🍖Food for your fish: how to choose

Diet is the number-one health lever for your fish — and the product family with the loudest marketing. Our guides compare product types, teach you to read a label and give realistic price ranges, so you feed right without paying for the packaging.

The key point : The top cause of tank pollution is overfeeding: whatever the fish do not eat within two minutes ends up as nitrates.

Our dedicated guides

• Live and frozen fish food: the guide to getting started

  Bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia: live and frozen food transforms your fish’s health. Formats, prices, precautions and the ideal feeding frequency.

• Automatic fish feeder: go on holiday with peace of mind

  Which automatic fish feeder should you choose for the holidays? Drum or screw mechanism, anti-overfeeding settings, prices: the guide before you leave.

• How much does fish food cost per month? Real budget and money-saving tips

  The aquarium fish food budget: 3 to 8 € per month for a 100-litre community tank. Breakdown by food type and anti-waste tips.

• Going away for two weeks: how to manage the aquarium without stress?

  Going on holiday for two weeks with an aquarium: healthy adult fish fast for a week without risk; beyond that, an automatic feeder or a neighbour. The full departure plan.

• Feeding a Betta or a Goldfish: Flakes, Pellets or Frozen Food?

  Flakes, pellets, frozen food: portions, frequency and mistakes to avoid when feeding a betta or a goldfish, with realistic budgets.

Food by breed or species

• Goldfish
• Betta
• Guppy
• Neon tetra
• Platy
• Molly
• Swordtail
• Corydoras
• Angelfish
• Discus
• Danio
• Gourami
• Bristlenose pleco
• Killifish
• Cherry shrimp
• Axolotl