Key elements in the proper care of aquarium fishes would include water quality, space, temperature, fish compatibility and food. Just "feeding the fish" is easy - buy a can of flakes or pellets at a shop and be done with it. However, a thoughtful Aquarius will go beyond this most basic feeding philosophy and at least buy two types of dry food - one for morning and one for evening. Perhaps he will even buy a package of frozen shrimp for an occasional treat. Most aquarium fish will survive with such a feeding program. After all most commercially prepared foods are carefully made with fish nutrition in mind - emphasis on "most". I once bought a can of green flakes formulated for herbivores only to see on the ingredients list that animal fat had been used as a binder! If you want to take that extra step toward maintaining your fishes' health - try a live food. Live foods can provide that extra boost that moves you from "keeping them alive" toward "enticing them to breed".
One of my favorite live foods is Daphnia. Daphnia are freshwater "bugs" that are sometimes called water fleas because of their shape, size and jerky motion. Daphnia are easy to culture if you understand their requirements. They nourish themselves by filtering small edible stuff out of their water habitat. What kind of stuff? Just about any kind of plant or animal life form th ...
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