How is my feeding routine?

Hello I have a 20 gallon long, moderate planted (5 plants) with 4 young and small Albino Cory Cats, 1 Dwarf Gourami, 5 Amano, 8 Neon Tetras, 7 Zebra Danios.

Feeding Routine:
Twice a Day - I feed 1 large pinch of tropical flakes to my Danios, and I also put a medium pinch tropical flakes into water column for my Neons rubbing my fingers together (because the Danios eat all the surface food)

Once a day - I drop in 8 shrimp pellets for the Cory Cats and the Gourami (the Gourami is not proactive enough to ever eat the flakes, they get eaten by all the smaller fish, but I always see him going after the pellets). I figure if there are left overs which I doubt because they never stop looking for food, the amano's will eat the rest.

Every 2-3 Days - I rotate in dropping in 2 Algea wafers broken into smaller pieces for who ever gets them, and peas cut in 1/4's.

Twice a week - I rotate in half a cube of frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp.

Does this sound right? Been doing this routine now for 2 weeks, the water seems clear, the fish always seem hungry but I think that's normal.

 

Sounds okay to me. You've got variety going which is great and there aren't any leftovers to rot. As long as everyone is getting something to eat I wouldn't worry too much.

 

I would only feed once a day. Fish are capable of going days even weeks without food. You have a great variety but I would only feed once a day. Also adding a fast day (no food) once a week is good for their digestive system.

 

I would only feed once a day. Fish are capable of going days even weeks without food. You have a great variety but I would only feed once a day. Also adding a fast day (no food) once a week is good for their digestive system.

Just because they are able to go without food for a few days doesn't mean they should. How would you like to be starved for a day? And I would add 4 more cories. Also I wouldn't put so many pellets down. I would put 4 down because their is only 4 cories right?

 

Fasting once a week is a good way to help prevent overfeeding. Fish don't eat every day in the wild (unlike us who eat multiple times a day and can't imagine fasting for a day without a little bit of pain); fasting one day a week is perfectly fine for fish. I fast my fish one day a week too.

 

Just because they are able to go without food for a few days doesn't mean they should. How would you like to be starved for a day? And I would add 4 more cories. Also I wouldn't put so many pellets down. I would put 4 down because their is only 4 cories right?

It's actually healthy for their digestive systems, especially if the day before you feed them crushed peas. I'm not advocating starving them just a fast day to help the digestive system.

Edit: also, I completely agree about the Corys they do best in schools of 7 or more.