After reading a few of the threads on here I'd like some advice on how often to feed my nes TSN. It's about 10" at the moment and is in with a real mixture of cichlids until the new tank for him and the aro is ready. Any suggestions??
How often should I feed new TSN?
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He's eating wafers, about 8-10 in one go, so think he may need something else! Will also eat the cichlid pellets too.
Most people would kill to have tsn that will eat pellets. If you add anything make it shrimp or krill cut to the size of his mouth.
Feeding twice per day is fine untill he's a foot or so. Any bigger and you only need to feed once a day. Once he has attained a size of 2ft+, you can quite easily skip some meals.
When my TSN was 10" I fed him feeders and pellets small pieces of meat left over from dinner. problem at the time was his tank mate was a much more aggressive eater and was outgrowing him. One day he started eating algae wafers which the RTC HATED and believe it or not he caught up to the RTC in size. My guy is about 17" - 18" now and He eats Massavore every night only about 5-6 pellets, 2x per week they get a dozen med gold fish feeders to share. also will eat anything I am eating - chicken - Turkey - pork. It's so hard with what to feed all my fish, and I always worry about overfeeding. I try to judge by what others feed and what a healthy fish should look like. when my guys were smaller they used to get bigger belly's, they just don't seem to eat like that any more. They don't act like their starving and look good.
my LFS received an adoption last year of a 2 foot RTC and the woman said she fed it lunch meat only, I heard on MFK that someone feeds their fish dog food. go figure.
my LFS received an adoption last year of a 2 foot RTC and the woman said she fed it lunch meat only, I heard on MFK that someone feeds their fish dog food. go figure.