Feeding fish until they bulge- hurting or helping?

[OzMonsterFish]

mate, your barras rock! very healthy looking fish

 

[dingoofus]

Cheers 8D

 

[haynchinook334]

SO......Is this not good for a Cichla Occel?
And "NO" they are not stuffed with feeders. Shrimp and silver sides is there diets.

 

[LowCel]

Lot's of good information / opinions in this thread. I'm really enjoying it.

I don't feel that I overfeed my fish, I just try to do multiple small meals a day. I do occasionally see a little bulge in the dovii's stomachs but nothing I would consider unhealthy.

 

[dingoofus]

@haynchinook334

Lol, the fish version of a beer gut.

 

[Power]

Like a few have said so far: Depends on the fish.

Big predators will more likely handle power-feeding better than fish that are habitually grazers in nature (i.e. discus etc.).

I don't mind feeding my young fish a lot so that they grow quickly. However, you only need to visit a public aquarium to see what happens when you overfeed adult fish with a fatty diet. Tail lobes get bent, and you'll see layers of fat on their head. Aquacultured fish are also susceptible to 'obesity' - I've cleaned a lot of aquacultured fish here (from 30-45cm / 12-18" in length) in Australia that had their entire gut enveloped in about 2.5cm/ 1 inch of fat.

Fish physiology is very different to mammalian, bird, or reptile physiology, and it varies between families of fish too. For one, fish use ammonia as their method of excreting waste resulting from a protein-based metabolism - not urea as mammals do, or uric crystals as birds and reptiles do.

Fish's tolerance to protein levels in their diet would also be completely dictated by what they are. Most people who keep African cichlids know that for the most part, Malawi cichlids in particular are omnivorous, and require a substantial part of their diet to be vegetable matter. Feed these things on a pure protein diet, and not only will they become unwell, but if they live, they accumulate a lot more fat (workmates witnessed a 20cm Aceii a local had been feeding barramundi pellets all its life).

Anyway back on topic, I'm not voting because the situation varies from species to species. I believe that YOUNG predators can be power-fed to a degree without too much detriment, but that care must be taken to ensure that your fish are compatible with this technique.

i voted overfeeding is detrimental before i read this from piscineidiot but now i feel i don't know much. however just in it's description "overfeeding" i feel can't be goodmuch the same as "underfeeding" i recommend "just right feeding" and if we can learn more about this by this thread it is a very good thing.

 

[dingoofus]

i voted overfeeding is detrimental before i read this from piscineidiot but now i feel i don't know much. however just in it's description "overfeeding" i feel can't be goodmuch the same as "underfeeding" i recommend "just right feeding" and if we can learn more about this by this thread it is a very good thing.

Yeh, that bloke does sound like he knows his **** 8).

 

[dingoofus]

Awwwwe, my word was bleeped out, oh well it was meant to mean he knows his stuff.

 

[Banjardini]

Its "detrimental" to my budget. lol

 

[philliptobin]

Beach Party Gone Wrong

Looks like a Lumpsucker, they are normally that way. Here are the pictures I took of one I encountered.