Many friends who keep parrots think that it can eat everything. In fact, it is not true. It has some foods that parrots cannot eat, and some foods cause it to die after eating. Fish What to eat and what not to eat? You can follow the editor to learn.

What do parrot fish eat?

1. The diet of parrot fish is mixed, artificial bait, flakes, particles, Red worms, brine shrimp, water lice, mealworms, earthworms, etc. eat almost everything, and they are quite greedy, so it is easy to feed parrot fish.

2. Parrot fish is very aggressive and likes to chase and drive away other types of fish. When hungry, it will eat small fish and shrimp. Therefore, it cannot be mixed with small fish.

3. Artificial bait: that is, frozen hamburger, minced with beef heart or fat-free beef, vitamins, spirulina, color feed, yeast, egg yolk, etc., frozen storage, and then cut into pieces when used take. Frozen hamburgers are rich in ingredients and balanced in nutrition, and the thawed hamburgers are soft and easy for parrot fish to eat. However, when grabbing food and swallowing bait, the hamburgers are often scattered, the water quality is mixed, and the water is polluted. Therefore, it must be eaten after each meal. Change part of the water, otherwise the water quality will easily deteriorate, which is not conducive to the health and growth of fish.

4. Flake bait: a kind of artificial feed based on flakes, put into water or stick to the tank wall to absorb water and soften, and the fish will slowly suck it, which is more suitable for parrot fish fry, but the residual bait is scattered The bottom of the tank is not easy to remove, and it is easy to cause water pollution and disease for a long time.

5. Extruded feed: artificial feed that is manufactured by high temperature and high pressure and can maintain complete pellets for at least 3 hours in water. The particle size of extruded feed ranges from 0.5m/m of micro-particles to large particles of 7m/m, so there are extruded feeds suitable for their mouthparts from fry to adult fish. And the granularity of the extruded feed can be installed in the automatic feeder for automatic feeding at regular intervals, which can provide considerable convenience for fish farmers who travel far or have no time to feed on time. It is currently the most ideal and most convenient feed for raising parrot fish. , and is also the feed with the least pollution to the water quality.

6. Common live bait mainly include:

(1) Red worms, also known as water fleas, have high nutritional value and are the most used fish bait in China.

(2) Bloodworms are mosquito larvae. They have the highest nutritional value among all live baits, are rich in protein, and are relatively clean. They are not easy to preserve in summer.

(3) Silkworms are very easy to entrain parasites. Before feeding, they must be rinsed with plenty of water before feeding, but rinsing may not be able to wash off parasitic hydra, leeches and other parasites, so it is not Worth long-term feeding.

(4) Brine shrimp is an extremely convenient live bait, which can be fed by self-incubating, mostly nauplii that feed brine shrimp, which have just hatched from eggs , with high nutritional value. The grown adults are mostly water, and their nutritional value is not high. However, the domestic aquarium market is rare, and generally needs to be incubated by itself, which is more troublesome.

Help parrot fish add color:

You need to feed fresh shrimp regularly, or choose artificial bait specially formulated for parrot fish with added astaxanthin and D-type carotene It is not only convenient to feed directly, but also can make the body color of parrot fish more bright and beautiful. All in all, in order to ensure the bright body color of parrot fish, feed such as Bao Zenghong should be fed frequently.