do your fish tell you it's feeding time???

[Magnum Man]

2 tanks in particular, tell me it's time for breakfast... my Cichlids

are swimming sideways along the bottom trying to stir up food, and my Hillstream's are all on the front glass begging... the Tetras from both continents seem aloof like they are too proud to beg.... but the Cichlid, and Hillstream's are telling me it's time for breakfast

 

[Fishkeeper123]

2 tanks in particular, tell me it's time for breakfast... my CichlidsView attachment 365306 are swimming sideways along the bottom trying to stir up food, and my Hillstream's are all on the front glass begging... the Tetras from both continents seem aloof like they are too proud to beg.... but the Cichlid, and Hillstream's are telling me it's time for breakfast

Mine definitely do, the danios know that when I go into the room in the morning they get food and they love it

 

[GaryE]

I've always varied feeding times, skipped feedings certain days at random, etc, so I get next to no begging now. I used to see lots when I was on a stricter schedule and fed at the same general time every day.

 

[connorlindeman]

No. I vary my feeding time so they never know when to expect it. I also don't feed them every day.

 

[MaloK]

Some are less prone to it than other.

When I fed the guppy tank on regular basis, it was impossible not not pass near it without the whole bunch racing to the surface. Even worse if you extended your arm over the top of the tank.

Feeding at random time by surprise was the only way to temper the beggars.

Goldfish are on another level, they wont beg all the time like that, But when it's time... It's time. And there will be waves and protestations if you're not doing your duties assiduously.

It really depends on the the keeper more than the fish tbh. I've seen betta begging all the time and other staring at you like "What are you looking at ?"

 

[AJ356]

2 tanks in particular, tell me it's time for breakfast... my CichlidsView attachment 365306 are swimming sideways along the bottom trying to stir up food, and my Hillstream's are all on the front glass begging... the Tetras from both continents seem aloof like they are too proud to beg.... but the Cichlid, and Hillstream's are telling me it's time for breakfast

I've always thought once a day is more than enough? Unless growing out fry? I dont think I would feed my fish first thing. Once in the evening

 

[MaloK]

I receive these all the time:

 

[Magnum Man]

I do vary feeding time a little... I mostly do the Shrimp Cocktails at night, about a half hour before dark... but I'm sure everything gets eaten, without sitting over night... I started feeding in the morning, when I noticed that there was food left on the bottom, at 1st light... trying not to over feed, but in non nocturnal fish, if they didn't complete feeding, in a half hour, the food sat on the bottom until morning... so I just began feeding them normally, about a half hour after 1st light...

 

[Uberhoust]

Every evening my fish crowd the end of the tank next to the kitchen, they give a little shimmy to say "look I'm here and hungry". Dog gets upset because this usually happens as I am walking out to take him on his evening walk. After they are fed they space themselves out again throughout the tank, at least for a couple of hours. They usually try again in the later evening just before their lights go out.

 

[emeraldking]

do your fish tell you it's feeding time???​

That would probably be whenever they noticed my shadow passing by or even when I just enter the room. It's their main hobby...!

 

[Magnum Man]

Breakfast!!!!

hello???

 

[Magnum Man]

everyone got diced tubiflex cubes this morning... bite sized pieces for the bigger fish, and shred-able size pieces for the medium sized fish, which sends small worm pieces throughout the tank... the Hillstream's trap these against the glass... the Tetras all love them, when the worm segments are floating around, as well... I keep an old scissors in my work area, just for cutting up the tubiflex cubes, which they only get once every week or two...

 

[gwand]

I slice my tubifex cubes with a razor blade or soak the cubes in water until it shreds into hundreds of fragments.

 

[anewbie]

Depends on the fishes but around feeding time if i'm late the loaches will pile up next to my desk waiting to be fed and the geo certainly expect to be fed near feeding time or they make a racket.

 

[angiemike6]

I have a community tank with 32 varied fish. I only feed them once on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This is plenty frequent enough as it helps keep the tank clean, and does the fish no harm as most are betweeen 10 and 15 years of age. My old common plec lasted for 29 years. Having said this they seem to know when their feeding day is, as I feed on the mornings of those days, and they obviously know it is feeding time as the are all swiming around at the front of the tank waiting for their food. They do not do this on the non feeding days,.