How much do you feed your fish?

[pulido_robert]

Pretty simple. How much, how often, and what do you feed them?

 

[FroggyFox]

Well I dont have any fish that will get as large as yours...I generally feed them once a day, and skip at least one day a week where they dont get fed at all. I drop in algae tablets and shrimp pellets in the tanks with snails and other bottom feeders. They all get a slice of cucumber probably once a month or so. The usual staple is tetramin tropical crisps for my community tanks, and OSI Cichild flakes for my cichlids. I drop in a cube of bloodworms or other frozen foods (krill etc) probably twice a week instead of flake foods on all the tanks. The betta gets hikari betta bites, about 8 a day, but he also loves the bloodworms and sometimes I'll drop some mosquito larvae in the tank for him during the summer. The cichlids also get a few ghost shrimp once a month as a treat.

 

[svetlana]

I feed my cichlids (2 severums and 1 jack depmpsey) once daily. Each gets ~2/3 of earthworm and some bloodworms. Also i am throwing some shrimp pellets for severums to distract them from plants and synodontis likes them too. Sometimes i give them 2 cichlid sticks.

 

[fibrechunk]

I mix like 5 or six different food types and feed them once a day. I use large sinking and floating pellets. I know you are suppose to feed them a two minutes of food but that I think would be too much for Red Devils, Convicts and JD. They are pigs when it comes to eating. I try to put enough in the tank to last 1 minute tops.

 

[Firebug]

I just feed mine flakes, freeze-dried bloodworm, freeze-dried tubifex worms, and brine shrimp pellets..oh, and for my cichlids, add cichlid granules to the list! I only feed them once daily.

 

[phOOey]

i mainly feed my salvini hikari cichlid pellets, gold and complete, 3 times a day. Also about twice a week i'll give him freeze dried blood worms, and then on sundays.... live bloodworms lol

 

[Orion]

OSI: Cichlid staple flake 2x a day, Hikari cichlid old and excell once a week, Spirulina flakes a few times a week, frozen bs a few times a month.

This is for my main tank. Others get similar foods and feeding times.

 

[mattdoe78]

Um wardley medium cichild pellets 3x a day or even more whenever every1 is hungry the jd is always hungry now I put like 25 rosy reds from my feeder tank in there petstore style lol. my jd is attacking my male convict this is unusual the con usually attacks the jd lol

 

[derajer]

I feed my fish Omega Flake food twice a day, a couple of slices of cucumber a week, bloodworms every three day (after lights out), and occassionally I throw in some Hikari Bottom feader pellets.

 

[Kuroshio]

I personally think that it is important to give the fish and the tank bacteria a day or two of fasting a week. The other 5 days I feed twice a day as much as they eat, usually one minute or less, but (the cichlids) are still babies (4-5 months old), I am sure the time will increase as they grow.

 

[Cutlass]

Mine are young, so I feed them in the morning and evening. Tetra Color Bits.

 

[fibrechunk]

I think as a general rule the bigger the fish the less often you have to feed them. So the little fish you might have to feed them more often. For example a neon you might want to feed twice a day and a bigger Oscar once a day will surfice.
Note the size of food for the fish. *BOUNCINGS You don't feed a neon a large pellet and don't feed a big Oscar little flakes. *DRUMMER*

 

[discus4everGrl]

well my cichlids, discus, I feed three times a day. I feed them two meals of tetramins. The third meal is a little more homemade, kinda gross though for some people. I take nice meaty live night crawlers, raw scallops, spinach, fish vitamins, and blood worms and put them in a food processor. I chop lightly and scoop into a ice cube tray and freeze. Once a week I also give them frozen brine shrimp as a treat. I also take pea's cook them, de-shell them and add to the mix at times as well.

 

[svetlana]

You are quite a witch! *thumbsup2

 

[straitjacket]

I'll feed my fish 3-5 or 6 times a day. Basically whenever I walk by any of the tanks every few hours and of anything I have on hand which would include Tetra, Wardly, Hikari and Hai Feng brand flakes, colour enhancing flakes, staple pellets, colour pellets, Hikari algae wafers, sinking tablets, Omega One spirulina, bulk spirulina, frozen or freeze-dried brine shrimp, bloodworm, daphnia, live bloodworm, brine, baby brine, mosquito larvae, micro-worm, and a number of fresh veggies and a few fruits. Of course not all the tanks get everything on the list. The I probably would have lost all my mbuna a loooong time ago if I fed them the way I do the Central Americans. I let my fish fast for a day or two a week or every other week and have never had a diet related problem...except when I went on holiday that one time and the hungry more aggressive fish decided to make meals out of their more docile and tasty looking tankmates.
I never could stand skinny, hollow-bellied fish.

 

[ozziegt]

My little neons get a pinch of food once or twice a day on the weekdays and don't get anything over the weekends. The shrimp pick up the leftovers.

 

[bubblecandy]

I like to feed my cichlids peas and corn once a week, shrimp pellets and bloodworms once a week. On occasion I feed them veggie flakes, ect. My pleco gets his algae wafer every other night. But mineral flakes is the main diet. So basically I feed once a day every two days.

 

[Exevious]

I feed the 16 Once daily skipping about every third day... just tetra flakes.

but feed the 37 2-3 small meals a day. I worry about bloat with the cichlids... and the pictus catfish will eat until suicide... so they have to have several small meals daily.. skipping about every third day. I feed them tetra flakes and cichlid pellets.. I also break up weekend feeders and drop several pieces around the tank for the crawfish to munch on and just add a few pieces here and there as needed.