Frozen Food Diet

[Zac]

I have some picky fish. Some lemon tetras, cockatoo cichlids, and ember tetras. 2/3 won’t eat anything except for frozen brine shrimp/bloodworms. The embers eat crushed pellets once in a while. The fish have been on a frozen food only diet for a week or 2 now and they seem to be doing great. But I read that you can’t feed only frozen food to fish because of the nutritional value. However, I also read that it’s completely fine. Thoughts?

[Mmiller2001]

It's fine as long as it's a varied diet. Frozen daphnia should be included in the diet. They will pick at algae and plants if they need to.

[amr427]

My tetras love freeze dried blood worms followed by the co-op small fish/fry food. They don't like krill flakes unless they are smashed up pretty small.

I am finding its just trial and error to see what they like🤷🏼‍♀️

[KaitieG]

I think you're good so long as your diet is varied as others have said.  I have embers and they like crushed flakes.  They probably wouldn't choose it over frozen foods, but they do fine eating it since it's that or hungry most of the time.