What Should I Be Feeding My Fish?

[This Old Spouse]

Take a look at my sig so you can see what I have in stock. I don't really see many posts on feeding rituals, and I've been feeding regular flakes, some veggie tabs and occasionally peas. I don't have a LFS closer than 2 hours away, but I'd like to know what I really should be feeding these guys, then I can order things online. I thought I was doing all right, but I'd like to hear some opinions from the masters out there.

Thanks.

 

[amy1994]

I don't really see many posts on feeding rituals, and I've been feeding regular flakes, some veggie tabs and occasionally peas. I don't have a LFS closer than 2 hours away, but I'd like to know what I really should be feeding these guys, then I can order things online.

You are definatly giving them a variety of foods
You could always try frozen or freeze dried foods, high in protein and they really like it. Mine took a while to get used to the freeze dried food but now they like it. Also there is Tetra Fresh Delica, if you want to give that a try, it's eg. bloodworm in jelly, comes in sachets, and they do quite like that aswell. For the pleco you could always put in some sort of veg, like cucumber, my pleco seems to like brocolli.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Don't everybody jump in here at once! <img src="http/www.fishforums.net/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif" /><br /><br />I'm also wondering about how MUCH to feed. The standard I see is to feed what they'll eat in anywhere from 1-3 minutes. But what I feed disappears in about 30 seconds and I have too many snails, a symptom of overfeeding. <br /><br />I don't doubt that what I'm doing is keeping my fish alive but I'm trying to make sure they're thriving, not just surviving. Any help will be appreciated. <img src="http/www.fishforums.net/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" />

Edit: Of course I got a reply just as I put this up! Thanks Amy!

 

[Tizer]

It takes 5 minutes for some pellets of food i use to actually break down in the water, so its a cr4p guide anyway

 

[amy1994]

They say that more fish die from over feeding than starvation.
Just try to look how big there bellies are, because sometimes fish are just greedy and do eat really quick.