How Much Do You Feed Your Fish?

[Spank]

It's back!!!

After a good 2-3 months of an algaeless tank I can see that it's wanting to takeover my tank again
I'm thinking that a possible cause to this may be me overfeeding my fish and increasing the phosphate in my tank!!

So here's my current stocking
2 X Festivum
2 X Blue Acara
2 X Fire Mouths
3 X Cockatoo Dwarves
2 X Apistogramma Hongsloi
6 X Congo Tetra
3 X Yoyo Loach
6 X Adolfoi Cories
5 X Otto's

My current feeding regime is 2 small meals/day, morning consisting of granules and around 15 cichlid pellets, and then in the evening a cube of frozen blood worm or daphnia, or some freeze dried brine shrimp. is this to much?
All the food is gone in under 5 minutes, the larger cichlids are messy eaters but the corries and loaches do a good job of cleaning up throughout the day!

Do other people on here with large numbers of fish and big tanks feed similar amounts or should I be feeding less??

Thanks
Hank

 

[Lion007]

I'm unsure on if thats correct - as ive not owned that amount of fish (Yet ) However twice a day seems a bit extreme. I'd personlly only ever feed mine once a day. But if its all eaten & none left - then i cant see a problem.
Have you tried skipping 1 day per week? Or even 1 day every 2 weeks if your worried. I do this - as then it gives my alga eater chance to rummage through the tank aswell

 

[Don Trinko]

Young growing fish(especialy chicklids) can be fed 3 or more times a day. Many people with young discus feed 4 to 6 times a day. The key is not to leave uneaten food lay in the tank. If they don't eat all that you feed them syphon it out after 5 or 10 minutes. Don T.

 

[vinylman]

Try going one day a week without feeding them at all. With those big/messy eaters, it'll give the filter a break, too.