I'll rain on the parade. I have been cutting back a bit. I used to feed daily, but I'm now at 4 times a week for adults (daily for young fry). I was a bit concerned by the one dietary source problem. The insect eaters love moving food, and seem to think bbs are the best. Even my Epiplatys huberi have learned to eat small nauplii, which has been a battle as they focus on larger bugs. But more and more I'm trying to add other live foods - wingless fruit flies, more mosquito larvae and grindal worms. We're getting a new fridge this Fall and I've got dibs on the old beaten up one that's heading to the garage, I'll be making frozen food more, and culturing worms in the cooler conditions. At this time of year, the coolness loving worms are at risk.
The old "the more you learn the less you know you know" syndrome is hitting here. Are all species of artemia equally good? What's lost in the different grades and hatch rates? How much does timing when to feed really matter? What do different live foods offer?
From breeding fish, I'm confident all the gross little live foods I use are better than prepared foods, And since the best prepared foods for my insect eaters seem to be soldier fly larvae based, I'll try to make soldier fly larvae based frozen foods to cover the period when mosquito larvae are freezing in the ice.
Again, I have the luxury of fish not in my house, and that means live food cultures which smell when left too long or improperly set up, and which sometimes escape are way easier for me. They won't cause divorces here.
We keep a lot of fish whose real diet in nature is ants and spiders. I'm not going there.
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