The beginning aquarians often ask a question: what to feed the pets with? Besides a live forage (a crank, a trubochnik, live crustaceans, etc.) dry feeds use special popularity because such forage is suitable for the use at once and it is possible to store it according to the expiration dates specified on packing.
Instruction
1. Keep in mind that dry feeds for aquarian fishes differ on a number of the bases: under the terms of dwelling, on a zone of keeping of fishes (the benthonic fishes living with a surface or in an average zone), on medical influence (usual and medical), by the form fishes.
2. For som and benthonic fishes choose bars or a dense forage which is capable to fall by the bottom. Predatory fishes, tsikhlida like to eat a forage in the form of the balls saturated with air which are at a water surface. Cockerels, the guppy, guram, ornatusa and other fishes spend the most part of time in a middle part of an aquarium therefore choose for them granules or flakes which will gradually fall by a bottom. For young small fishes use forages for whitebaits.
3. If your aquarium there live fishes of different types, then buy several bags of a forage of vegetable additives. You will be able to alternate forages or to mix them and to feed fishes with the turned-out weight.
4. Also consider type of fishes who live in your aquarium. Usual forages whereas for sea fishes it is necessary to get special forages are suitable for freshwater fishes.
5. In case of need and according to the recommendation of experts it is possible to apply a medical forage which contains the antibiotics used in case at small fishes bacterial diseases. Use medical forages with care at complex treatment of fishes.
6. Get a dry feed only in the small portions. In that case if you the owner of a big aquarium or aquasistema, then choose forages in big banks. It is better to avoid purchase of a dry feed for small fishes by weight since such forage can be stored with violation of an expiration date.
7. If you have to leave your favourites for the weekend some, then for such cases use forages for the days off which you will find in any specialized shop. Such forage represents cubes, razmokayushchy gradually, and inhabitants of an aquarium can eat it within several days.