Tank Feeding Habits

[pinkdolphin_113]

reet! i had been looking at the tank, something i haven't really had time for lately, and realised why i love fish so much.
all my fish have worked out how to easily get food when feeding them. my tank is like rush hour at feeding times so for the more delicate fish, it may be abit harder than others.
well i noticed that my white clouds don't particularly eat flakes that much so i try my hardest to get blood worms but my lfs has often sold out. they do however love blood worm pellets. but of course lifes hard and these pellets are like a quater of their size so they cant eat them. after watching, i noticed they wait until one of my 8/9 inch weather loach eats them and spits (or whatever) little bits out through their gills. the white clouds then swim really fast and eat the little bits before they get to the bottom. its amazing! lol well i found it amazing.
i have 2 clown loaches. one slightly bigger than the other. the biggest one rushes around the tank picking off flakes while the other sits with a blood worm pellet in it's mouth. still dont know which is the easiest method lol.
my betta hides in the plants away from the other fishes at feeding time. dont know why because i would have thought this would have been the most dominant fish. but flakes that stay on top always get caught on the plant leaves that touch or just go over the surface of the water. the betta then eats the flakes. energy consuming i guess, waiting for your food to come to you. lazy betta.
my corys tend to not come out for a while. not until the blood worm pellets have softened and its easier to eat them.

oh man, well i hope you've enjoyed my detailed essay here lol didn't know i write so much.
anyway, has anyone else noticed this kinda behaviour in their tanks?

x

 

[babybell911]

Well my neons whizz around like they may never see food again, all the khulis come out for the wafers but the 2 black ones dont like to come all the way out so they can make a quick exit where as the panda doesn't really care! The Gourami sits in his corner sucking the food offthe top when it gets round to him and the cory's just wonder round the bottom. Both my synos chase the wafers round cept my featherfin can swallow them whole now so everyone else needs toget in there while they can! xx

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

haha! do gourami's do better when they're on there own or have a friend or two? coz i have one that seems quite energetic. he wizzes round like your neons seem to do lol just wondering if he could do with some company.
what synos do you have? i fancy one but there's too much choice!

 

[babybell911]

I have a featherfin he's bout 7 inches now and one that looks like a humbug he's bout 2-3 inches. My gourami had a friend and beat the living daylights outer them plus I dont have room for two girls for him

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

oh dear. i think ill leave it then

 

[babybell911]

no its ok its good your looking out for fishes welfare! I just think he's unsociable

 

[Majjie]

All three of my gouramis sit in a corner sucking at the surface at feeding time - waiting for the food to come their way - they get quite confused when I feed them live food once a week - because there's nothing to suck at! Oh and one male gourami is fine on his own.

The most active tank I have has tiger barbs and a mixture of danios in it. Feeding time is a bit of a frenzy in there. They're busy trying to eat everything before it sinks at all - and I'm busy trying to make sure some food sinks down to the bottom for the chain loaches.

One of my female platys has the same strategy as your betta - she lurks about in the floating weed picking off the bits that get trapped. The first time she did it, I thought she was missing when I did the head count.

 

[screamingdonkey]

One of my green tiger barbs ALWAYS goes for my forearm & starts nibbling it whenever I've got my arm in the tank (e.g. adding new plants etc). Not painful but just dammmmn irritating...

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

haha when i had tiger barbs at my parents house (moved out and the massive tank had to stay there because my flat hasn't got room for ANYTHING that big lol). there was like 30 tigers in there and i thought it was relaxing when they nipped my arm or is that just plain wierd? i dont know but i always touch my biggest weather loaches barbs so she starts sucking the end of my finger for a few seconds. it feels nice oh man im proper wierd

 

[my fat fish]

yes you are nowt wrong with weird im weird to lol i hold my hand in the tank whilst my BKF sits ther on my finger tips