What is your feeding routine like?

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I was just laughing at myself as I was feeding my fish tonight, I'll start:

For my 125 gallon:

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(4 clown loaches, 3 elephant nose's, 1 BGK, 1 fire eel)

I hand feed my fire eel defrosted frozen krill. First, I have to locate him in the tank... he's not that big so this can be a challenge.
Tonight, he was on the right side under a pvc pipe. Last night, it was the driftwood in the center of the tank. :screwy:

Then the EN's and BGK get a staple of frozen blood worms... the problem is the EN's are newly introduced and there is still some aggression going on, this is a work in progress and may result in 1 or more EN leaving the tank. If I put all the bloodworms in the center of the tank, the alpha EN will claim it, and chase off any other EN that comes close...
A trick I've learned with picky bottom feeders and frozen worms is that if you stick the cube of frozen food into the substrate (sand works great for this) it will defrost pretty quickly and stay down in the sand in a nice little pocket.
I stick two cubes in the center and one on the left of the tank.

For the loaches, they get sinking hikari food for now, either the carnivore or the normal bottom feeder tablets. However, they have a great time executing a bonzai attack on the alpha EN's bloodworms... they are about twice as big as he is and seem to think it's hilarious. If you have clowns, you'll probably know what I mean when I say I think I can see them chuckling. :grinno:

My 20g is much simpler, a sprinkle of flake and two bottom feeder tablets.


What about YOU?
I'm sure some of you cichlid guys will laugh at all this, as I've seen cichlids feed... throw some pellets in and stand back. :WHOA:
 
I feed my 2 17" silvers 400-450 crickets over a period of 6 days
 
I feed their staple pellets in the morning, in the afternoon they get a snack (brine shrimp, alge wafers, cichlid crisps, ect). At night they get more of their staple. Ort sometimes blood worms, daphnia, ect.
 
Wake up in morning before heading out to school.
  1. Throw three pellets into datnoid side of 180 gallon
  2. Throw three pellets into black arowana side of 180 gallon
  3. Throw spoonfull of NLS into endlicheri tank
  4. Throw in a piece of shrimp into datnoid side of tank, which will also feed the goldy pleco
Done for day.
 
the wolf gets

monday- feeder fish, normaly a small koi about the size of 4 inches. this being around noon. right before i leave to go out of town for work

tuesday-wednesday, i leave a feeder about 2-3 inches long in the tank for him

thrusday- 2-3 inch basic feeders
friday- basic feeder
saturday-basic feeder

sunday- gets a smaller basic feeder. but its a white not a gold fish, its his fav! he goes crazy over them, or i give him his fav of all time. another fish i cant remember its name, but its kinda weird to me, has to whisker like things that are under its body.

then the week starts over again.
 
mike1987;4468044; said:
the wolf gets

monday- feeder fish, normaly a small koi about the size of 4 inches. this being around noon. right before i leave to go out of town for work

tuesday-wednesday, i leave a feeder about 2-3 inches long in the tank for him

thrusday- 2-3 inch basic feeders
friday- basic feeder
saturday-basic feeder

sunday- gets a smaller basic feeder. but its a white not a gold fish, its his fav! he goes crazy over them, or i give him his fav of all time. another fish i cant remember its name, but its kinda weird to me, has to whisker like things that are under its body.

then the week starts over again.
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That is one expensive feeding routine :eek:
 
its about 7 bucks a week. since i get a nice. deal.

it also puts on a good show when feeding him the koi and the other big fish. its a and he tends to be more happy. lol swims around alot more. always looking at me all the time, just seems to be happy lol

i will have to take a video of him tearing down a decent size koi compared to his size.
 
My wolffish. Got into a fight with a goby that was bigger then him. Goby didn't make it. It was ment to be food for a gar that's 25 inches at a friends house, should have know it wouldn't make it though the night. The crazy part I saw it happen.

I went into the room to get some car parts when I look over at my wolf who is like looking at me like why did u drop this thing in here, next thing I know, the goby nips his fin, then it was game on, I just sat there in aw, as the wolf just started beating him. The wolf was angled down, and the goby was pinned, wolf just keep going and going and going until the guts where out and the tank had a red hue on that side, thenn he went back to his spot, all. Trance around like that's right I'm the boss. Lol. The goby was 14 inchs caught on a worm lol. Wolf is barley 7 if even 7. He's a bad dude.
 
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