. Homemade are made by putting different ingredients in a blender with a binding agent like gelatine and freezing the resultant paste or gelled food. Live foods such as white worms, baby brine shrimp, daphnia and microworms can be obtained from a few dedicated aquarium stores and they have huge appeal to most fishes but they are generally not commercially available in the market nowadays.

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The guppyis the most popular exotic fish

The Guppy is not only the most popular exotic fish, but it has been the most important in the development and spread of the aquarium hobby. Its bright colors of infinite variety, its lively habits, its ability to stand crowding, together with the fact (always so interesting to the novice) that it is a livebearer; all these assets combine to make a quick conquest of the casual observer, who gets “hooked” before he knows it. It is therefore not too far—fetched that someone has called it the “Missionary Fish,” so many have been its converts to the ranks of aquarists.

Nor are its devotees by any means confined to beginners. In a hobby like ours in which there are so many fishes from which to choose, and to which new importations are steadily added, there are bound to be favorites come up that hold the spotlight for a time. Many have come and gone, but, like the poor, the Guppy is always with us.

Another thing about the Guppy that appeals to the advanced aquarist is its adaptability to modification through selective breeding. It is exceptional in that respect, both as to color pattern and fin formation. Most of our interesting creations among the livebearers are the results of cross—breeding between closely- related species. While Mr. Guppy shows no individual attachment to any one mate, he is, nevertheless, a “good family man,” as far as species is concerned. He is usually either unwilling or unable to fertilize a female of another species. The very few of his illegitimate children have been sterile or died young.

In my time I have had my home so populated with aquariums that my wife and children have almost been crowded out. Now all that is radically changed. I now keep only two tanks at home. One is a temporary hotel for anything “new” until it is fingerprinted and photographed. The other is a small tank set up for my own pleasure and relaxation. It contains nothing but carefully selected Guppies! Admiration for them never loses its freshness.

Among the various types of Guppies that we see nowadays, there is a strain of rather large size having a dark tail fin. This is known as the “Trinidad Guppy.” The native Guppies are only about half the size of our domesticated stock, and the vast majority of them have poor colors. It therefore seems that intelligent selective breeding has certainly greatly improved on the original stock.

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