feeding?

[Rodge]

How much do you feed your fish and how often?

The reason i am asking this is because so far i have had three answers all conflicting each other. (this may be rather long so bare with me)

It came around because i got Ich in my tank that came about shortly after introducing a clown loach that looks like it had a internal bacteria problem. We got in touch with the shop and they said bring some water for testing.

Now i had done that tetra stick test every other day and the results for Nitrite were always at 0 then after adding a dose of Metafix and Primafix for the internal bacteria and a nipped fin i had noticed the nitrite had on the tetra strip went to 1.

When they tested the water the nitrite was extremely high leading me to believe the tetra testing strips are crap but however the guy asked me how much i feed the fish and how often.

I took a pinch of food and showed him, He then said it was too much and took about 90% of the food away and said that was how much i was overfeeding and was why the nitrite was too high, even though ammonia was at 0 and the fish quickly eat all the food.

After looking into it the three ways to feed i found are as follows.

- 2 flakes per fish per day,
- Enough for all the fish to completely consume within 2 min,
- about 5 flakes (say roughly 1cm round) for the follow fish
5 guppies
5 platties
3 clown loach (soon to be moved)
2 angel
1 red clawed crab
1 betta

SO my question is as above, How much do you feed and how often?

Mine was, 1 pinch a day (works out about 1 flake per fish), an algae tablet every other day and frozen bloodworm or daphnia every week or so instead of the flakes.
there is very rarely any left over food in the tank.

 

[Angry_Platy]

My fish get fed once a day with one "fast" day a week. 30gal, 10gal and 6gal fish get livebearer mix (small pinch, I feel like I am starving them) the 75gal fish get cichlid mix (lower protein). Once a week the fish get bloodworms or brine shrimp. Every second day the 75 and 30gal get cucumber and in between those days they get algae tabs (for catfish)....

My fry get fed ALL the time, like everytime I walk past the tank almost Fry technically empty their stomachs every 20 minutes so can be fed as often at such a small size

 

[Tropjunky]

Well it's up to you really but remember that fish can go about 1 week without food. I feed mine every 2-3 days about a small pinch of flake food and sometimes live or frozen blood worms and I also feed every week or so some algee pelets.

As long as u feen at least once a week and about 1 flake per trop fish or 2 flakes per goldfish then ur fine. u should be feeding about 2 pinches of food or one little block of frozen the web site in my sig should help also, but it's up 2 u

 

[Rodge]

So it looks like i was feeding them a little too much then, We all live and learn and at least this is a leason that i learnt befor killing my entire tank.

Tropjunky. Nice site you have there mate with a lot of info for the beginners into fish keeping.