Feeding Tips

[Hamsnacks]

This question is for the owners with large tanks of 80+ fish.
Or if you have a tank with upper, mid and bottom dweller fish?
Or slow moving fish with faster moving fish?

What tips or tricks have you found work?
What are your techniques to ensure every fish eats?

Thanks!

 

[mikey11]

i have many tanks with over 100 fish.....never worry about every fish eating, thats just crazy,

if they are hungry enough they will get the food,

tropical fish can easily go a week or more without being fed, they will find leftover scraps on the bottom, or peck at algae, quit worrying so much

 

[seangee]

i have many tanks with over 100 fish.....never worry about every fish eating, thats just crazy,

if they are hungry enough they will get the food,

tropical fish can easily go a week or more without being fed, they will find leftover scraps on the bottom, or peck at algae, quit worrying so much

Agreed - they'll figure it out for themselves.

 

[HakimChef]

The easiest way to feed three levels of fish in one sitting, if you don't want them to forage is to purchase different types of food. Flakes for the top and middle, pellets for the bottom and middle. For giving out an amount of food, I feed the top fish for several minutes first making sure they eat everything before I put more, and for the pellets, I count the number of bottom dwellers and depending on size give them .5 to 2 pellets.