Frequent Aquarium Questions

• i have a dust molly and i dont know what there type is and i dont know if there are a freshwater fish or a slatwater fish.One more thing,i have four of them and i dont know what they eat.What should i feed them for now while finding theyre real food?
  
  
• Does the amount of goldfish in a bowl affect how much a goldfish will eat?
  
  
• my swordtails cant seem to find the food i put in after a while it starts to sink, how can i stop this from happening
  
  
• Other than live fish, what can I feed moray eels?
  
  
• I have a Dragon Goby (aka Violet Goby) in a freshwater tank with a crab, red lobster, and two plecos. I have been trying to feed it ghost shrimp and small feeder fish, but it is not interested in them. I also feed shrimp pellets for the other animals, but the dragon seems to have troble getting at these. What else should I try?
  
  
• I was wondering if I could feed Red-belly Pirhanas deer heart and meat?
  
  
• Why do Yellow Tangs eat a lot of food? It seems as if my Tang eats constantly without doing much else.
  
  
• I have a goldfish named Nemo that I just got yesterday. I fed him last night, but he didn't eat it. I fed him this morning and he ate all his food. I use Tetra goldfish and small koi food. Is this stuff okay? Should I continue feeding him?
  
  
• What can I feed my Golden Severum?
  
  
• How do you feed frozen food?
  
  

• i have a dust molly and i dont know what there type is and i dont know if there are a freshwater fish or a slatwater fish.One more thing,i have four of them and i dont know what they eat.What should i feed them for now while finding theyre real food?
  
  All livebearers, mollies included, will do fine with a variety of foods, including frozen food (such as mysis shrimp, et al) and flake food (of which there are a variety on the market). All mollies do best in brackish water, which is freshwater with a little salt in it (about 1.008 to 1.010 specific gravity), although they do fine in fresh water, and can even be acclimated to salt water.
  
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• Does the amount of goldfish in a bowl affect how much a goldfish will eat?
  
  If overstocked, fishes can experience appetite loss and sickness. Otherwise, the number of fish in a properly maintained environment will not affect the amount the fishes will eat.
  
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• my swordtails cant seem to find the food i put in after a while it starts to sink, how can i stop this from happening
  
  If you never see the fish eat, it is most likely not because they cannot find the food. You might try a variety of frozen and live foods, and always be sure you have good water quality and that no one is terrorizing your swords.
  
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• Other than live fish, what can I feed moray eels?
  
  Most moray eels will learn to accept a wide variety of fresh and frozen meaty foods. Krill, silversides, chopped squid, shrimp, whole clams, and mussels are a few examples of appropriate foods for your eels.
  
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• I have a Dragon Goby (aka Violet Goby) in a freshwater tank with a crab, red lobster, and two plecos. I have been trying to feed it ghost shrimp and small feeder fish, but it is not interested in them. I also feed shrimp pellets for the other animals, but the dragon seems to have troble getting at these. What else should I try?
  
  Dragon gobies are not predators, and will not eat ghost shrimp, feeder fish, or large pellets. They feed by sifting through fine sand and sediments, or by inhaling clouds of tiny food items. Try offering live brine shrimp or black worms, and frozen bloodworms or daphnia. Eventually, your dragon goby can be trained to accept very small granular foods, like Tetra Tropical Granules. This is often a difficult fish to feed, and cannot be kept with aggressive or competitive animals if it is to survive for long. Crabs and crayfish are unsuitible tankmates, as they will reach any food long before your goby has a chance to find it.
  
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• I was wondering if I could feed Red-belly Pirhanas deer heart and meat?
  
  You may feed any well-cleaned food they will eat. Prepared fish foods offer less risk of polluting the aquarium. Don't overfeed or you'll have a mess on your hands.
  
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• Why do Yellow Tangs eat a lot of food? It seems as if my Tang eats constantly without doing much else.
  
  In the wild, Yellow Tangs are grazing fish, continually eating algae and the small critters that live in it. Tangs have short digestive systems and quickly assimilate nutrients, hence the need to feed more often.
  
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• I have a goldfish named Nemo that I just got yesterday. I fed him last night, but he didn't eat it. I fed him this morning and he ate all his food. I use Tetra goldfish and small koi food. Is this stuff okay? Should I continue feeding him?
  
  Feed sparingly, once or twice a day and make sure the fish eat all the food. We have plenty of and articles on the web site about how to feed fish.
  
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• What can I feed my Golden Severum?
  
  Severums are usually not picky eaters. Most will accept flakes and pellets. Frozen and freeze-dried foods like bloodworms, daphnia, and brine shrimp are also fine. These fish are omnivores, so be sure to provide some vegetable-based foods for them, such as Spirulina flakes or Formala Two foods.
  
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• How do you feed frozen food?
  
  You can place the frozen food in a cup with some warm water and let it dissolve at room temperature. You should feed when the food is fairly soft, but not completely dissovled. If need be, you can pinch apart the food once it is in the aquarium water.
  
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