How Much To Feed Them

[Sweeden]

basically im at home Mon,Weds,Thurs,Fri and Sun but how much do i feed my tetras and when?

 

[Gilli]

Feed once a day every day you are there - it doesnt really matter when. Add a little at a time and when you see them start to loose interest stop.

 

[OldMan47]

I try to feed at the same time each day. It is a simple basic thing to do that I feed associated with something else in my daily routine. In my case, I feed around the time that I am preparing for bed but each of us has our own association with fish feeding time. It could be when you are preparing breakfast or during a leisurely lunch or anything else that is a routine part of your day. That way you are more likely to remember to do it each day. I must honestly disagree with people that intentionally avoid feeding on certain days of the week. I find that an appropriate feeding each day for adult fish and several times each day for very young fish leads to high survival rates for the fry and good health for the adults.

 

[Vidster]

I watched a feeding guide on youtube and it seems to be working perfectly.

It says to only feed your fish as much as they can consume in 30 seconds. After that you net anything left over. This obviously changes when it comes to algae flakes etc.
After 3 weeks i am now at the stage where i can judge exactly how much flake to add to satify the needs of my Neons (the only fish i have in the tank atm).
The guide also suggests to feed the fish first thing in the morning as they will be needing to burn it off during their most active time (daylight).

Someone tell me if i am doing something wrong

 

[waterdrop]

There's nothing particularly wrong with what you're saying there but that's because a wide range of things work, for instance, if OM47 finds that doing his daily feed in the evening works, I'm sure he's going from experiences that have made sense in a lot of ways.

Size of tank, number of fish and amount of plant cover make a difference too. For me, I'd find what you just wrote to be too extreme on the stingy side. I have plenty of plants that will happily consume the little excess food that makes it down to the substrate. My fish will also get pleasure at being rewarded a little in their all-day search around the tank, so I don't mind a little extra food, but not a lot. I put the potential time-period more at 2 or 3 minutes of eating, not 30 seconds, although I'm sure its often around 1 minute if I timed it. Just depends of if I'm relaxed or in a hurry. With tiny tanks you do need to be more stingy and careful, although good maintenance habits should really take care of all problems in this area.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[nurglespuss]

Hi there, not to musddy the issue, but its not even as complicated as all that...

I feed all my fish the same way. a small pinch of food, once a day (morning usually for the fish in work, evening for those at home), and no food on weekends.

Thats about as complciated as it needs to be! (unless you have difficult/complicated to feed fish).