Read About Angel Fish Food

Angel fish are great little pets to keep in your aquarium, but they can be rather picky about the angel fish food that you give them.

Giving grub to your angel fish

Angel fish are picky eaters and they will change their taste as they grow older. They will also change their preference for angel fish food as the temperature in their aquarium also changes. The best way to make sure your fish are eating is to watch them closely. After you drop food in their aquarium, make sure that each fish is ingesting the food.

Angel fish that refuse to eat may be on a hunger strike or they may be experiencing some kind of internal ailment that will need immediate attention. Adult angel fish love to eat angel fish food so if they’re not eating, that should be a signal to you that something’s wrong.

Going on strike

The hunger strike is a dangerous way for your angel fish to tell you that it’s either not digging the angel fish food that you’re feeding it or that your angel fish is displeased with the condition of its tank. If you have a clean tank and the angel fish still will not eat its fish food, you can always offer to feed it live smaller fish or baby brine shrimp. Both of these delicacies should have your fish eating out of your hands.

Angel fish fry

Though this may sound similar to a clam bake, angel fish fry is not angel fish food. It’s actually the proper name for baby angel fish. Baby angel fish need different food than adult angel fish. For the fist five or six weeks that they are alive they need to feed off of baby brine shrimp.

For babies, their angel fish food (baby brine shrimp) need to be living. After the fish fry have been around for about five weeks you can start gradually introducing them to adult angel fish food. Make sure that when you do this you monitor this progress to ensure they’re continuing to eat.

What if my fish refuses to eat?

If your fish is refusing to eat its angel fish food and you’ve already determined that it’s not on a hunger strike, you should take the fish to the vet or look for other signs of distress. If the fish has white or black splotches, is bloated, looks pale, has swollen eyes or red streaks extending from its mouth, it probably has a parasite or bacterial infection.

If this is the case, you need to separate your angel fish from the other fish in the tank because changing its angel fish food probably will not solve the problem.