How to Feed Dwarf Angel Fish

Dwarf angelfish make spectacular and interesting additions to a marine aquarium. These little fish are territorial, however, and unless the aquarist is fortunate enough to obtain a mated pair, only a single specimen should be included in the aquarium. Keeping a dwarf angelfish can be a fun and rewarding experience, and feeding them is simple and easy to do.

Things You'll Need

  • Marine aquarium
  • Live rock
  • Blanched spinach
  • Commercial algae strips
  • Plastic produce clip
  • Marine fish flakes
  • Small plastic dish
  • Marine liquid multivitamin
  • Frozen, commercial angel diet
  • Freeze dried blood worms
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Instructions

    • 1

      Place a number of live rocks that have generous growths of algae on them into the aquarium. Live rocks are not alive, but contain encrusting growths, including different algae species and tiny marine copepods, upon which dwarf angelfish feed.

    • 2

      Attach a plastic produce clip to a piece of blanched spinach. Use the adhesive suction cup on the clip to attach the spinach to the inside glass of the aquarium. Place the spinach toward the rear of the aquarium, where there are fewer disturbances from activity outside the aquarium. Do not place it in the direct flow from a power head or filter exhaust pipe. Feed on alternate days.

    • 3

      Replace the blanched spinach with commercial algae strips on every other day.

    • 4

      Add a quarter teaspoon of live brine shrimp to the aquarium twice a week. Place the shrimp as far as possible from the intake pipe of our filter, to prevent them from being removed from the water before the angel can feed on them.

    • 5

      Place a few high quality marine fish flakes into a small, clean plastic dish and add one or two drops of a liquid marine multivitamin to the flakes. Allow the multivitamin to seep into the flakes before feeding. Feed these vitamin enriched flakes on alternate days.

    • 6

      Thaw a block of frozen, commercial angel food. Cut or crumble the thawed food into small pieces and feed once daily.

    • 7

      Add a pinch of freeze dried blood worms to a small dish and soften with a teaspoon of water. Feed the blood worms twice a week.