Feeding Your BBRs

I have received quite a number of PM concerning how to feed the BBRs so I thought that I will write something to help out.

It is crucial that you must find some live food or food of extremely high protein content and very easily disseminated by the BBRs. This is crucial so that BBRs can eat as much as they can, when they can. Pellet food, are not recommended for feeding, even those that are specially made for babies. Dissemination of food is crucial for the perfect growth, and development of your fish. You could find many people who say that their BBRs have developed weird shape stomach and they may argue that it's a bad fish. That's quite wrong, it is always the case that they use pellet food to feed. BBRs do not, all of a sudden, develop weird shape stomach, because they are bad fish or from bad stock. It is always because of what was fed to the BBRs.

You must never feed too much at each sitting, or leave too much left over live food in the pond. This will sure to bring gill problems for your fish. Feeding too much is a normal fault of most inexperience keepers. They think that by feeding them a lot in one go, the fish will grow to be big and beautiful. Patience is quite a virtue, when it comes to feeding BBRs. Fish that grow steadily are usually fish that will grow to become Champions. If you want your fish to grow quickly, and beautifully, please feed a little at a time, but increase the frequency of your feeding. I usually feed my BBRs with only dapphnia until they are much bigger. I often mix in one small meal of baby size pellet food (or adult food that has been crushed to a powder state) after the BBRs have changed colour fully. It is crucial that you introduce duck weed as soon as they can eat it too, since this will ensure the best complexsion. You can also use blood worm in your feeding when the BBRs are a bit bigger. I hear that you have gel food in SG and that's probably can be substituted for live feed. One more thing, I also give food at night. Please be advise that BBRs sleep at night and you should not leave too many live feed in the pond then.

The key words that you need to keep in mind all the time for BBRs are, to look at their stomach when they eat. Learn to know when they are full and when to stop. And please, be patience, never feed too much when you miss a meal, and never use your ego in raising fish. You have to keep your work regular for a long time, and do not change your schedule of feeding suddenly. Fish, like people, like to have a clean, peaceful and productive environment to grow. Try not to do too many changes suddenly with regards to your fish, ever. Introduce new factors slowly.

As soon as the BBRs start to change their colour fully, you should consider decreasing the feeding regiment accordingly. Hope that this will help ok.

Sawasdee krap

Pat

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