Exodon feeding question

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Just added 21 exodon to one of my tanks. I have never seen such active schooling fish. I assume that I need to feed them more than other similarly sized fish because of their incredible non-stop movement. I intend to feed them 3-4 times a day. How much more should I be feeding them? 50%, 100% more than similarly sized tetra?
 
3 times a day is more than enough, the more you feed the more waste you're gonna tax on your filtration system. Also, don't be shock if they start to salvaging/killing each other because it's their nature behave (some folks called them Mini Pirahna for a reason) and they're species only tank setup.
 
Thanks. I currently have them in with a pleco, rope fish and delhezi poly all of which stay hidden for most of the day. No issues so far.
 
Bottom feeders or fishes has no scale on them are fine with Exodon (smaller fishes will get eaten by Exodon with exception Cory Cats, somehow my Exodon leave them alone for few years until I sold them due to moving out of State)
 
i have heard that dark scaled fish are fine too. I wonder if scale eating more likely if you underfeed the exodons?
 
I feed mine flakes, pellets and frozen bloodworms/cut up silversides 3x a day. They're really a species only tank. I've been successful in keeping them with catfish. I tried putting tiger barbs with them and the barbs got owned.
 
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UES96 said:
i have heard that dark scaled fish are fine too. I wonder if scale eating more likely if you underfeed the exodons?
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Overfeed, normal feed or underfeed...It doesn't matter to Exodon, scale salvaging is their nature behave, they were born to do that :P
 
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Oxymus said:
Overfeed, normal feed or underfeed...It doesn't matter to Exodon, scale salvaging is their nature behave, they were born to do that :P
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Yup. I'm not sure that you can curb this at all. I also saw a large tank at my LFS with about 20 baby piranhas and 20-30 exodons. Really cool setup and they had plenty of room to swim, was not crowded at all. I watched the tank for about 3 minutes and one exodon got singled out and eaten by the piranhas and the other exodons joined in. LFS guy walked by and said he feeds that tank 4 times a day and they still lose fish every day or so.
 
I would think the nutrition from scales is far lower from flakes/granules. If the exodon can get nutrition easily from my feedings I would think they would be less likely to attack each other and my other fish. I am, of course, being optimistic.
 
Make sure you do some proper water changes on that. I wish i could get my hands on exodons, every shop i have been to doesnt even have them on order forms
 
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