Non feeding day. What a bummer!!

[esoxlucius]

I think we're all familiar with this sight (see blurry photo below, impossible to get a clear picture in the frenzy). You go to your tank first thing in a morning and all your fish are going berserk at the feeding end of the tank in eager anticipation of breakfast.

You're just about to prepare a lavish nutritional banquet for them, you can almost see your fish salivating, they're going absolutely crazy and then........you realise it's a non feeding day!!!

Don't you just feel like the cruellest fish keeper that's ever lived, lol. I keep telling them it's for their own good but I don't think they've got the message yet!

 

[tlindsey]

I think we're all familiar with this sight (see blurry photo below, impossible to get a clear picture in the frenzy). You go to your tank first thing in a morning and all your fish are going berserk at the feeding end of the tank in eager anticipation of breakfast.

You're just about to prepare a lavish nutritional banquet for them, you can almost see your fish salivating, they're going absolutely crazy and then........you realise it's a non feeding day!!!

Don't you just feel like the cruellest fish keeper that's ever lived, lol. I keep telling them it's for their own good but I don't think they've got the message yet!

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I felt that way also until I learned here that it's healthier for the fish.

 

[duanes]

Although I am a big proponent of non-feeding days for specific fish, like predators (and especially piscavors).
That is because I keep omnivorous cichlids that don't always get daily meals.
Some other fish, like grazers or plankton eaters, I would/have treated differently.
These fish constantly pick small meals throughout the day, and catering to them differently may be required.
Kind of like the difference between a humming bird and an osprey, where the hummingbird needs constant small meals every few minutes, and the osprey maybe only one a day or every few days.

Even with some vegetarian or detritus cichlid grazers, I set up tanks so there is a constant crop of algae, or leaf litter is supplied for continuous grazing, because their digestive systems have evolved to require that kind of constant ow nutrient movement.

 

[..puSkar..]

I think we're all familiar with this sight (see blurry photo below, impossible to get a clear picture in the frenzy). You go to your tank first thing in a morning and all your fish are going berserk at the feeding end of the tank in eager anticipation of breakfast.

You're just about to prepare a lavish nutritional banquet for them, you can almost see your fish salivating, they're going absolutely crazy and then........you realise it's a non feeding day!!!

Don't you just feel like the cruellest fish keeper that's ever lived, lol. I keep telling them it's for their own good but I don't think they've got the message yet!

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Yup total agreement on that point.
Can we have a full tank shot, it looks like an interesting mix.

 

[esoxlucius]

Can we have a full tank shot, it looks like an interesting mix.

It's a 180 com tank. Clowns, beardless barbs, rainbows, dennison's, siamese algae eaters, odessas, a kissing gourami and a chocolate cichlid. It's nice and calm at the minute, lol.

 

[robmcd]

I was out of town for 4 days, so I gave in and fed them

 

[..puSkar..]

It's a 180 com tank. Clowns, beardless barbs, rainbows, dennison's, siamese algae eaters, odessas, a kissing gourami and a chocolate cichlid. It's nice and calm at the minute, lol.

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I've seen some of your tank stockings in previous threads.
The current stock seems like you're taking rest from the big boys.

 

[esoxlucius]

I've seen some of your tank stockings in previous threads.
The current stock seems like you're taking rest from the big boys.

What do you mean, "taking a rest from the big boys?" Are you referring to this motley bunch in my other tank, lol.

 

[Jexnell]

I hate no feed days, his begging proceeds to frantic stage

 

[esoxlucius]

Sorry Jexnell , the temptation was too overwhelming, lol.........