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I have a tropical aquarium containing fancy guppies, ghost catfish, black kuhli loaches, and a blacknose dace. They are offered a live-bearer flake food(I breed the guppies so the flake food is more suited to them)with routine feedings of bloodoworms, brine shrimp, baby brineshrimp, and small pieces of vegetables(these often go untouched)
My guppies are always hungry, my kuhli loaches go nuts when I feed bloodworms, same with my blacknose dace, and my ghost catfish only eat every 2-3 days.
Is there anything else I can feed them that they might like? I want to stick as close to what they would be eating in the wild as I can. I’ve been thinking of eventually starting them on cultured live-food. Everything they get besides the flake food is frozen.
Fish actually have a memory of 4-6 months not 5 seconds! XD
The variety is more for their health then as a stimulation thing.

I have a male guppy and a female along with two mollies. The male guppy has not been eaten any food for the past two days. He sits at the bottom of the tank most of the time. I have tried flake food and pellets but he just doesn’t like them the other 3 fishes love them. Any suggestion?

My one aquarium of platies (also called moons) are dieing and I don’t know what it is from. I get them and they are healthy looking with no normal signs of being sick or stressed. They have the rounded bellies (like platies have), but after a couple weeks their bellies get flat looking and when I see that, they die within a day or two. I have had fish and aquariums for years, but have never seen this. I have done several treatments of binox (broad spectrum for illness) and also had done several treatments for external and internal parasites. But they contiue to look like they are just waisting away. I feed them good quality flake food, vegetable base foods, frozen brine shrimp, frozen blood worms, and frozen tubafex worms. Also put in fresh veggies for them to eat. I give them a well varied seletion of foods. My ph and ammonia levels are fine,as is all the other levels for a good healthy aquarium. Anyone have any idea what is happening? How to stop it?

When I first got my betta I bought a set of Nutrafin BETTA plus. It contained Betta Plus Water Conditioner, Nutrafin Max betta flake food w/ bloodworms, and Betta Plus Fish Bowl cleaner. I finished up the Betta Plus water condtioner yesterday and went to go buy more at SuperPet just now. I got a water conditioner/de-chlorinater called Nutrafin Aqua Plus and I was wondering if there is a difference, and if it will harm my Betta. It says that it is to be used for only freshwater and saltwater fish.

I have a tank with a Marble Veil Tail Angelfish, two platies, an algae eater and two Blue Gouramis. Very recently, I noticed that one of the gouramis was bullying the other, forcing the smaller to the bottom of the tank at feedings, not allowing it into the main tank area, forcing it to stay beneath plants, etc. This seems to be brand new behavior to me, though I also noticed today that the bully gourami is now almost twice the size of the victim – they were bought at the same time. All the fish are fed flake food 3-4 times daily in small increments, then an algae tablet at night, occasional brine for a treat, so I don’t think it’s a problem of underfeeding, plus all the other fish are healthy. The only bullying behavior seems to be occuring between these two. Is this normal? And what can I do?