When my Oscar’s were small I would put the cube in the tank to allow them to pick on it. Once they got big enough to eat it whole I dethawed it and that allows the other fish to get some too. And dethawing helps with my pencil fish and embers as well as other small fish to be able to eat them as well. Good tip! Thanks Lisa!
Thanks for the video! My bettas never use their betta leaves for resting, so I use them as dinner plates! I use a pipette to put a couple bloodworms (or mysis/brine shrimp) on the leaves and they chow down. It’s always cute to see them eagerly swim up to see what’s on the leaf today!
I feed frozen as my staple, with flake, pellet, or other as a treat. I use small plastic containers, I place the daily food for each tank in a container, add some RO water and place them in the freezer. I feed four (or more if I have a quarantine set up) tanks each day, I make a weeks worth of food at a time. I put a container in the fridge, as I pull them out to feed I replace with a frozen cup to thaw over night. Some tanks get an entire cup with several cubes dumped straight in. Some get fed with a turkey baster for a couple days before making new. Works great for me, and when I’m away it’s super easy for a tank sitter to feed exactly what I want the way I want it.
I use those little 30ml cups some fertilizers come with. One to three cubes, add little bit of warm water... Tweezers are great to get just the amount I need and to stir the fish food while it's thawing. One tip if you are out of (frozen) fish food or you'd like to add some variety: Take a piece of frozen fish fillet, shrimp or a chicken heart... and grate it fine. It's frozen, so it can be grated on fine cheese grater and most fish bigger than guppy can eat it.
Omg I was meant to watch this video. I couldn't figure out why my hands started itching like crazy a few months ago when i was feeding my fish, and i definitely use bloodsworms on a regular basis. It all makes sense now lol, Thank you Lisa ❤
Team kgtropicals Lisa another awesome video that's that's all I ever do just throw the Frozen cubes in and they take care of the rest also feeding different foods here and there in between they loved at all anyway guys see you on the next one
I’m so happy that I decided to stay up late and catch up on some videos. Thank you Lisa you have such a easy-going demeanor i’ve been watching you and your husband’s videos since he moved those big tanks down into the basement of your previous home. I see your into plants now , … hallelujah I need a couple more for my 32 gallon aquarium .I’ve been keeping fish for over 30 yrs. In the last 5 yrs. I’ve gotten rid of all the plastic and fake things out of my aquariums and really have been working hard trying to scape 5 of my aquariums and keeping them looking good .By the way I finally became a member a couple of weeks ago .Love your new format and how you’re making shorter videos with more information I just love it thank you.❤ Sorry this was supposed to be a short note I just got carried away 😂
Thanks for the video Lisa. In saltwater there's additives you can add to frozen food. I use it for both salt and fresh water fish. I add the liquid to the frozen food and stick it in the fridge overnight. Feed the next morning. That way it soaks in. Thanks so much to both you and John. I enjoy your content.
My favorite is carnivore delight with bloodworms, spirilla, brine shrimp and mytis shrimp. I also feed reptile live food cut up. And that is how you get a dwarf frog that is an inch and a year bigger than he is so posed to be
I feed my predator tank with frozen tilapia, shrimp and massivore pellets, Arowana soft sticks. But I soak them all in Zoo Plankton, Vita-chem and garlic prior to feeding. I do the same for Electric Blue Dempseys.
I feed my elephant nose fish thawed blood worms pouring them onto PVC pipe so the other fish in the tank can't get to it before them. There is an elbow at the bottom. After I pour the thawed worms in, I continue to put water in to push the worms to the bottom. They are very eager and often put their faces in the elbow in anticipation. 😊
Been buying a lot more frozen foods from the grocery store. Shrimp, salmon, tilapia, lookin to try some trout soon. It’s just significantly cheaper than what it costs at a fish store. Put it in a small cup or old fish food container to thaw and use some scissors to cut it up small. Worth the time as a pound of shrimp at a fish store can be 20-$60 and your grocery store is like 8-$12 per pound.
Another great and informative video for sure! I've been considering getting a small refrigerator or small freezer to keep my fish food in. I always try to feed a good variety of dry, live and frozen as well as make my own froze baby brine shrimp when I hatch too many 😅. I want to try making my own frozen mix of food with frozen fish squid etc, my biggest question is always is the cost of doing so worth it? Currently I have mostly small fish and nothing predatory enough to need large quantities of food but I go through so much flake and pellet food feeding the 30 ish tanks that I have.
Love all your videos, they are extremely helpful for amateur fishkeepers and experienced. I do have a suggestion for video because I got a new 45 gallon tank and I would like to have community fishes both small and large in it. The large with a max size within 1 1/12 inch? Maybe? I dunno. But I need your advice in picking what types of fishes that would play well with others regardless of their sizes.
What frozen meal would you feed goldfish? I tried grocery store raw shrimp, I boiled it, grind it up but they just spat it out. I do give them peas but I want to try other stuff.
Try very hard boiled egg yolk. Just plop it in the water (can be messy) Well boiled carrot slices, very well boiled cucumber slices. Mine like broad beans (boiled) but do remember to take the skins off.
Do you feed the many varieties of food all at the same time and let the fish decide what they want to eat (which is what I do) or just give them a different option every feeding?
No. I feed the same thing to all the bettas at once but rotate food daily or every other day. It's easier to feed more than one food to the larger tanks though.
White mosquito larvae would be better then bloodworms, bloodworms are like getting a with extra special sauce Big Mac... There are a few that can take it, Puffer fry, Discus fry, Bettas, Black Ghost Knife and Rope fish. But Bettas you have so many different otions that would be cheaper and more healthy. All those fish I wrote her can take it when they are small to really start growing and getting used to being with you in the aquarium. But I currently own all of them. All of mine eat only dryfood now, even my Discus. You just have to train them. I say bloodworms kill more fish than people know. They get so easily attach to earing just that, and like I said, it is probably the most unhealty frozen food. Turkey Baster and aquarium water mixed with Frzen Artemia or White Mosquiti larvae would be better for your Bettas, and cleaner for the water system. But you do what ever you want, just trying to help with some facts. I ca not wait until you guys fill those up and do a tour video of every Betta! That would be awesome. Everybodyy lovrd Bettas 🤗
Are we only supposed to feed frozen 2 times a week? 😮 I've been feeding frozen as main diet 😅but I switch blood worms and my floating chiclid cubes every couple days. And leave flakes as a quick out the door on weekends 🙃 😅
i wonder if there are a lot of people who are allergic to blood worms. That's a good idea. sometimes i don't want to touch the worms so it works for me on more finicky days.
I never understood why some fish keepers are so against live food. It was alive before you froze it. I do euthanize my rodents before freezing, but that is only for the protection(bites) of my reptiles.
I don't know how you euthanize your rodents but the best way is to remove them from the nest and put them straight in the freezer. I used to do this with "pinkies" for the snake.
Feeder fish are rife with diseases and parasites that can and are introduced into a system when you feed live. There is also a safety aspect as you mentioned. In the wild most predators have no choice, but they are often scarred or even killed by prey. Finally there is the pain and suffering of the prey, again in nature it is what it is, but we do not have to follow along. I can use circulation pumps in my tank to simulate prey trying to escape, and I can even grab mice or rats and tug on them to make snakes and lizards think they are killing something. I do feed live bugs to my insectivores, but if I could find a diet they would eat that I didn’t have to buy or care for so often just for the sake of convenience I would.
Well, I will try later on the plants, because almost every single one i wanted was sold out of. I have some of the other ones that are not sold out .I just wanted something different.
do oyu refreeze any leftover frozen food? i only have a small amount of fish so they couldnt eat the whole lot (but my dwarf gourami will probably try....)
My fish are spoiled on frozen food lol. They won't even eat the flakes or pellets anymore lol. I feed once every other day. And unless it's frozen bloodworms they are not the most excited lol
I will feed them only if I know they are safe from pesticides. Maybe place a small bucket of water outside and let skeeters lay in it and that would be safe, but neighbors may spray for other insects and you may catch those. Also they may not be that nutritious, so I would use as a treat or to entice breeding behavior and not as my main source of food.
I also feed my fish frozen foods 3 to 4 times a week, both at home and at work. One thing that drives me crazy is if my work partner doesn't use all the melted frozen food and he puts it back in the freezer!! I say"NO NO NO!!!" Am I right? It drives me up the wall!! I think it can be harmful to the fish. Could you comment, so I can show him?
If you can send me your logo I think I have some scrap wallnut laying around to make John his own cutting board with your logo engraved and epoxy filled.
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When my Oscar’s were small I would put the cube in the tank to allow them to pick on it. Once they got big enough to eat it whole I dethawed it and that allows the other fish to get some too. And dethawing helps with my pencil fish and embers as well as other small fish to be able to eat them as well. Good tip! Thanks Lisa!
Thanks for the video! My bettas never use their betta leaves for resting, so I use them as dinner plates! I use a pipette to put a couple bloodworms (or mysis/brine shrimp) on the leaves and they chow down. It’s always cute to see them eagerly swim up to see what’s on the leaf today!
I feed frozen as my staple, with flake, pellet, or other as a treat.
I use small plastic containers, I place the daily food for each tank in a container, add some RO water and place them in the freezer. I feed four (or more if I have a quarantine set up) tanks each day, I make a weeks worth of food at a time.
I put a container in the fridge, as I pull them out to feed I replace with a frozen cup to thaw over night.
Some tanks get an entire cup with several cubes dumped straight in. Some get fed with a turkey baster for a couple days before making new.
Works great for me, and when I’m away it’s super easy for a tank sitter to feed exactly what I want the way I want it.
I use those little 30ml cups some fertilizers come with. One to three cubes, add little bit of warm water... Tweezers are great to get just the amount I need and to stir the fish food while it's thawing.
One tip if you are out of (frozen) fish food or you'd like to add some variety: Take a piece of frozen fish fillet, shrimp or a chicken heart... and grate it fine.
It's frozen, so it can be grated on fine cheese grater and most fish bigger than guppy can eat it.
Great video, Lisa! We use SF Bay as well. Our fish love the Mysis and Brine shrimp, we usually feed it twice a week.
Sometimes I think bloodworms can cause problems with digestion and cause bloating. I cut up the thawed bloodworms for my Platies.
It was fun watching the bikers eat. Love your videos, thank you for sharing with us as always.
Omg I was meant to watch this video. I couldn't figure out why my hands started itching like crazy a few months ago when i was feeding my fish, and i definitely use bloodsworms on a regular basis. It all makes sense now lol, Thank you Lisa ❤
Glad to help 😊
I’m prone to Eczema, so have to wear nitrile gloves when I feed my fish Bloodworms.
Team kgtropicals Lisa another awesome video that's that's all I ever do just throw the Frozen cubes in and they take care of the rest also feeding different foods here and there in between they loved at all anyway guys see you on the next one
I’m so happy that I decided to stay up late and catch up on some videos. Thank you Lisa you have such a easy-going demeanor i’ve been watching you and your husband’s videos since he moved those big tanks down into the basement of your previous home. I see your into plants now , … hallelujah I need a couple more for my 32 gallon aquarium .I’ve been keeping fish for over 30 yrs. In the last 5 yrs. I’ve gotten rid of all the plastic and fake things out of my aquariums and really have been working hard trying to scape 5 of my aquariums and keeping them looking good .By the way I finally became a member a couple of weeks ago .Love your new format and how you’re making shorter videos with more information I just love it thank you.❤ Sorry this was supposed to be a short note I just got carried away 😂
Thanks for the video Lisa. In saltwater there's additives you can add to frozen food. I use it for both salt and fresh water fish. I add the liquid to the frozen food and stick it in the fridge overnight. Feed the next morning. That way it soaks in. Thanks so much to both you and John. I enjoy your content.
Perfect timing! I was just looking into this last night for my little betta 😊
Thanks Lisa. I still love your discus tank.
Use a turkey baster, I've heard it works really nice instead of tweezers
great stuff Lisa✌🏽
I’m allergic to bloodworms too(or at least they’re freeze dried shavings😖) Stay safe you guys!
I looked for an earthworm in my yard. Clean it up real good and feed it to my Betta in tiny pieces. He loves them.
My favorite is carnivore delight with bloodworms, spirilla, brine shrimp and mytis shrimp. I also feed reptile live food cut up. And that is how you get a dwarf frog that is an inch and a year bigger than he is so posed to be
I feed my predator tank with frozen tilapia, shrimp and massivore pellets, Arowana soft sticks. But I soak them all in Zoo Plankton, Vita-chem and garlic prior to feeding. I do the same for Electric Blue Dempseys.
I feed my elephant nose fish thawed blood worms pouring them onto PVC pipe so the other fish in the tank can't get to it before them. There is an elbow at the bottom. After I pour the thawed worms in, I continue to put water in to push the worms to the bottom. They are very eager and often put their faces in the elbow in anticipation. 😊
Been buying a lot more frozen foods from the grocery store. Shrimp, salmon, tilapia, lookin to try some trout soon. It’s just significantly cheaper than what it costs at a fish store. Put it in a small cup or old fish food container to thaw and use some scissors to cut it up small. Worth the time as a pound of shrimp at a fish store can be 20-$60 and your grocery store is like 8-$12 per pound.
Another great and informative video for sure! I've been considering getting a small refrigerator or small freezer to keep my fish food in. I always try to feed a good variety of dry, live and frozen as well as make my own froze baby brine shrimp when I hatch too many 😅. I want to try making my own frozen mix of food with frozen fish squid etc, my biggest question is always is the cost of doing so worth it? Currently I have mostly small fish and nothing predatory enough to need large quantities of food but I go through so much flake and pellet food feeding the 30 ish tanks that I have.
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A Turkey baster is good Lisa, plus you get more up the tube than tweezers👍🏼
My fish love their frozen treats....
My Mrs always moans at me why the fish-cutting board is in the fish-room and not the kitchen LOL #greetingsfromgermany
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I use a turkey baster to feed thawed frozen shrimp and worms
Love all your videos, they are extremely helpful for amateur fishkeepers and experienced. I do have a suggestion for video because I got a new 45 gallon tank and I would like to have community fishes both small and large in it. The large with a max size within 1 1/12 inch? Maybe? I dunno. But I need your advice in picking what types of fishes that would play well with others regardless of their sizes.
Jack likes the baby brine and krill with spirulina. Wasn't sure if he was big enough for blood worms. Guess who's getting blood worms today 👍
I’ve always wanted to feed my cory cats bloodworms so I’ll find some
Blood and especially black worms makes my cory Venezuela's go CRAZY 😂
Thank you Lisa
Vid about seachem nets! Literally no one has anything about them and they are pretty awesome.
What frozen meal would you feed goldfish?
I tried grocery store raw shrimp, I boiled it, grind it up but they just spat it out.
I do give them peas but I want to try other stuff.
Where you messed up was cooking it. Try shredding it raw on a grater and feeding them the shrimp flakes
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Okay, I’ll try that.
Thanks
Try very hard boiled egg yolk. Just plop it in the water (can be messy) Well boiled carrot slices, very well boiled cucumber slices. Mine like broad beans (boiled) but do remember to take the skins off.
@@rosemarydudley9954 okay. Thank you.
Do you feed the many varieties of food all at the same time and let the fish decide what they want to eat (which is what I do) or just give them a different option every feeding?
No. I feed the same thing to all the bettas at once but rotate food daily or every other day. It's easier to feed more than one food to the larger tanks though.
White mosquito larvae would be better then bloodworms, bloodworms are like getting a with extra special sauce Big Mac... There are a few that can take it, Puffer fry, Discus fry, Bettas, Black Ghost Knife and Rope fish. But Bettas you have so many different otions that would be cheaper and more healthy. All those fish I wrote her can take it when they are small to really start growing and getting used to being with you in the aquarium. But I currently own all of them. All of mine eat only dryfood now, even my Discus. You just have to train them. I say bloodworms kill more fish than people know. They get so easily attach to earing just that, and like I said, it is probably the most unhealty frozen food. Turkey Baster and aquarium water mixed with Frzen Artemia or White Mosquiti larvae would be better for your Bettas, and cleaner for the water system. But you do what ever you want, just trying to help with some facts. I ca not wait until you guys fill those up and do a tour video of every Betta! That would be awesome. Everybodyy lovrd Bettas 🤗
How would you feeed frozen in a 125 gallon community small Tetra fish tank with about 75 occupants.?
What is best for Ciclids, bloodworms or shrimp brine??
Been using Freeze Dried foods, rotate which ones, for awhile. Will look into Frozen.
Are we only supposed to feed frozen 2 times a week? 😮 I've been feeding frozen as main diet 😅but I switch blood worms and my floating chiclid cubes every couple days. And leave flakes as a quick out the door on weekends 🙃 😅
Awesome video! Just curious but what temp do you keep your discus? Thanks
84-85°
i wonder if there are a lot of people who are allergic to blood worms. That's a good idea. sometimes i don't want to touch the worms so it works for me on more finicky days.
I never understood why some fish keepers are so against live food. It was alive before you froze it. I do euthanize my rodents before freezing, but that is only for the protection(bites) of my reptiles.
It's just kinda gross and you have to maintain it. Frozen is just more convenient is all
I don't know how you euthanize your rodents but the best way is to remove them from the nest and put them straight in the freezer. I used to do this with "pinkies" for the snake.
@@rosemarydudley9954 (CO2) inhalation for guinies and LG rats.
Usually it's the quality of water that the live fish are kept in at the store.
Some fishkeepers do keep cultures of brine shrimp or worms or the like!
Feeder fish are rife with diseases and parasites that can and are introduced into a system when you feed live.
There is also a safety aspect as you mentioned. In the wild most predators have no choice, but they are often scarred or even killed by prey.
Finally there is the pain and suffering of the prey, again in nature it is what it is, but we do not have to follow along. I can use circulation pumps in my tank to simulate prey trying to escape, and I can even grab mice or rats and tug on them to make snakes and lizards think they are killing something.
I do feed live bugs to my insectivores, but if I could find a diet they would eat that I didn’t have to buy or care for so often just for the sake of convenience I would.
Well, I will try later on the plants, because almost every single one i wanted was sold out of. I have some of the other ones that are not sold out .I just wanted something different.
do oyu refreeze any leftover frozen food? i only have a small amount of fish so they couldnt eat the whole lot (but my dwarf gourami will probably try....)
We don't refreeze. Try cutting the cubes and putting in a container for later.
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I buy a nice brick of brine shrimp and it lasts for like 4 months
Do you guys breed fish?
My fish are spoiled on frozen food lol. They won't even eat the flakes or pellets anymore lol. I feed once every other day. And unless it's frozen bloodworms they are not the most excited lol
Frozen food options for Lake Malawi Haps / Peacocks?
I have an allergy to bloodworms too ☹️
Fantastic info. Do you deshell the shrimp? I feed to my juvenile Oscar but struggle to get the shells off!
We buy the shrimp already shelled. It saves so much time
@@KGTropicals How have I not though of that lol.Thanks!
I have a problem cutting blood worm's to feed my chili rasbora. Any suggestions 🤔
They are small enough to eat. Don't cut them up. The fish can play tug of war and have some fun...
Try frozen cyclops or baby brine shrimp instead. They are super nutritious and fit the mouths of the rasboras.
I've always wondered about live foods as in ants, fly/mosquito larva, meal worms. Is this recommended or something that I should avoid?
I will feed them only if I know they are safe from pesticides. Maybe place a small bucket of water outside and let skeeters lay in it and that would be safe, but neighbors may spray for other insects and you may catch those.
Also they may not be that nutritious, so I would use as a treat or to entice breeding behavior and not as my main source of food.
Do you think you might start selling frozen on your site? I know the logistics of shipping frozen foods might be problematic. Just curious.
Most likely not.
I really like hikari frozen compared to San Fran bay co
Hikari is the best. Sfbb have had poor hygiene control so their worms had issues prior years
Well, I do like ice cream, and it comes from the freezer.
Do you feed blood worms to your discus is it safe I also keep Malawi haps with those I will not feed them blood worms please let me know thanks
Hey Mark! Yes I feed frozen bloodworms on occasion but not more than once a week.
@@KGTropicals thanks guys 👍
I had no idea you could get an allergy from bloodworms
All my fish have white poop! At first it was just one now all five of my platys have it. Stomachs seem bloated maybe 🤔
But idk what to do
That bichir looks like a reptile. A heckin lizard.
I also feed my fish frozen foods 3 to 4 times a week, both at home and at work. One thing that drives me crazy is if my work partner doesn't use all the melted frozen food and he puts it back in the freezer!! I say"NO NO NO!!!" Am I right? It drives me up the wall!! I think it can be harmful to the fish. Could you comment, so I can show him?
We recommend not to thaw and refreeze.
You guys going to aquashella Dallas this year?
We'll be there!
Should I thaw my ice cream?
If you can send me your logo I think I have some scrap wallnut laying around to make John his own cutting board with your logo engraved and epoxy filled.
That bichir is a very layed back eater.
You can eat ice ream right out the freezer
But not gobble it. I've seen an angelfish biting into a cube I didn't let thaw completely. Obviously the fish didn't like that bit.
Dinitrole
I shave mine with a knife