How often do you feed your fish?

[JAYBIRD1011]

How often do you feed your fish?
What do you feed them?
And lastly, what is your reasoning for these answers?
This is something that has been on my mind lately.
I'll start:
I feed every other day. NLS and Hikari Cichlid Gold are my go to brands, and I alternate every other feeding. Once a week on a no feeding day, I treat them with brine shrimp or blood worms.
My frontosa are not babies anymore and therefore I don't think they need daily feedings anymore. Also it helps keep the water quality better.
So, what's your story?

 

[Rtc/tsn]

How often do you feed your fish?
What do you feed them?
And lastly, what is your reasoning for these answers?
This is something that has been on my mind lately.
I'll start:
I feed every other day. NLS and Hikari Cichlid Gold are my go to brands, and I alternate every other feeding. Once a week on a no feeding day, I treat them with brine shrimp or blood worms.
My frontosa are not babies anymore and therefore I don't think they need daily feedings anymore. Also it helps keep the water quality better.
So, what's your story?

I feed my flowerhorn 2 times a day and every week change between hikari cichlid gold and hikari excel. Every feeding time ( once in the morning before I leave for work and once before I go to bed) I feed either 12 pellets of hikari cichlid gold or 20 pellets of hikari excel depending on which feeding week it is. I soon plan on starting to feed 1 time a day with 15-20 pellets of Hikari cichlid gold and then eventually once every other day.

 

[FJB]

I used to feed my adult fish 6 days a week, at about 8:00 pm. Since about eight months ago I have changed to 4 days per week at same time. However, in addition, every weekday in the morning, I hang pieces of nori seaweed from clips, which are consumed very very quickly. When I have fry they are fed 7 days per week.
All of my fish get a rotation of various foods, including mixes. The rotating items include spirulina flake, worm flake, seven different pellets (all Ken’s), frozen (mysids, brine shrimp, bloodworm), garbanzos, sunflower seeds (for silver dollars), nori, mealworms.
All fish seem to be thriving and I like much better the 4 day feeding regime. The fish seem healthier but not noticeably skinnier. Aquaria stay cleaner and I see less mts snails. I change 60-70% water every week in my 4 tanks (soon to be 6). Cheers!

 

[The Masked Shadow]

I feed my bichir a mixture of cichlid gold and raw fish or shrimp every other day, and fasting him an extra day once a week.

I feed my lone Congo tetra in their Commercial fish flakes, and occasionally Brine Shrimp or Bloodworms. 2 times daily

I feed my community tank commercial fish flakes, algae wafers, and the occasional mini cichlid gold drops for the corys as a treat. Algae wafers are for them and the Amano Shrimp. 2 times daily for flakes and daily for corys and shrimp

I feed my outside 55g Gymnogeophagus and dithers Mini Cichlid Gold pellets (which they pick at on the ground), flakes (which they love), and algae wafers because my snails are weird and they keep eating the gynos food. Daily, because they won't eat twice a day with the amount of food I give them. If I didn't give them that much food, then it would be a show of who is top dog, and the bottom of the pecking order fish would not eat. I usually feed them in the afternoon and watch them whlle I do my homework. They are super fun to watch. If I try feeding them twice a day, the fat platy in their will eat all the food, and the other fish won't care.

I feed my 2 patio ponds flakes daily as well.

 

[Ruturaj]

I feed my my fish 3 times a day. I keep total food I feed in check to not cause overfeeding. I just love to see them eat.

I feed mix of northfin krill and NLS algaemax with few drops of vitachem. These two brands don't use any fillers and make pretty quality food. I trust both foods to have enough vitamins but choose vitachem as an extra precaution as food looses nutrients over time.

I feed frozen food once a while. I don't think it's necessary at all though.

 

[Krismo962]

I feed my bichirs 1x every day(anchovies,hikari carnivore pellets ,cichlid pellets,shrimp,tilapia,scad,squid and convict cichlids) and I fast them for 2 days a week (water change day)
I feed my snakeheads a 1-3 times a week (insects,cichlid pellets and tilapia/shrimp)
I feed my cichlids twice a day ( hikari cichlid pellets)

 

[FahakaPapa]

Ha! If I only had a schedule lol. I I usually feed my Fahaka every second or third day unless someone is over then he'll get an extra snack, cause everyone always wants to watch him eat. His staple is shrimp, but he also gets snails (ramhorns) and I've just placed an order for clams on the half shell to give him even more variety. He gets the occasional earthworm too, but I like to keep it to food with a shell to keep his beak/teeth in check.

 

[Hendre]

My fish get back home get fed every second day. Some brine shrimp aquaculture pellets for the bichir, and flakes/tabs for swordtails, kuhlis, and shrimp. Small fish should probably get fed more often, my white clouds never got too fat when I had them. My bichir on the other hand is slowly filling out.

 

[DrownedFishonFire]

Depending on species of fish i feed my bread and butter stocklist everyday and my fire eel/L24 everyday too due to them being hangry about not being fed. I drop in pellets for the cats every other day now due to them getting little bit too round

 

[krichardson]

My stable of adult fish gets fed once a day and they usually fast on the weekends.I give them a rotation of Hikari, and Northfin floating and sinking pellets.
I also have a young marbled goby that gets tilapia strips and earthworns about every other day since it ignores the pellets.