Do You Spoil Your Fish When It Comes To Feeding Time?

[tenxiong]

Sometimes I feel like I'm spoiling my fish with treats (frozen food, live food) and other times I feel like I'm feeding them too much.
I know people who tend to be more of the oddball type usually feed their fish with some kind of a special diet and there has been times when some people even cook or have some kind of special food preparation for their fish. Well thanks for Voting

Tenxiong

 

[WILDER]

Yes, and I love to spoil them, keeps them healthy if you don't over feed, variety not quantity.
Frozen foods veg, even try other things now and then.

 

[richchappy]

they eat some and then i think oh they must be soo hungry as they munch it down like there is no tomorrow so i slip a little bit more in, they do seem to eat it tho. I sometimes feed smaller amounts 4 or 5 times a day just so it is spread over the day lol.

Rich

 

[CFC]

My fish eat better than some people, they get seafood intended for human consumption every day. Whitebait, prawns, mussels, clams squid, crab meat and cockles are all a part of their weekly diet.

 

[DarkEntity]

Mine get 5 different frozen foods, flake, pellets, hikari wafers, cucumber/lettuce etc...they eat like kings lol

 

[JackoUK]

I'd have to say yes. I've started to feed them frozen food now too because it's such fun to watch them eat and i'm sure it must be fun for them to eat too. They now get 3 different types of flake food, Daphnia, Brine Shrimp, Bloodworm, Tubifix, Frozen food, Freeze dried food and tablets. I think I spend more on them now than I spend on myself.

Edit: Forgot to add they also get Spinach, Lettuce and Cucumber sometimes too.

 

[richchappy]

with freeze dried how do you feed it, do you break up the block or do you let them nibble at it

 

[willtang3000]

same cfc as my parents work at a restraunt they can get all the seafood i could ever need to feed my fish as I do not beleive that dried foods it that good for them even my pond fish get mussels,prawns and scallops

My fish eat better than some people, they get seafood intended for human consumption every day. Whitebait, prawns, mussels, clams squid, crab meat and cockles are all a part of their weekly diet.

 

[Lord Zogat]

I have just started with fish and feed them little bits until they no longer take interest. I also drop in an algae wafer as well as all the fish gather around and nibble, I put a smaller peice of one in the back corner so it drops into the cave that my clown pleco has claimed.

I also have some krill which I fed them once, they weren't extremely estatic about it.

I have a 10 gallon and a 20 gallon tank bridged. Almost all of the fish have entered the 20 gallon and are staying there. The 10 gallon hosts about 9 - 12 baby platy fry that appeared the day after I put the fish into the tanks.

I also take flake food and mash the heck out of it until its a powder, then dump it into my 10 gallon. Its floats in the natural currents and you can see the baby platy zip off the gravel to gobble it up. Its fun to watch, its too small to catch the notice of Daddy Midnight Platy who is the only fish who has swam back into his 10 gallon tank, the rest as I said are in the 20...

 

[jayjay]

I do not beleive that dried foods it that good

You mean the foods made after research into the fishes needs, based around the needs the fish need, including most things in one simple food?

Anyway I feed, 4 types of flake, 4 types of pellets, 2 types of algae wafers, some other tablet type foods, bloodworm, brine shrimp, shrimp, mysis shrimp, white mosquito larvae, daphina, cucumber, occasional prawns, snails, lots of other vegetables and other frozen foods depending on what I get.

 

[blue_soda025]

I feed my fish twice a day. Either flakes or pellets in the morning, and sinking pellets for the corys and then frozen bloodworms or brine shrimp in the evening.

 

[atmmachine816]

I feed my flake, frozen, wafers, and sometimes live food when I can get it, mine don't like freeze dried.

 

[highfire]

I love feeding time. The barbs are the greediest fish you are ever likely to meet (although no doubt someone here would challenge me on that!), and if my others aren't quick off the mark then everything is just about gone.
As for spoiling them - well, most days I give them the usual flake food, sinking pellets, wafers, etc. but you should see them go when they have their treats like bloodworm, daphnia, peas, sweetcorn, etc.... talk about a feeding frenzy! I treat them once, sometimes twice, a week so I wouldn't say I was spoiling them. However, some days I do have to check myself because it is so tempting to throw a bit more in because the poor things still look as though they are starving!

 

[Lynden]

With Triggers I don't have a choice.

They eat about ten times as much as all the other fish combined, and I have to make sure that the other fish get enough food.

-Lynden

 

[MHunt]

I keep thinking that i'm overfeeding, and try to be more sparing. But there's rarely any food left over that i can see!