feeding

[hartman57]

JUST ASKING.....in general how aften should fish be fed??? is it every other day or is that a myth????

[Keeper]

i feed mine everyday. It might depend on the type of fish though.

[William]

I feed mine every other day or two.

[Bearfan]

I feed mine once or twice per day...small variety meals rather than one type all at once.

[trenac]

I feed my fish small amounts twice daily, when I come home from work and again before I go to bed. My bottom feeders & algae eaters I feed once too twice a week.

[flipz]

Most people will say every day. Some people (like trenac) do it as much as twice a day. It really depends on the fish. Personally I only feed once every other day. It really depends on the fish.

-brent

[Menagerie]

I feed my larger fish every other day, but the smaller fish get fed everyday and the tank with the fry gets fed twice a day.

[TankGirl]

I do the same as Menagerie. It definitely does depend upon the fish. I think that because in the wild they do not eat every day that it does not hurt them to go hungry, though I don't think feeding once or twice a day is a problem, either. I definitely like my fry to eat twice a day.

[jaysono]

I feed mine twice a day at a pretty regular time schedule. 7am and again at 7pm. They seem to keep eating....just watch that they eat most of the ffod. Inevitably you will have a few flakes or pellets fall to the bottom.

To minimize this excess to the bottom, I place a very small amount in and wait until they are all done. Depending on their activity level and quickeness of chowing, I'll repeat until they slow down. Once they start ignoring food, I stop.

Generally, if flakes do fall to the bottom, they will eventually get those as well leaving very little debris in the long run. But twice a day seems to work pretty well for me.

[An t-iasg]

I feed my bettas once a day, in the morning, and skip one day a week (Sunday). I feed 4 betta pellets or 4 bloodworms at the morning feeding. I read once that you should consider a betta's stomach to be about the size of their eye. That's how I figured out the number of pellets. The directions on the container also say 3 or 4 pellets, depending on the size of the fish.

I started to give an evening feeding recently. The owner of the hatchery (where I got the bettas) said they were looking a little skinny. So now, the morning feeding stays the same, and the evening feeding is only a few days a week, Mon-Wed-Fri. I think this gives them a little more food, without overfeeding and worrying about too much food waste. At the evening feeding, they get 2 or 3 freeze-dried daphnia, or 4 Azoo betta pellets. These pellets are much smaller than the Hikari pellets they get at the morning feedings.

Hopefully, this is a balance between adequate feeding, and not creating too much waste.