feeding regime...

[silvershark]

ok fist thing about the food thing is my wife had to take care of the fish for a couple of days, during which she fed them bloodworm basically untill they stopped eating it. she said that she didn't let any sink to the bottom and that they just kept on eating. how big a problem can this cause, if any?

secondly, i just read in another post that you should only give freeze dried food twice per week. is this true and if so how come? my bala shark wont ever eat flakes and niether does my betta.

Someone put my mind at rest please!!

 

[BettaMomma]

Do they look fat and bulging? If not, then you've got no worries!
They'd most likely just get constipated but if they look okay, then they should be just fine.

I feed my bettas pellets every single day, and once in a while (like 2 times a week) I toss in some daphnia, frozen blood worms, brine shrimp (which they don't really like but I bought the damn jar of it so they're going to get it whether they like it or not!) OR freeze dried blood worms. Then about every 3rd day or so they all get peas. (This is a little more often than most ppl do but I have to fix peas EVERY single day for my little Liza because she refuses to eat ANYTHING but frozen blood worms so to balance out the constipation that would cause by JUST eating those, she gets peas. I'm still working on training her to eat other things, but hey...

Oh, and you might want to pick up a bag of frozen peas to have on hand. Just toss a few of them in a small bowl in some water in the microwave and when they're cooked, take them out, shell them, chop one or two of them up and toss them into your tank. That will help the little guys out if they did eat way too much of the worms!

 

[simonbrown403]

My discus have been fead 3 times in 1 night, 3 frozen food cubes by me the same by my wife and then my step son put the same again in arrrr! i vac all wast up and didnt feed them again for a day or so, they where fine.

To much dried foods to often can carse consupation and digestion problens.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

The only reason why i advised you don't feed foods like freezedried daphinia and bloodworm too often etc is because to much or to often these foods can lead to constipation in fish and don't offer all the nutrition fish need; on the other hand there are fish that only eat meaty foods just as there are fish like various plecs that only eat vegetable based foods etc.
Then again your wife does seem to have over done the feeding a bit...I would feed your fish some peas as mentioned or algae wafers/tablets to help counter-act the huge amount meaty foods they have consumed otherwise your fish may suffer from some bad constipation...

 

[silvershark]

The only reason why i advised you don't feed foods like freezedried daphinia and bloodworm too often etc is because to much or to often these foods can lead to constipation in fish and don't offer all the nutrition fish need; on the other hand there are fish that only eat meaty foods just as there are fish like various plecs that only eat vegetable based foods etc.
Then again your wife does seem to have over done the feeding a bit...I would feed your fish some peas as mentioned or algae wafers/tablets to help counter-act the huge amount meaty foods they have consumed otherwise your fish may suffer from some bad constipation...

well thanks for the advice i've not let them eat at all today so' they should go for what ever they get given, i'll go for the peas now as we got some in the freezer. thanks again, its really appriciated

as for my wife, well i shoulda known she couldn't follow simple intructions and "knew better than me"!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Thats ok, glad to help feed them some peas or algae wafers/tablets tommorrow instead of flakes or whatever and continue feeding them vegetable based foods for the following week- start feeding them flakes after a day or 2 but cut down on the amount you would usually feed them, gradually increasing the amount over the next week until it is back to the normal amount you would feed them.