Feeding time!

[Great Lakes]

Let's get everyone on record for their feeding system. That way if someone does a search, they have a good result. And it will keep us mods from having to do all that typing over and over

I feed my fish every couple days. My tank sits at about 76 degrees, and they are active and healthy. They obviously eat everything I feed them due to the infrequency. And my tanks are relatively clean and clear because of it.

My wife, feeds her fish 3 to 4 times a day! She has her tanks cranked to about 82 degrees, filters like crazy, and her fish are very active, and grow like weeds! Her gavel also starts to look like compost :laugh:

Whatever you do, use a quality food, and don't buy a size that you won't use in a month. You don't like stale food, and neither do your fish.

So really, the only thing over feeding does is raise your maintenence level. Wife counters some of this by having good bottom feeders.
When feeding and caring for a tank, after a while you will get the correct equipment and livestock to match your fish handling characteristics.
The fun is, figuring all that out!

 

[cichlidmaster]

Well where do I start?

Let's start with the fry and work up from there:

Fry feeding schedule:
Fry get fed 4X daily

Foods: from the free swimming stage to 3 weeks newly hatched brine shrimp 4x daily

from 3 - 6 weeks....newly hatched brine shrimp and finely crushed spirulina flake food

Juvies feeding schedule:
3X daily

Foods:  crushed spirulina, color, brine shrimp and vita-boost flake foods. Frozen brine shrimp and blood worms 4X per week.


Sub/young adults feeding schedule:

Foods: Same as for juvies, but food is not crushed


Adult feeding schedule:

Foods: Same as above. Adults are fed only 1X per day during the week and 2X per day on the weekends. Every other Sunday all fish except fry do not get fed. This is to purge their system and is a practice most breeders/importers do on a regular basis.

It really is beneficial to your fish to let them go a day every 1-2 weeks without eating.

Larry

 

[adeyc]

small amounts 2x every other day with the odd treat of livebloodworm or the like every now and again. the snakeheads some thing live every couple of days.

 

[Dragonslair]

Every other day is good as fish in their wild/native habitat don't feed regurarly, however I do feed mine 2x a day. A very small amount, and it's gone in just over 2 minutes. The water is crystal clear. Temp is 26c. The weather loaches eat the most.(long story) They along with my corys sweep the bottom clean. I do every other day, drop a couple of plecomin tablets for the bottom feeders.

 

[Great Lakes]

Thanks Guys

 

[mostanks]

all my fish get fed once per day,and like cichlidmaster said evey other week (atleast once a month)they fast.

 

[Tatya]

Mine are fed 1 x a day and fast on Sundays (penance for not going to Church )

 

[dan20rhino]

Mine fed twice a day on a diet of flake food, live food and frozen blood worms.

 

[Micheal Deason]

Proper coloration and growth in an unplanted tank can only occur with 3-4 feedings daily of a mixture of live and frozen foods. Flakes are for scrubs.

 

[cichlidmaster]

one of my scrubs    
Aulonocara sp. Mozambique

Larry

 

[cichlidmaster]

And another...

Copadachromis mlotto "yellow princess"

Larry

 

[cichlidmaster]

And just one more...have to give the "scrubs" equal time  

For those of you into S/C American sp.

Heros appendiculatum  "turquoise severum"

Larry

 

[Davy Reynolds]

Cichlidmaster you have very good find indead

 

[Great Lakes]

Hey Larry, I'd take a couple of those Mozambiques along with a couple of the Reds

I know, I still have to PM you

 

[cichlidmaster]

Hey GL,
Even though their "scrubs"    

Keep in mind that these were raised on my above listed feeding routine.    

Larry