I feed my fish 10-15 times a day

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Tropical fish only need to be feed a few times a week. Once a day is fine. 10 to 15 times a day is foolish,and will cause more harm than good,as already explained.
 
TheRealAndyCook;4556377; said:
When I purchased them a lot of them were too weak to swim near the power heads or follow floating pellets around the surface...now they all easily swim directly in front of the outlets and seem to play in the jets of water.
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I do not know where you purchased them, but they were probably under one or more of the following conditions: in a cramped tank, with many tankmates, eating poorer quality food, in sub-standard water, stressed from being shipped.

They have also grown since you purchased them, put on mass at least.

As far as replicating a natural habitat, that depends on the species, body of water, time of year, etc
 
I feed my growout tank of dats multiple times throughout the day mostly because its awesome to watch but my other tanks twice a day, once in the am and once after work...In my experience overfeeding just makes them lazy and slow and not as much fun to watch
 
i have no idea but i feed my cichlids 2-3 small to medium size meals a day because i figured that way they could eat more food in a day than if i fed 1 big meal, which i hoped meant more growth. but again i dont know anything about

kdrun76;4556215; said:
Warm blooded organisms need a more constant stream of metabolic energy. Cold blooded organisms do not. You are actually creating much more stress for them. To process and digest any food at all in the gustatory tract they have to ramp up production of digestive enzymes and other enzymes involved in catabolizing the food ingested. During catabolization, anabolizm just about stops. If meals were consumed as they are in nature, with large time lags between them, once digest and catoblism were complete, anabolism would restart and the entire metabolic process would stay properly balanced.

Constantly feeding them prevents this balance and will result in a rather extensive list of problems with in the metabolic pathways because of restrictions in anabolism.

Adult fish really don't need to be fed more than 4-5 times a week. Carnivores even less frequently.
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all that ^
 
Well none of them have pot bellies which I believe is characteristic of overfeeding goldfish and like i noted all are very good swimmers.

However, I haven't studied marine biology and know very little about there digestive system, so I'm hoping Karen would be able to point something out or direct me to some reading which might enlighten me.
 
i feed my breeding guppy tank 6-10 times a day, ranging from tropical flakes, crushed pellets, blood worms, krill, crushed snails, worms, minced fish, and prawns...they eat alot its a small amount but i do it to keep them full..that way i have tons of babies in the tank and no eating...
my tank is not over fed and has a nice clean up crew of snails just in case.(and 50% water changes weekly)
^_^ heres a shot if the tank

by feeding this much i can keep my fry in the adult tank..and i get probably 70-80% of each batch surviving
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Warm blooded animals digestion is a world different than cold blooded as said also with more food comes more waste in a closed enviorment I can imagine your water quality is at least 40ppm Nitrate....But as you stated in your first post you expected to be flamed so this leads me to believe you just want to troll
 
Darth Scohin;4556508; said:
Warm blooded animals digestion is a world different than cold blooded as said also with more food comes more waste in a closed enviorment I can imagine your water quality is at least 40ppm Nitrate....But as you stated in your first post you expected to be flamed so this leads me to believe you just want to troll
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No I've been on the internet for more then enough time to expect a fair amount of posts like "omg yur over feeding them, feed them 2 times a day for 2 minutes then scoop the rest of the uneaten food out :nilly: " thus the way I started my post the way I did...hoping id be able to cut to the chase which it seems I have.


As for my water quality, my rooms beside the bathroom, so I have no excuse not to clean the bottom of the tank daily so I don't think water quality should be an issue ;) also, the tank is beside me almost all day long, so i have no excuse for not noticing an issue if there was one
 
Vodka is also crystal clear. My water quality is not an issue, neither are my stock levels, if either were id be working on that instead of trying to optimize there feeding habits.

The issue I wanted to bring up was weather it was better for them to eat many times or not, and it appears there is some scientific reason behind only feeding once or twice a day but I've yet to find out the effect this would have on them.
 
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