How often do you feed your fish?

[Vinh]

I often feed my fishes when they still alive...When they die I feed them to other...

 

[Momgoose56]

Cichlid tank: once a day for diurnal, once a night for nocturnals.
Tropical tanks: once a day
Snail tank: 4 days a week
I fast everybody (including my husband) one day every couple weeks.
NOTE: Husband doesn't have to fast if he cooks that day lol!

 

[Morpheus1967]

Twice daily, 7:00 am and 7:00pm. And then the catfish and clown pleco get fed around 9:00pm.

 

[Thedudeiam94]

I feed my 10 discus 2 times a day Monday through Friday once in morning and once in evenings when I get home from work. Weekends are 3 times a day breakfast, lunch and dinner.

 

[RyanC14]

It depends on the fish and what kind of food I'm feeding.

 

[12Cin12]

I feed twice a day. The small fish get betta bug bites and and the Bolivian Rams and cories get cichlid bug bites. At night, I also feed Repashy algae formula.

 

[Tony_P]

I feed twice a day .. a pinch of flakes for the top/ middle feeders and a pinch of bug bites for the bottom feeders. I try to be cautious not to over feed on this schedule. That's the biggest danger I see.

Every week or so I like to put some veggies (cucumber/ zucchini/ spinach) in for them to snack on while they watch TV.

Tony

 

[86 ssinit]

Most tanks twice a day. What they can eat in 2 min. I use many different foods. Shrimp once a day or less. Discus are still young and under 9 months so they are eating as often as I can feed them. Maybe 6-10 times a day. Whatever they can eat in a min.

 

[Fish0n]

Depends on the fish. I have a peacock eel who I feed less than once a week with live food that is on the larger side. The eel is supposed to be nocturnal but I found that once he associated me with worms he pops out whenever I'm in the room so I don't worry about feeding him at night anymore. There was little information about how often to feed these guys so after I got him (already full grown) I paid close attention to the size of his stomach and activity levels to find how often I thought best suited feeding him.
I rotate between pellets, flakes, seaweed sheets, freeze dried, frozen and live foods for all of my other fish 1-2 times a day.

 

[coralbandit]

I feed as often as I can and my water change schedule allows ..
Few fish actually over eat as opposed to suffer from poor water quality when over fed ...
I dig fasting older big fish..I feed fry 10 times if I could ...
Again as much as water changes allow ..When I know my time for maintenance will be short I feed less..
Momgoose56 I like to fast myself ! I cook for myself also but less is more for us too..

 

[Cheesecake]

Either once a day or every other day, depending on whether or not I'm home or if I remember .

 

[NC122606]

Twice daily, 7:00 am and 7:00pm. And then the catfish and clown pleco get fed around 9:00pm.

Umm...
Are you copying me???

Anyways my fish get fed at 7:00 am and 7:00 pm and then my Banjo, Pleco, and Twig around 9:00...

 

[zby67]

I feed twice a day and have noticed they scatter and hide if I miss a feeding....

 

[Taj Smith]

I feed once a day their main diet which is NLS pellets and supplement norI for the tangs every other day.

What's your feeding schedule like?

Once a day but sometimes twice a day depending on the type of food and what condition the fish is in.

 

[Kevin1962]

Twice a day. Have growing tetras.

 

[Grammywms]

twice a day (3 Northfin betta bits)

 

[qquake2k]

Twice a day, all four tanks.

 

[Dave125g]

Only once a day. The fry tanks get fed twice.

 

[SeanyBaggs123]

I'm supposed to feed them?!?!

 

[Hyzenthlay]

daily , every other day?

 

[Feohw]

Once every day. I won't feed them for a day once or twice a week.

 

[ImpairedFish]

I feed mine in the morning and in the evening and skip one day a week.

 

[Littlebudda]

Depends on which tank my cichlid tank the Oscars and BP’s are a bottomless pit when it comes to food so sometimes 3 times a day, the small tank once every day or two

 

[Coradee]

I feed mine once a day, I don’t fast unless I accidentally forget to feed them.

 

[kansas]

I'm a noob and I find opinions all over the place about feeding my new betta. I'm sure more fish are killed by overfeeding than underfeeding.

 

[Hyzenthlay]

same I've heard conflicting opinions. you should fast them, you shouldn't..idk. but I do think more food, more poop, dirtier water. and I don't want them to bloat or anything.

 

[Littlebudda]

Especially people new to fish keeping as their water management is not as good and they over feed making it 10 times worse

 

[Littlebudda]

More poop for sure when my Oscars go you would think a small dog had got in the tank and left a load behind

 

[zorianak]

I fast mine once a week or so, but otherwise feed morning/evening. There's been some studies on mammals showing that they can develop diabetes when fed only once per day (specific to dogs/cats) because of the rise/fall in blood sugar, and I'd not be too surprised if we found something similar in fish (that are technically eating throughout the day in their natural environment). So that made me swap to about 2x a day.

 

[KingJamal2]

daily , every other day?

Once per day. I don’t feed them when I go on vacation

 

[ghostdawg]

Once every day. I won't feed them for a day once or twice a week.

What he said...

 

[imba]

if not raising fry, once every two days works best for me. Cleaner tanks with no negative impact on fish health

 

[JasonOz]

Flakes in the morning. Floating pellets and sinking wafers at night.

 

[BigSteve]

I feed my fish once a day just a little pinch of whatevers on the menu for the day and i feed my shrimp every other day usually when the lights go down or there is a fight between the endlers and the amanos

 

[Kobiashi3]

Just curious to see how often everyone feeds their fish?

 

[StarGirl]

I feed them once a day when I get home from work.

 

[Mike1995]

Once, maybe twice for my 90g. The other 3 tanks just once. Then Thursday and Sunday I do a no feed day.

 

[Barrylfc]

Twice a day for me, first thing in the morning, then a smaller dose late in the evening

 

[flyinGourami]

It depends. I would like to feed two smaller meals every day, but in reality my feedings are really inconsistent. Sometimes I go 4 days not feeding them(because I forget lol), and other days I feed 3 tiny meals.
Generally I feed once a day around 5 times a week.

 

[AquaCaitlin]

All my adult fish get once a day- but sometimes I’ll forget I fed them than feed them again, only to remember I already did it. Or I’ll think I have fed them when I haven’t and accidentally fast them for a day.

The babies get like 3-5 feedings a day, though.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

It used to be twice a day, but now that my bettas are getting older, I am moving to once a day.

 

[FinalFins]

Meh for new fish I stuff em with food then transition them to once a day.

 

[Wrench]

3 times a day.
One big one in the morning and 2 very small ones,one at 1pm one at 8pm

 

[mattgirl]

Adults once a day. Babies several times a day.

 

[JasonOz]

I feed twice a day and fast 2 days a week.

 

[PNWBettas]

My community tank gets twice a day (neons, honey gourami, albino corys) and my 11 week old bettas get 3-4 times a day.

 

[JasperWard]

How much should i feed of my betta fluval bug bite flakes? I have the pellets to but as she is so old it is so much easier to feed flakes because they have a larger surface area to strike

 

[BigManAquatics]

I aim for a small pinch of the flakes. Doesm't always work out that way, though

 

[JasperWard]

I am thinking about doing like 2 medium flakes twice a day, i feed with tweezers and dangle it just above the water so she jumps a little. How much would you say are in your pinches?

 

[BigManAquatics]

I am thinking about doing like 2 medium flakes twice a day, i feed with tweezers and dangle it just above the water so she jumps a little. How much would you say are in your pinches?

Often times way too much! The tweezers might be a better idea. I am just glad they are almost gone. So tough for me to feed flakes to just 1 fish. Especially when the other tanks i feed flakes to have 20 and 40 fish.