For those of us that have small kids? (ok, fish too...)

[jakkals]

Just a question...

I've got a 5 year old boy attending pre-school and I got a note attached to his school bag on Monday, it went something like this:
"Dear Parents, please note that the days are getting shorter, Nights longer and the temperatures are dropping.
are you giving your child the necessary multi vitamins to help them cope with the change of season?"

All the the good spirit of promoting healthy kids for the winter... I guess???


Well here is my question to the old timers here on the forum:

Do you give your fish (children) some kind of "multi vitamin" or "tonic" now and then or not?
If so? what?

Regards
Jacques

[TheGrissom]

A varied, balanced diet. I have shrimp pellets, earthworm pellets, cichlid pellets, frozen bloodworm, and some tetra flake food. I had frozen brine shrimp and tubifex worms but my fish didnt eat that so I gave it away. Also your tank should be a constant temp (unless you keep coldwater fish) so they shouldnt even know its winter.

[AquaS]

I know of at least 3 products available as supplements. Seachem have a product called Nourish, Sera has Fishtamin and then there is also a product called Vitachem Fresh. I am using the Vitachem Fresh at the moment. I am planning to try out the Seachem Nourish in the future as well.

I do believe a variety diet is very important, but I also believe commercial fish foods cannot 100% replace natural foods. Therefore I also feed live food when available and use the supplement every now and then.

[Sean J]

There is also a Vitamin suppliment made by Aquamedic. The marine guys use it, and it has a picture of a Blue Ram on the box, so I'm sure it's suitable for fresh water. I use it about once a week on my fish. It's called AQUABIOVIT.

[BBQ]

Hi bud, very interesting question.
I think you higher quality flakes will be more then sufficient
They have vegi,meat and vita in it.
The reason I say this is that, wild fish won't even have access
To these kinda food and minerals.
Good feed one frozen and flake should me more then enough.
Out pet are getting some really good stuff compared to wild ones?