Beastije
Fish Addict
Hi guys, I understand this is a problem of overfeeding, but I do not know how to handle it
I have a tank full of hornwort and egeria that is filthy.
My water flow is downward facing to not disturb surface. The plants grow like the weeds they are, but every week, I have to manually tap the plants with the hose or hand, because they are just covered in material. I do this every week and I fear it is because I overfeed, but I am also cautious about having fish go hungry.
is a 360l, with eheim 2217 that is throttled to 1/3, as the fish are small neither appreciates a heavy waterflow.
I have
15x Corydoras sterbai
13x Carnegiella strigata hatchetfish
34x ember tetras (6 still in quarantine)
3x bamboo shrimp
5x rabbit tylomelania snails
I feed every other day, or one day morning the other day evening. At least two days a week I dont feed at all to try to reduce this.
I only use powder food types, not flakes. It is either sera vipan baby or dried artemia or hikari pellets. Every 4 days I will pop 2-3 small algae or other wafers and every 3 days I give snails small piece of vegetable that they eat within 24 hours (or is removed). If I feed frozen, which I do weekly, I unfreeze 1/5 of the cube that are sold here and feed it to all three tanks I have.
I change 1/4 of water every 7 days and have a massive sponge on the filter intake for mechanical filtration outside the eheim.
Nothing is visible in the water stream, everything sits on the plants, there is not a layer of detritus on the sand, but if corries do a too quick move, sometimes they lift stuff from the wood.
Despite being covered the plants are prospering. I have hard time feeding as the hatchetfish dont seem to eat as they dont open their mouths, but it has been 3 months and they are not dead so I assume they are eating. The tetras would eat the lettuce if they could and the corries have to wrestle the wafers away from the snails. If I notice shrimps running around on the surface ( if not toward a wafer, which they like to sit on too), I will feed a tiny amount as that is a sign they are hungry. I have not had to do that in two weeks or so.
I am constantly battling fear of underfeeding vs overfeeding. Corries do not have sunken bellies, I check those that I can see. I will try to add a picture of the plants, since it is 6 days past cleaning.
Any advice?
I have a tank full of hornwort and egeria that is filthy.
My water flow is downward facing to not disturb surface. The plants grow like the weeds they are, but every week, I have to manually tap the plants with the hose or hand, because they are just covered in material. I do this every week and I fear it is because I overfeed, but I am also cautious about having fish go hungry.
is a 360l, with eheim 2217 that is throttled to 1/3, as the fish are small neither appreciates a heavy waterflow.
I have
15x Corydoras sterbai
13x Carnegiella strigata hatchetfish
34x ember tetras (6 still in quarantine)
3x bamboo shrimp
5x rabbit tylomelania snails
I feed every other day, or one day morning the other day evening. At least two days a week I dont feed at all to try to reduce this.
I only use powder food types, not flakes. It is either sera vipan baby or dried artemia or hikari pellets. Every 4 days I will pop 2-3 small algae or other wafers and every 3 days I give snails small piece of vegetable that they eat within 24 hours (or is removed). If I feed frozen, which I do weekly, I unfreeze 1/5 of the cube that are sold here and feed it to all three tanks I have.
I change 1/4 of water every 7 days and have a massive sponge on the filter intake for mechanical filtration outside the eheim.
Nothing is visible in the water stream, everything sits on the plants, there is not a layer of detritus on the sand, but if corries do a too quick move, sometimes they lift stuff from the wood.
Despite being covered the plants are prospering. I have hard time feeding as the hatchetfish dont seem to eat as they dont open their mouths, but it has been 3 months and they are not dead so I assume they are eating. The tetras would eat the lettuce if they could and the corries have to wrestle the wafers away from the snails. If I notice shrimps running around on the surface ( if not toward a wafer, which they like to sit on too), I will feed a tiny amount as that is a sign they are hungry. I have not had to do that in two weeks or so.
I am constantly battling fear of underfeeding vs overfeeding. Corries do not have sunken bellies, I check those that I can see. I will try to add a picture of the plants, since it is 6 days past cleaning.
Any advice?
