How Much And How Often?

[minxfishy]

They just dont seem that interested.

Tried them originally on the tetra doromin pellets, most of those got spate out and it was only one pellet at each feed, so I got paranoid they werent eating enough and so then ended up getting one every couple of hours. Seems to take them ages to 'eat' just one pellet?

So changed to the hikari gold pellets yesterday, medium sized, much smaller for them, they seemed to like them, still only one pellet at a time though, and now they are spitting those out too

They love prawn, bloodworms and Bilbo likes Mussel, but they cant have that every feed. Only given that once a day. Still not much of it either, well not compared to the other fish who are just gannets.

Shall I just stick with the pellets, as much as they can eat in 3 minutes, which frankly is only one pellet each and do this 3x a day or should I try something else. Also Bilbo takes his pellet and goes and hides under the bogwood to eat? Is this normal? Its like a 'dont watch me eat' phobia

Everyone says Oscars are greedy pigs, but mine dont seem to be. In fact most of it is all over the bloody gravel!!

 

[england]

hikari gold pellets good choice
they will probally take acouple of weeks to get used to the change,
I Feed mine hiraki<green packet>cheap scate iam
also i vary with bottom feeder pellets,frozen cichlid food,frozen sprats,feeder shrimp,frozen prawns,crabsticks,chopped mussells,squid,,,,
woodlice,spiders,chopped garden worms from my garden <deshelled frozen peas<helps with digestion
variety is the spice of life, also helps to have them on two different pellets,just incase suddenly you cannot lay your hands on one kind.....

As to how much,,i feed my every other day,,,,,sometimes i even go 2days without feeding, this helps so theyre not realiant on food and if you fancy a long weekend away its no problems,

 

[minxfishy]

Thanks nelly, so I should stop worrying in other words

I was thinking of getting some micro meal worms one day to see what they thought of those - just got to work out how to pick them up without actually touching them Yuck!

Maybe I should make them wait for meal times, 2x a day, if they dont eat, then they wait for the next meal.

 

[spesh]

Hmmm.. woodlice? There are ton's of them on my garden wall of a night... nice lil treat for tigh

 

[Dave Ehl]

hikari cichlid stcks work great, too. thor always had the same problem of spitting out pellets when he was smaller. but when i switched to the cichlid sticks that problem went away. you can also hand feed with those.

 

[Spishkey]

mine seem to spit food out but then suck it back in.........doesnt half make a mess.

the eat everything though. today as a treat they had turtle food - a mixture of dried bugs and fish and they loved it.
they had green beans the other day, the watch us while we eat and seem to beg so i threw some in. big mistake, they go looney now when we set the table for tea! they're worse than dogs i tell you!

i do have about 100 live fish fry to feed them but just cant bring myself to do it!

doh!

what will i do with over 100platy? they're getting blooming big!

they also get fruit/veg, frozen foods, brine shrimp cichlid pellets, pond sticks (these are fab, meant for koi and pond fish but contain the same ingriedients as cichlid sticks, yet are less than half the price!!)
blood worms, turtle food, whatever we find while gardening, flies, spiders, woodlice, worms, bugs etc etc

i feed them once a day, but on one or two days a week they dont get fed and have to catch their own flies that land on the tank!