Massivore Delite

[the big kahuna]

I've been using Massivore for years and definitely not overfeeding. Feed my bass and pikes 3x a week. It's usually a frenzy every feeding. I feed very little at a time until I see the first pellet or 2 hit the bottom of the tank. You usually can't see the pellets hit the water before it's eaten, so a pellet hiring the bottom is my cue that they've had enough.

Kinda getting tired of the mess that it makes after every feeding. Tiled tank with powerful pump and diy filtration water conditions are great and crystal clear. Only issue is tank looks like crap afterwards. I usually do a water change the day after every feeding. Anyone else have this issue or have any suggestions? Thinking about feeding fresh shrimp instead

 

[cichlidfish]

Mussels, tilapia fillet, and shrimp.

 

[krichardson]

Roughly how many pellets are you tossing in there each feeding?
I feed my fish every day but I don't drop a lot of pellets in and maybe that is why I don't notice much of a mess afterwards.Each of my cichla probably recieve about four or five to itself.Massavore is not cheap and I like to stretch out each bag so therefore I am not very liberal with my feedings of it lol.
However,I have noticed residual mess from other types of pellets that I give to my red hooks.I don't like to see it settle on the tank bottom.

 

[the big kahuna]

My larger bass (about 16-18") can eat 8-10 pellets each at a time. So a rough guesstimate would be 40-50 pellets per feeding but again they're devouring them as soon as it hits the water. I think the issue is they're hitting them so hard it breaks apart OR pellet pieces are coming out the gills.

 

[krichardson]

Yeah,with that many pellets crunching around in their mouths there probably is a good bit of crumbs coming through the gills.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Cichla and cichlids in general appear often to be messy eaters. Oscars are infamous for it. A lot of catfish and cyprinids would be happy to feed on massivore leftovers. It appears many keepers go this route.

So would non-fish animals - crustaceans, snails, etc.

 

[tlindsey]

Cichla and cichlids in general appear often to be messy eaters. Oscars are infamous for it. A lot of catfish and cyprinids would be happy to feed on massivore leftovers. It appears many keepers go this route.

So would non-fish animals - crustaceans, snails, etc.

Yes I added 2 raphael catfish to eat up leftovers my greedy electric blue acara left.

 

[SandNukka15]

I kinda had the same issue ....also the issue of a lot of poop from pellets as well.....now im only feeding a small amount of pellets as a treat but sticking to variety of frozen as my main staple

 

[krichardson]

I kinda had the same issue ....also the issue of a lot of poop from pellets as well.....now im only feeding a small amount of pellets as a treat but sticking to variety of frozen as my main staple

This is a good idea.....although you feed them seafood the fish still recieve optimum nutrition from the pellets.

 

[flukekiller]

I haven't had thus problem with carnivore yet, but have with other pellets in the past.. if space allows I would go with what was said above and try to get some sort of clean up crew.