I have fed my fishes once a week of these frozen goldfish food from San Francisco Bay Brand.. It seems to contain lots of great stuff. Has any others have used these types of foods? Exactly how do you prepare these? i just mix it with a little tank water and then use a syringe and feed them that way. But the syringe is a little hard to pass the food through it. Do you usually pour it in like that? Any other way?

Kamster

Kamster, I use the SF brand frequently when feeding frozen foods. Although, to be on the complete safe side, I switched to Hikari frozen foods. They are sterilized in the process, and dont' have harmful bacteria. Considering how bloodworms are raised, they tend to carry around a few cudos every now and then.
I hate the look when you release a cube of frozen foods into the tank, and after a minute it looks like red snowflakes all over the place. Not to mention that half the food gets sucked up into the filter before the fish can eat it. So I got a feeding cone. Its a handy little thing that sticks to the glass of the tank via suction cup, and you can put the frozen foods in there. No floating around, and the fish know that they are supposed to suck the foods out of the cone's hole at feeding time.

Here is a picture of one....
http://freshaquarium.about.com/gi/dynamic/...%3D2004%2B62741

Thanks Ranchugirl, that is a great idea! i saw one too at the pet store, i will go get one i also saw that they have Hikari brand, so i will check it out. The fish store clerk told me that i should not feed bloodworms to goldfish? Is that true?
That is why i have been feeding them Brine Shrimp.

Kamster

A lot of people, including breeders in China big time, feed their fish bloodworms. Mine go crazy for it, and even the one month old fry get their share now, although for them its finely chopped up...

weird 3 fishe store guy told me not to? But i am taking your advise instead. What is the nutrition value on Blood worms? or Krill or Brin shrimp?

Kamster

I feed my goldfish hikari frozen bloodworms every other day. I have tried frozen brine and frozen mysis shrimp and find the bloodworms much better. I have a 40 gallon tank with three goldfish from 2.5 to 5 inches. Therefore, I need fairly large food "bits" which the bloodworms provide. I don't, however, drop the cube in the tank. I can imagine that between the filter current and the goldies attack, the bloodworms would be reduced to fragments. What I do is drop the cube into a small glass and add just enough water to barely float the cube. I let it sit for 5 minutes to defrost the cube. Then I add a bit of water from the aquarium, swirl, and pour in a bit of the worms. The goldfish attack this without a single worm hitting bottom. I just stand there and repeat 5 or 6 times until the worms are gone. Truth be told, I pour a little heavily at the end so that some of the worms settle onto the gravel (front and center - I shut off my filters for 5 minutes). The fish love to scour the gravel looking for the last few worms and they don't miss any.

They love this routine, results in no waste, and I believe that the worms (like many fresh frozen whole foods) are very nutritious. My orange oranda has doubled in length in less than 3 months.

Good luck and go for the frozen bloodworms!

Dennis

Kamster, all the frozen foods are high in proteins, which is very important for especially young fish to give them the proper growth early in life. When they get older, they still need protein, but not in such a high percentage anymore.
Frozen foods are also much easier digested than pellets or flakes, and the live versions of many frozen foods, like mosquito larvae and daphnia, are things that are usually in the fish's natural environment in the wild. While pellets and flakes, well, are not exactly roaming around naturally!
Although frozen foods shouldn't be fed as sole food source. Fish in the wild scavange over the bottom of lakes and rivers all day long and pick up plants, the live foods and whatnots. So other foods should be provided for their overall well being as well.

Hmmm, interesting, i went out and bought Hikari bloodworms and Krill. I will feed the worms to them tonight, thanks!

Kamster