How often do you feed your fish?

[Rocksor]

Day 1 - frozen silver sides, Day 3- freeze dried krill, Day 6 pellets (Northfin Tropical/NLS Algaemax), Day 10 becomes Day 1 to start rotation again. These are for adult predatory fish 12-14" long and over 2 years of age.

 

[tlindsey]

Feed small young fish everyday rotation of pellet and flake. Large fish every other day freeze dried krill, pellet or tilapia.

 

[duanes]

For most fish 1 meal per day, for 2 days, 3rd day off. But...it depends on the kind of fish.
For vegetarians like Cincilichthys, Etroplus, etc (other grazers) might need small meals throughout every day.
For piscavores like Parachromis, a substantial meal 1 day then 2 days off.

 

[DMD123]

How often do you feed your fish?
For me depends on the fish. All my juvenile fish are usually fed twice a day. These are all pellet type foods with an occasional treat of a frozen item like brine shrimp or bloodworms. Adult fish usually get just a once a day feeding and many times this includes one day off to purge their system out. My Adult bichir (20" endli, and 18" Ansorgii) I feed only once a week. The juvinile puffer fed once a day but raw type items.

What do you feed them?
Pretty much a pellet diet for all except my puffer who gets, clams, krill, worms and the bichir that get tilapia soaked in Boyds vitamins.

And lastly, what is your reasoning for these answers?
For me the fish that I seem to really see way overfed has to be adult bichir. My fish are wild caught and they way I feed them, they look lean and elongated like they look in pictures of wild caught fish. I could feed them nightly but then they would look like giant stuffed sausages, lol.

 

[JAYBIRD1011]

How often do you feed your fish?
For me depends on the fish. All my juvenile fish are usually fed twice a day. These are all pellet type foods with an occasional treat of a frozen item like brine shrimp or bloodworms. Adult fish usually get just a once a day feeding and many times this includes one day off to purge their system out. My Adult bichir (20" endli, and 18" Ansorgii) I feed only once a week. The juvinile puffer fed once a day but raw type items.

What do you feed them?
Pretty much a pellet diet for all except my puffer who gets, clams, krill, worms and the bichir that get tilapia soaked in Boyds vitamins.

And lastly, what is your reasoning for these answers?
For me the fish that I seem to really see way overfed has to be adult bichir. My fish are wild caught and they way I feed them, they look lean and elongated like they look in pictures of wild caught fish. I could feed them nightly but then they would look like giant stuffed sausages, lol.

As I was reading the first part of your reply about the bichirs, I was wondering about the once a week part. Then the last part explained it and made perfect sense! I've never kept bichirs but if I ever do, I'll remember that. LOL!

 

[JAYBIRD1011]

Great answers everyone! There's a lot of different methods to the madness. Very interesting replies. Thanks!

 

[FINWIN]

Once a day for everyone. I put a buffet of foods in the main tank and they'll graze until stuffed. I wait until early evening when they're hungry. By next morning the sand is scoured clean. Hikari, Shrimp and mealworms, freeze dried blackworms, crickets.

Bobo my choc gets once a day lightly.

In the QT tank I have two young HRPs so they get fed twice.

 

[Matteus]

Right now I am on a very time sensitive 1 feeding per day schedule that is very intricate as to make sure all the right fish get what I am targeting them with. The caveat is an auto feeder on my female ray pond that has 3 different rotations to power feed them to get them beefed up before they go into breeding mode.

I have tank 1- 3 male rays, 5 silver dollars, 5 bass and 2 bala sharks

tank 2 -2 female rays, 7 silver dollars, 4 id sharks

tank 3- 8 bass, 7 Tigrinis

so first I drop bug bites into tank 1-2 to distract the silver dollars and sharks.

then I quickly drop in hikari food sticks for the bass in 1-3

then I wait for the rays to get into the right places so everyone else doesn’t eat their sinking carnivore pellets on 1-2. And I drop these same pellets in 3 different openings for the tigs so the pellets hit each one of the fishes hiding spots.

this is a very temporary set up and it is like a ticking time bomb about to go off at any moment with how over stocked everything is. I do wc on all 3 often 2 times a week because of the high bio load

I am currently battling to get 2 other tanks set up but have been working too much to do anything outside of daily feedings and wc’s.

 

[Gourami Swami]

Usually once a day, sometimes I give my reef 2x per day because my tang always begs. Everybody eats new life spectrum, whether it's the pellets or flakes. Extra treats like frozen food or veggies here and there as I feel like it.

 

[JAYBIRD1011]

Right now I am on a very time sensitive 1 feeding per day schedule that is very intricate as to make sure all the right fish get what I am targeting them with. The caveat is an auto feeder on my female ray pond that has 3 different rotations to power feed them to get them beefed up before they go into breeding mode.

I have tank 1- 3 male rays, 5 silver dollars, 5 bass and 2 bala sharks

tank 2 -2 female rays, 7 silver dollars, 4 id sharks

tank 3- 8 bass, 7 Tigrinis

so first I drop bug bites into tank 1-2 to distract the silver dollars and sharks.

then I quickly drop in hikari food sticks for the bass in 1-3

then I wait for the rays to get into the right places so everyone else doesn’t eat their sinking carnivore pellets on 1-2. And I drop these same pellets in 3 different openings for the tigs so the pellets hit each one of the fishes hiding spots.

this is a very temporary set up and it is like a ticking time bomb about to go off at any moment with how over stocked everything is. I do wc on all 3 often 2 times a week because of the high bio load

I am currently battling to get 2 other tanks set up but have been working too much to do anything outside of daily feedings and wc’s.

Awesome! Thanks.