Do you give your fish equal treatment?

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Do you treat your more expensive fish differently than your cheaper fish? Example, do you feed your Tigrinus raw shrimp but Oscar catfish chow?

I try to be fair and feed all the same food but the oscar is just such a pig.
 
Absolutely not. Each fish has different requirements, and need different foods. My carnivore tank does not get the same food as my snail tank, nor my pleco tank, nor my discus tank. Each tank has it's own food schedule, and types of foods.
 
My loaches get fed twice a day, they're on a bulking diet. The larger preds only 4-5 times a week. Other growouts get fed daily.
 
I wouldnt say I neglect any fish, but there was this one fish I was forced to adopt by my parents a few years ago, and I didn't like it, it was a bully. So at feeding time, I would always try to give the more 'desirable' pieces of food to the other fish. Didn't work, it ended up chasing the others away and just scoffed the lot.

Then there's my 'dither' silver dollars, once again forced to adopt, I must admit they do add life to the tank, but at feeding time, why cant they take a back seat?! As soon as my tongues go in the tank (as in feeding tonges - to get to bottom dwellers) they just crowd it and nab all the food off it.
 
I treat them all the same .Purchase price has nothing to do with it IMO.I keep fish I like,some are just more expensive to aquire.I do have my favourites but that doesn't mean I treat one with less respect or care than another.
 
My fish are all spoiled.They all have their favorite food and I pretty much cater to this regaurdless of price.
 
My cheaper fish get the more exspensive food just cause the expensive fish refuse to eat it. They will only eat pellets, frozen cubes and bugs where as the cheaper fish are fed sea food as well. Otherwise all fish would be fed the same, price means nothing.
 
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