How Do You Feed A Community Tank?

I will have my first community tank. I have only had one fish at a time before so it's really easy to feed a betta and make sure there is no extra food.

How do you feed a community tank and make sure everyone gets enough? I will have black neon tetras, Cherry barbs, Panda cories and a Bristlenose Pleco. I plan on feeding New Life Spectrum community pellets 0.5mm size, shrimp pellets, bottom feeder pellets, algae wafers, fresh veggies, frozen food and hopefully the occasional live black worm.

 

I feed flakes on top then drop a shrimp pellet while the greedy livebearers are eating their flakes.

 

Sounds like you are on the right track, a good mix of food there

Personally I just watch their habits, like my tetras will rarely feed off the top, but my angels will basically only eat off the top, so I got new life spectrum float and flakes. I throw the float in first and the angels are distracted and then put flakes on the other side. I will toss an alge wafer in there for the BN pleco a couple times a week at night so the other fish don't attack it.

Watch the tank, if there is still food floating around after 2 min or so you can cut back next time.

 

Bruxes and Bubbles. Hmm so pellets and then shrimp pellets and wafers. Hopefully they are distracted.

Bizarro252. Yay! I want a good mix of food, variety is the spice of life . I will try that.

Ok yeah don't want extra food floating around. Heh

 

55g Community here, I always start with the flakes, once the tetras/livebearers go for it drop Cory pellets on the other side. I try to spike the sinking pellets into the tank so they don't get hung up with an air pocket.

 

55g Community here, I always start with the flakes, once the tetras/livebearers go for it drop Cory pellets on the other side. I try to spike the sinking pellets into the tank so they don't get hung up with an air pocket.

That's the size I will have!! . Oh my goodness, I will have to try the spiking of the pellets for my bottom dwellers, if only to have fun with it!

 

That's the size I will have!! . Oh my goodness, I will have to try the spiking of the pellets for my bottom dwellers, if only to have fun with it!

It's like a little game, get the pellets to the bottom unnoticed!

 

It's like a little game, get the pellets to the bottom unnoticed!

Stealth mission......fish tank style!

 

I drop my cories pellets in the corners near the plants as the cories go under the plants, but the neons normally don't.

 

I drop my cories pellets in the corners near the plants as the cories go under the plants, but the neons normally don't.

This is a risk for me, if my Cories don't find it, my Pleco or bigger livebearers will. Then my planted plants will become floating plants.

 

This is a risk for me, if my Cories don't find it, my Pleco or bigger livebearers will. Then my planted plants will become floating plants.

HAHAHAHA!!!!! I don't have a pleco aka poop machine, so I don't have to worry about anyone digging up my plants.

 

RedLoredAmazon. Good thinking! Yes my tank is built around my Pleco who will be called "little poop machine" until a proper name is given. Bristlenose.

KayOh. If you have driftwood maybe drop something for the Pleco around the wood? That's what I'm thinking of doing

 

My guppies are like sharks they eat everything and the tetras will not eat from the top so I have a little container that I put some tank water in I put the tetras pellets in there so they sink while the guppies eat mostly from the surface. And for the most part evryone leaves the cories good alone.

 

My guppies are like sharks they eat everything and the tetras will not eat from the top so I have a little container that I put some tank water in I put the tetras pellets in there so they sink while the guppies eat mostly from the surface. And for the most part evryone leaves the cories good alone.

Hmm, I am planning on putting the barbs in first so I'll see how they eat and if need be I will soak pellets first before feeding tetras and barbs. Cories will hopefully get majority of pellets, hehehehe. I'll figure out how much they eat when I'm quarantine overall.

 

I use omega one it's a slow sinking micro pellet I literally toss in the container for about 5seconds and then dump it in they seem to like it like that

 

I will try that Bettanewb. . Yeah right now I just have my betta and I just drop in one pellet at a time but doubt I can do that with a community tank . I will look into Omega One pellets as well

 

I went through the same thing after only having one little mouth in a tank to feed. It took some getting used to. I think at the beginning I was over feeding because I was scared not everyone was eating enough.

 

I went through the same thing after only having one little mouth in a tank to feed. It took some getting used to. I think at the beginning I was over feeding because I was scared not everyone was eating enough.

Gonna try to avoid over feeding but it'll probably happen. I'll have to keep an eye out for leftover food and water quality. I think I'll test every few days until I get the hang of it.