Feeding tropical fish with goldfish pellets?

[Fishkeeper123]

Okay when I get my new fish I will get some tropical flakes. The danios will always eat it but that’s probably because they are danios. Thanks for the help.

 

[Alan_ Mackey]

Goldfish foods usually have less protein but not as much as I prefer to feed my tropical fish. It's not that you can't feed GF food sometimes but it's not as good for your other fish long term. Their "filler" (corn, soy, wheat, etc) ingredients are not what most tropical fish can digest & thrive on. Just buy better foods. Read the ingredients, the list is by what is most prevalent. So, look for fish-type stuff like salmon, shrimp etc., & maybe some veggies for the first 3 ingredients.

I'm not a fan of mealworms & hate tubifex in any form. Mealworms have a very tough outer chitin layer that many fish cannot digest well. Tubifex are "sewer" worms; they thrive in nasty sludge, EWW! I don't like them in any form or almost any freeze dried foods, even 1s that should be good for our fish like FD blackworms. Just my personal experiences. FD foods can crumble into dust & need to be rehydrated for too long for me.

I will have to look up "aqua care flakes" later...I'm skeptical just by the name.
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I'm not a big fan of mealworms either, especially because of their hardness, and try to avoid them in feeding. As for mealworms, I've heard that they can be beneficial for certain species of fish

 

[Fishkeeper123]

I had a look online and all there food has mealworms in it( the tropical one to) so might get some food from a different brand.

 

[fishorama]

Yep, it's always good to read fish food labels. For general fish food I like Omega 1 Super Color Flakes & some others.

 

[Fishkeeper123]

I bought some yesterday for my new fish( Bolivian rams and a Bristlenose pleco) I haven’t fed them yet tho. But I got pro novel bel( it contains a lot of meat ingredients) and then aquacare sprirulina wafers but I fed them to the garra and he didn’t eat any of it, I’m not sure what to do I might feed him some of the new tropical food just to see if he likes it but all he seems to eat is algae.