Fish Kid

Hello. I dont know how too feed my fish lol i just put in like 3 flakes for every fish i got. i got 2 Iridescent Shark 1 Rainbow Shark 1 Odessa Barb 1 Rosy Barb 1 Green Tiger Barb. the food i got is tropical fish flakes & tropical fish floating mini pellets. i also got this shrimp pellet stuff tat i read about n it says it makes babys . can somebody please tell me how to feed them properly should i mix the food or feed them something differnt everyday and how much of it. THX ALOT if u answer

COBettaCouple

how big is your tank and do you have a testing kit yet? you have some fish that are going to get decent size when they're adults and some fish that are happier with buddies.

are those baby brine shrimp eggs that you have? feeding your fish a small pinch of flakes or pellets 2x a day should be ok and you'll want to see how much they eat so you can make that pinch the right amount to not have a lot leftover.

susitna-flower

The rule of thumb is that a fishes stomach is no bigger than their eye, so this will help a bit. Never feed more at one time than the fish can clean up in 2 or 3 minutes. It is better to let them go a little hungry, than to over feed, and have food turning the water foul.

I feed three times a day, and feed two times with flakes or some other pellet food, for my algae eaters like plecos I always put out some algae wafers right before lights out, as well as some frozen blood worms or brine shrimp. This gives my fish that only come out at night like my Raphael cat to have their fill.......

You will have to determine by research just what each of the fish you have needs. Google the fish and it will tell if they are a carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore. So the carnivore eats meat, live, frozen, or dried. The Omnivore eats meat, and vegetables, the shrimp pellets, or tropical flakes are good, as well as frozen bloodworms or shrimp. The Herbivores eat vegetables, and need algae wafers, and will usually eat flakes as well.

Hope this helps.

Fish in the Frozen North

Fish Kid

i have a 10 gallon i no its small for the irdecent or w.e sharks but all the fish i got swim around pretty ggood in it lots of rooma and the shrim stuff is brime or w.e its the size of a fingernail like mine n im 13

dont wrry im getting a new tank thats big for my birthday very very sooon AND in some foods names it says frozen that mean in the freazer or something or just a name

Fish Kid

nvm just found out so should i freeze the brine shrimpp stuff? and do i feed that whole or should i make it into the pieces cause some fish just nimble on it toring it into many pieces

COBettaCouple

is it in sheets or cubes? we thaw frozen food in a rubbermaid container with room temp tank water.. then we can feed the fish some and put the rest in the fridge.. we'll use it up to a week and toss the leftover.

Fish Kid

huh its like a container that u keep flakes in

COBettaCouple

i've never gotten frozen food in a container like that.. any chance you could post a pic of it or a link to it? sounds interesting.

Fish Kid

im new to this forum stuff wut should i paste URL - URL Link - HTML tag - or the IMG code

COBettaCouple

any of those should work. you can put the photo in your message. (by clicking on additional options and browsing for it to attach to the message).

Fish Kid

PLZ PLZ PLZ WORK

susitna-flower

Good Job on the photo! That looks like Freeze Dry food. Not Frozen. So first thing is they don't go in the freezer, you just keep them with your flake food, cool, out of the sun light. To feed that you would just maybe break a cube up and use some of it, just enough for the fish to eat it in a couple of minutes.

Fish in the Frozen North

Fish Kid

ahh sweet thx dude. i no i wouldnt n u proly wouldnt either is too eat just 3 things all the time is there some other food i cant get as a treat or is this shrimp stuff a treat

Fish Kid

this is the flakes n pellets i used alrdy

Radcliffe

Giving them small amounts of thawed frozen food is a great treat for your fish.
Another nice treat for your fish is to add a live plant, fish love them!

--R

COBettaCouple

a good thing to do with your foods would be to feed them flakes one day, pellets the next, brine shrimp the next and give them variety in their diet. i think fish like that and it's good for fish to have variety. we have 8 or 9 foods for our bettas to give them variety.