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>>298950 As a cool tip, when you get fish, keep their diet varied. Dry foods (flake, freezedried, pellets etc.) is good enough by itself as long as you switch up the kinds, but it's also fun to try feeding your fish stuff like frozen foods (frozen brine shrimp and bloodworms have a higher protein/fat content than dried food, and make a yummy snack for your fish). Live food is even better, just make sure to wash it thoroughly. There are a lot of sites out there with instructions for proper live food usage.
Also, you can feed your fish vegetables! I love doing this, personally. It depends on what kind of fish you have. Since I don't have large algae growth in my otoclinus tank, I chop up courgette zucchini and blanch romaine lettuce for them. My corydoras get those, plus cucumbers, and I'm planning on trying to feed them carrots soon. The cutest thing about that is the cories don't like the skin of the courgette, and just nibble out the middle of it, leaving a tidy little green ring.
If you get a betta, feed him shelled peas. The frozen kind works well--just shell the pea with your fingernail, then cut it up into bite size pieces and drop it in. Peas serve as a laxative for them, so once-a-week pea feedings helps their digestive tract a lot. Bettas are very prone to constipation, which is uncomfortable, as I'm sure a lot of people know..
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