How do you know when your over feeding your fish?

[tcarswell]

I read that over feeding is the #1 cause of fish death. I try to feed my fish so that absolutely everything gets eaten but its hard to tell when enough is enough My fish are usually a little fat but nothing grotesque. Any rule of thumb or advice ?

 

[Weylin]

Im not too sure too...

I've been feeding my baby jardini a lot..and its starting to develope DE.. So i've decided to cut down to once every 2 days...

 

[devder1]

there is no such thing as overfeeding, just undercleaning

 

[zennzzo]

there is no such thing as overfeeding, just undercleaning

wordup...

I feed multiple times per day and they eat everything they are going to in that session in about 2-3 minutes...best to leave them a bit hungry, rather than have alot of extra food that will need to be cleaned out...

 

[ProblEmZ]

Planaria? heh

 

[isa.alhadad]

Most fishes know when to stop eating.

 

[tcarswell]

Most fishes know when to stop eating.

I dont think my Jack dempsey or bichir have that concept figured out yet

And as noted before... Planaria

 

[CDickes1988]

Yeah my bichir will eat until it looks like he's about to explode...

 

[tcarswell]

Yeah my bichir will eat until it looks like he's about to explode...

Mine ate three whole silver sides yesterday and he's just a 7" poly. He looks like a damn sausage. Then this morning he ate my algae eater and was chowing on some sinking carnivore pellets with the cichlids

 

[cichlid2006]

i usually feed until i can see a little pot belly forming then i stop.