| Like other animals, in order to survive, tropical fish | | | | provide food so that your tropical fish are |
| need the right food in the right quantity. Fish tend | | | | receptive to it. |
| to be healthier in their natural habitat where they | | | | You also need to know how much food to give |
| can hunt food for themselves whenever they | | | | your fish and how often you must feed them. |
| require it. | | | | You should feed your tropical fish daily, but only |
| In an aquarium environment, obviously some | | | | give them enough food to fill them as overfeeding |
| compromises are necessary. However, it is | | | | can kill your tropical fish. |
| essential that tropical fish are fed something that | | | | When you first get your fish, they may not be |
| they can recognize as food even if they are not | | | | ease in their new environment. It will aid in the |
| accustomed to it. For this reason, the fish food is | | | | survival of your fish, if you can calm them and |
| chemically constructed to stimulate the food | | | | put them at ease in their new surroundings, |
| receptors of tropical fish. | | | | because only then will they begin eating. Algae and |
| Some fish know that it is feeding time by the | | | | rooted plants that are found in the fishes' natural |
| sound of the disturbance caused by scattering | | | | habitat, will provide your fish with an environment |
| food in the water, whereas other fish will prefer | | | | that looks as they expect it, and thus helps |
| to find the food in the tank in their own time. You | | | | achieve this end. |
| will therefore need to find the best way to | | | | |