My FH is about 5" long currently. His diet is alternated between NLS 6mm thera pellets and chingmix colormax and headbooster pellets. How many pellets should I be feeding at a time? I feed 3 pellets 3x a day usually but I feel like it's not enough, how many do you guys feed?
How many pellets are to much?
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Three pellets? R U kidding?.... feed them just as much he can eat in 5 minutes then retire the rest with a net, try feeding him some 20 pellets, keep an eye and if he finishes within those 5 min then offer him another 10, take out the remaining uneaten pellets after 15 min.
Cheers.
Cheers.
In this house 3 pellets is starving a fish. While more frequent smaller portions are ideal with most cichlids it doesnt have to be that small. Feed enough so its not 3 pellets but not to the point there are left overs or bellies about to burst. They will always beg but dont fall for it. Also vary the diet.
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Chips are fatty nasty food, cant compare chips to pellets, maybe bloodworms.
9 pellets per day is hardly starving as pellets have so many nutrients and beneficial varied ingredients.
I agree tho, a little more is better depending on size of fish.
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Thank you all for the info, I truely had no idea luckily it has only been like this for a week
. I will start feeding him more I'm sure he'll love it. It usually works out so he gets 3 days of NLS pellets, and two days of each chingmix variety and then the occasional bloodworm treat, not sure what else he would eat so any info is appreciated. I used to feed my carpintis worms and a few other things but I'm not sure if they are appreciated by flowerhorns to!Just feed as much as he would eat within a 5 minute duration. Preferably 3 times a day. That's the minimum feeding requirement for a flowerhorn that size. As he crosses the 8 inch mark cut down the feeding to twice daily.
Try shrimp, beefheart too.
Feeder fish quarantined for 2 weeks make good treat.
Although many disagree, I feed mine with chicken liver thrice a week as a treat and he loves it. Works wonders for my baby.
Be sure to change his water more, because they Crap a lot.
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Try shrimp, beefheart too.
Feeder fish quarantined for 2 weeks make good treat.
Although many disagree, I feed mine with chicken liver thrice a week as a treat and he loves it. Works wonders for my baby.
Be sure to change his water more, because they Crap a lot.
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Thanks, I vacuum the tank every day changing out about 10% water and getting rid of the poop on the bottom and I do 50% water changes once a week as well. He seems happy with his updated food.
Wow, wish I had seen this earlier, you got some really piss poor advice from some members here.
feed for 5 minutes - 3 times a day - feed beefheart, chicken liver, etc.
Are you people freaking high?
First off the OP's flowerhorn is only 5". Secondly he is feeding it a mix of pellets that are VERY high octane fuel, and are VERY large in size for this fish. (6mm) Both the 6mm NLS TherA and ChingMix pellets are very nutrient dense with high protein & fat in both feeds. You do NOT want to overfeed these types of foods to any fish, and most certainly not a flowerhorn whose genetics are based on species classified as omnivores, not carnivores.
When feeding a juvenile fish, any juvenile fish, gauge the amount that you feed on the approx size of their stomach - don't just allow it to gorge itself for 5 minutes straight!
As an example, for a 5" FH 9 of the 6mm NLS pellets would more than fill its stomach, I would simply change it to feeding 4-5 pellets twice a day. Which is plenty for a fish this size!
The unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of people in this hobby, overfeed their fish. Add to that a diet that greatly exceeds a fishes immediate energy requirements, and the result is typically fatty deposition of the liver. The problem with fatty deposition of the liver is you can't see it with the naked eye, it can build up very quickly, and if not corrected can shave years off of the life of an otherwise healthy specimen.
And people wonder why their FH's don't live very long, well doh!
And just to show what kind of growth one can get by feeding NLS (exclusively), in a controlled manner (not 5 minute gorge-fests!), check out the growth on my KK over a 5 month period.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?370120-Update-on-my-KK
HTH
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RD is reminding you that your diet isnt to fatten up and sell a fish, but for long term health and growth.
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