Pet Care Articles from PETCO

Fish - Nutrition

Nutritional Differences Between Flake, Pellet, Freeze Dried and Live Fish Foods
The various kinds of fish foods provide you the opportunity to vary the diets of your fish both to meet their nutritional needs and to provide interest and stimulation.Manufactured foods such as flakes and pellets are generally made from cereals, ...

Dangerous Foods
You might be surprised to find out what foods are dangerous to your fish.

Diet Variety
Fish diets are easy and totally predictable. As as aquarium owner, you shouldn't be too concerned about providing a wide variety of foods. However, you should be watchful about the amount the fish is receiving. Overfeeding fish is far more serious than ...

How Often Should I Feed My Fish?
Many people prefer to feed fish twice a day, once in the morning and again in the evening. However, in an attempt to mimic natural feeding habits, you should feed very small amounts of food four to six times a day if possible, being careful not to ...

The Do's and Don'ts of Fish Nutrition
Left to themselves in nature, fish look after their own nutrition pretty well. But once you put fish in your aquarium, you become their dietician as well as their owner. And if you have a complex community of different kinds of fish, meeting their ...

Important Nutrients
Aside from providing your fish with a habitat as close to nature as possible, your other important responsibility is feeding them the proper kind and the right amount of food. To do this, you need to be knowledgeable about your fish's nutritional ...

Omnivore Diets
Omnivorous fish are the easiest to feed because they eat all kinds of fish food including flakes, tablet and pellet foods, and frozen and live foods like brine shrimp, worms and mosquito larvae. These fish also do well being fed small amounts of ...

Feeding Live Foods
Feeding your fish the appropriate diet depends on the type of fish you have, their size and their phase in life. If you are taking care of carnivorous and omnivorous fish, you can feed them live food - an option that can save you money and give you the ...

Diet and Nutrition
Fish in the wild don't forage for multicolored flakes of nutritionally balanced, store-bought food. Instead they nibble on plants, swallow an insect now and then, or eat whatever other nutritious morsels they find floating around in their lake, stream or ...

Appetite Loss
Something's wrong when your little swimmer stops feasting.