All living creatures eat, and fish is no exception!  One of the most enjoyable part in keeping aquarium is to feed the fish.  Some species exhibit real “characters”, such as Cichlids, and others do not, such as general schooling fish. Some just eat incredibily Non-Stop, such as Goldfish with no real stomach!  Whatever species of fish it is, almost all of the aquarium kept fish learned to respond to human movement outside the aquarium, especially when a person is near. Some will come forward to the front to stare at you with a silent message most likely asking “Human, are you going to feed me? where is it??” 

All fish need to eat generally what Mother Nature intended, and there will always the case that an aquarium kept fish simply does not get enough of the variety of food they need.  There are different kind of fish food available, dry food such as flakes or pellets, live food as in any creatures that move to attract the fish to eat them, liquid food for the young fry, or frozen food of the dead living things. Some fish are. 

The most convenient method to feed your fish is flake, which is formulated by nutritionists to supply all the protein that a fish need. Feeding flake is not sufficient, a fish diet needs to be varied, just like us!  Live food such as tubifex worms, blood worms can be fed.  The disadvantage of feeding live food is the tedious manual process of getting them cleaned to reduce the risk of passing unwanted bacteria that will infect the fish. To be safe, one can hatch and rear brine shrimps to adult stage before feeding, which are generally clean.

Frozen food is an alternative to feeding live food and these food can be either bought from the stores or home made. All that is needed is to get these food stay frozen and kept fresh in the freezer. Getting frozen food ready for feeding is easy. Just get the food thawed properly without heating them to maintain as much nutrition value as possible. Good frozen food should contains good nutritional value for the fish.

Make your fish happy, by feeding them with a good rotation of variety of diet between dry, live and frozen. 

If you are lucky, your fish may let you fondle its head while it feeds off the food from your hand!  Do you know which fish does that?