Feeding Plans For Fish

[Seal36]

I have a feeding plan for my fish and wanted to run it past people to make sure that it was ok

Monday morning: 1 cube of frozen brine shrimp Monday evening: 2 small algae wafer between the tank
Tuesday morning: 1 cube of frozen cyclops Tuesday evening: nothing
Wednesday morning: 1 cube of bloodworm Wednesday evening: 1 small pinch of flakes
Thursday: 1 cube of daphnia Thursday evening: nothing
Friday: 1 cube of mysis shrimp Friday evening: 1 small algae wafer
Saturday: 2 small pinches of flakes Saturday: nothing
Sunday :4 small algae wafers Sunday evening: 1 small pinch of flakes

I don't have problems with water conditions and I changed 20% water on a Wednesday and then do about a 50% change on Saturday. Also have 25 fish In the tank they are neons, honey gourami, apistogramma, panda Cory's.

From Tom

 

[Lillefishy]

Cut out the algae wafers you have no algae eaters, swap them for a good high protein catfish pellet for the corys.
Not everyone has a starve day but I do as it encourages the fish to search for any uneaten food from previous days particularly the corys.

 

[Seal36]

Ok thanks I am just using up the last of the tetra wafers mix that I had for my pleco don't know if that's any better brand. Also what would you say is a good high protein catfish pellet. I might consider putting a starve day in as that's a smart idea from Tom

 

[KittyKat]

I would recommend less live foods and more dry foods. I find that my fish do best with smaller quantities of food more often rather than only once per day.
 
If you do want to keep feeding quite high amounts of live foods, then I would prefer to feed 1/2 a cube of live food in the mornings and pinch of dry food in the evening.
 
It is also good for the fish to have one day per week without any food.

 

[CSnyder00]

Yup. Do the starve day and add more dried foods such as pellets or flakes. Use the frozen as a treat once or twice a week. Mine get bloodworms or spirulina brine shrimp once or twice a week. The rest of the week is Hikari dry food that is designed for the species I have.

 

[Lillefishy]

Cory's need live or frozen food at least 4 times a week, if you don't want your other fish getting it so often, either use a turkey baster to get it to the bottom quickly or bury a cube in the substrate, the cory's will soon find it & dig it out

 

[Seal36]

Yeah I was going to say that the Cory's need live food at least 4 days a week and I don't mind my other fish having that much live food either as that's what they would feed on in the wild and i find it hard to split a cube in half. Also the reason I use so much frozen food is that I'm conditioning the honey gourami and the apistogramma as I would like them to breed. I'm also conditioning the kribensis in my other tank from Tom

 

[KittyKat]

Fish in the wild don't have as much access to food as captive fish and the feeding habits are very different. Many species will also graze on algae and will eat very specific types of live foods. Furthermore, live foods that fish eat in the wild are eat different things from what they are fed when being bred in captivity, so will have a different nutritional content. It is not practical to recreate wild feeding habits in a home aquarium.
 
In the wild, food is not readily available to the fish all year round. Would you starve your fish to recreate nature? Probably not, and I know that I wouldn't. Fish also don't generally have an influx of food in one go, but spend most of their day grazing or looking for food and having a tiny bit here and there.
 
Corys don't have to have live foods any specific number of times per week as long as the foods that they are fed cover all of their nutritional needs. Live foods that you are feeding them are very unlikely to do this on their own.
 
Brine shrimp, cyclops and mysis are marine or brackish creatures. None of your fish are likely to come across these in the wild. In the wild, gouramis have a diet of predominantly insect larvae (these tend to stay near the surface, hence why the fish have upturned mouths). Corys would eat mainly worms and crustaceans because that's what lives in the substrate (of those Corys that live on sand, not all do). Apistogramma have a varying diet from worms and crustaceans to insect larvae and fish meat that they can scavange to fish fry to greenery, depending on species.
 
We are able to feed "unnatural" foods to our fish, and it sometimes makes sense to do this because it is better for their health and because we force unnatural feeding habits onto them.

 

[guppyguy1234]

I have mostly tetras they are..
6 rummy nose
11 neons
4 head and tail light tetras
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 siamese algae eaters
3 harlequin rasboras
4 zebra danios

This is what i feed

tetra pro crisp colour
tetra pro crisp algae
and a very small catfish pellet i recamend hikari micro pellets
crush everything up into a powder and place in a tub
monday-thursday a large pinch twice a day
friday i use aquarian algae wafers but only a quarter of one other wise fish get fat and then a small pinch of food mix in evening
saturday frozen blood eorm one cube
sunday no food 35% water change.
sorry i mean siamese algae eaters 2 of them.

 

[fish48]

 Tom your  feeding plan is ok all of your frozen foods are safe for your fish. Although feeding it alive is more beneficial a good prepared food is jmc catfish pellets.
 
Live Foods that are 100% safe white worms, grindal worms, micro worms, Vinegar eels, brine shrimp, Fruit flys, earthworms as long as thay are collected away from pesticides.
 
Foods that may carry a very slight risk are cyclops, Daphnia, blood worms, glass worms, mosquito larvae, and tubifex worms, All of the above foods are feed to my fish regularly following unatural or not all fish should have some live foods in there diet

 

[Seal36]

Thanks I think I will make Sunday my starve day and when I go to my fish shop I do get live food for them too from Tom

 

[fish48]

The best live food is tubifex worms not all lfs sale them It’s very good for getting fish into breeding conditions. I find it to have no real value when fed frozen or freeze-dry. blood worms Live or frozen are of very good value to your fish