What Do You Feed Your Celestial Pearl Danios On?

Hi Folks,

My wife looks after our Celestial Pearl Danios (CPDs). She has tried a wide range of foods with them - flake, micro pellets (0.2mm diameter), Daphnia, chopped bloodworm (from frozen), etc. But the CPDs just don't take what is offered. We can't work out how they manage to survive. Perhaps they are consuming Aufwuchs* on the Moss Ball/Taiwan Moss - if there are any Aufwuchs in the tank! Does anyone have any suggestions?

JPC 

* Sometimes known as Periphyton

Hi @fcmf

Thanks for your reply.

It's a good comparison that you have made between CPDs and Cardinal Tetras as I keep both (not in the same tank). Interestingly, the Cardinal Tetras do eat the flake that I use (currently Seachem Tropical Flakes). They love it. But they are not good with some pelleted food. I have a small pestle and mortar, which I keep for fish food. It does a very good job of grinding flake into dust! But it's not necessary to grind the Seachem flakes although I do break them up into smaller pieces before feeding time.

JPC