I have a biocube 29 and I was wondering how many cubes of frozen food should i drop in when I feed every 2-3 days (I like mixing it up and have brine shrimp, blood worms, fish eggs, mysis, daphnia, krill, and mega marine)
How much do you feed your fish?
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Ok, I have an albino red tail shark, 3 golddojo loaches, a betta, 4 danios, 3 red eye tetras, 2 kuhli loaches, 2albini cherry barbs, a gold nugget pleco, and a green phantom pleco, nitrates are at about 140 or so, no issues with fish (aside form betta laying on plants but I hear that’s normal for bettas) cubes are .1oz, it just seems like so little when I feed them
hello; Many who measure nitrates like to keep the number no higher than 40. While there may be other variables causing high nitrates the first thing that comes to mind is the amount of food put into the tank. After that is a system issue where the filter can become what is called a "nitrate factory". Over stocking is also a cause of high nitrates but looking at your stocking list this would depend on the size of some of the individual fish.
Regardless of the cause, it is regular WC (water change) as a first practice. After WC there are a few other practices that can help.
Hello; I see two possible issues with the stocking. First the betta is likely vulnerable to have fins shredded by the danios or the tetras. Bettas are slow swimmers and other fish sometimes do like to nip at the flowing fins.
The plecos may get too large for a 29 gallon. Not familiar with the size of a gold nugget or green phantom but have seen other plecos well over 14 inches.
The green phantom pleco gets 8 inches the gold nugget gets about 6 inches, nitrates become an issue at around 400 or so, and the betta is a female with shorter fins so I don't think that's really much of an issue and I have nowhere to really put the betta if that is the issue.
Bettas do well with most tetras, my friends betta kicked a Chinese algae eater out of a cave it wanted in his community tank.
I would recommend upgrading to a bigger tank
Everything is doing perfectly fine so I don't see why I would need to upgrade to a larger tank, plus my parents would not let me and my fish could not be with axolotls or dwarf puffers. I have a lot of plants and some drift wood and caves, around with a sunken ship and airstone tank (even though my albino red tail shark has claimed that)
It's impossible to properly guess how much to feed without knowing the size and count of the fish.
Nitrate levels and tank size are simply metrics that indicate that if more is fed, then the tank is likely to suffer even worse water conditions. It still doesn't tell you how much to feed.
If everything is perfectly fine, (the tank is the right size, nitrates are safe up to 400 ppm), then I'm lost.
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Ok, my betta is about 2-3 inches, my gold dojo loaches are 4 inches, my albino red tail shark is 4 inches, my gold nugget pleco is 4 inches, my green phantom pleco is about 5 inches, my tetras are 2 inches, my danios are 1 inch and my barbs are 1 inch, my kuhli loaches are 3 inches, I'll start doing more frequent water changes, when I feed them it just seems like not a lot of food.