cost per week to feed your beasts

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midnight

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just curious what everyone spends per week on feedings.
i got 10 dozen feeder guppys and 4 dozen ghost shrimp 5 days ago and there gone.
about 15 bucks. my pbass are around 4 to 5" i guess and i have 3.
say the size,how many,what ya feed them,and cost.
im thinking of netting my own minnows.
im also trying to breed mollies but i dont think they can keep up lol.
 
I have two 11" monos that eat market shrimp, krill, and frozen fish. It probably costs me about $5/week to feed those two.

I have two 3" azuls that eat bloodworms, plankton and krill. These two probably eat about $3 worth of food a week. Although now that they are large enough to eat the krill, that should go down drastically for a month or two until they are large enough to start making krill expensive for them.


All in all, I spend about $40-$50 per month on fish food. Personally I don't think that is too bad.
 
Considering all my fish are still small
and i feed them 3 times a day

i probably spend 15$ a month
thats on pellets/flakes/shrimp/bloodworms if i buy all this like i normmaly do it will last me about 4 months or so.

when my fish get bigger though thats gona be anouther story
 
midnight;495031; said:
just curious what everyone spends per week on feedings.
i got 10 dozen feeder guppys and 4 dozen ghost shrimp 5 days ago and there gone.
about 15 bucks. my pbass are around 4 to 5" i guess and i have 3.
say the size,how many,what ya feed them,and cost.
im thinking of netting my own minnows.
im also trying to breed mollies but i dont think they can keep up lol.
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Get a long handled dip net, and go to the canals in Lehigh, I used to supply all the shops in Ft Myers with grass shrimp.
 
Im gona start catching minnows for my fish... or im gona get a big ass net i can hold and just scoop near the grass and stuff...
 
I used to get 500 feeders a week. And go through about 1-2 bags of frozen shrimp a week, just for cichla.


the damn pigs.
 
can u not get ur pbass to ecept pellets anyone??? i plan on picking one up this week and im going to start conditioning him the first day, he will still have feeders but i wont have to buy 12 dozen a week, why arent u guys on pellets?
 
I got everyone beat! I only spend around 8 or 9 bucks a MONTH. I have three Pbass around a foot or more each and a silver aro(14 in) and jardini(8 in)! I dont use a heater and their metabolisms are low to begin with. I buy these bags of frozen smelt from the market and cut them up. A 3-4 dollar bag cut up will fill 3 sandwich bags. I LOVE IT! Thanks for the idea Vince!
 
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