What is everyone's feeding schedule for their guppies?

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Hi All,
Just interested in everyone else's feeding schedule for their adult guppies. Mine is as follows;
Every second day is a food day, with pellets, vegies, and bloodworms being fed interchangeably.
For example this week;
Monday - Pellets in morning and bloodworms in afternoon.
Wednesday - pellets in morning and homemade vegie mix in afternoon
Friday - pellets in morning and bloodworms in afternoon
Next week will be;
Sunday - pellets in morning and homemade vegie mix in afternoon
Tuesday - pellets in morning and bloodworms in afternoon
Thursday - pellets in morning and homemade vegie mix in afternoon
Saturday - pellets in morning and bloodworms in afternoon.
Why I do this - Every second day gives fish time to digest food, and not be bloated. They also are hungrier, leaving less waste food for me to clean up. Offering vegies and bloodworms adds variety. Bloodworms, if given too often can cause dropsy or bloating. DIYing my vegies allows me to add variety.
Anyway,
Please add your schedule - however complex or simple they are. Also add why you do so.
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My fish get fed once a day, period. Except for scheduled fasting days. And the "oops i forgot to feed them" fasting days.
 

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My fish get fed once a day, period. Except for scheduled fasting days. And the "oops i forgot to feed them" fasting days.
Nice what do you like feeding them?
 
My guppies always have fry so my feeding schedule is a bit different I feed 8am, 1pm and 9pm flake everyday blood worms one of the evenings each week and usually Mondays they get cucumbers or zucchini and occasionally I swap out a flake feed for mini growth pellet or colour pellets
 
I feed them once a day. And when an event comes up, twice a day. But once a day is sufficient. Overfeeding is very tempting.
 

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Depends what’s going on in the tanks. Usually once per day. If there’s a lot of fry I might do 2-3 smaller feedings a day.
 
For my guppys and endlers...

Twice a day, every day at the same time every day. No fasting day for my fishys as I've never had a problem with overfeeding or bloating.

First feeding filters off so no food is blown around and I drop food in slowly letting them eat all they can in 2 mins. There are no left overs this way lol.

Second feeding filters on so they can chase as they would in the wild and it's a set amount of food every time so no time limit but food is usually consumed in less than 60 seconds.

Foods consist of the following:

Hikari fancy guppy pellets (staple)
Fluval bug bite pellets
Glofish color enhancing flake
Hikari FD tubiflex worms (absolute favorite)
Hikari FD bloodworms
Hikari FD daphnia (next favorite)
Omega one frozen brine shrimp

FD is freeze dried, and they DO get rehydrated 5 to 10 mins before feeding depending on size of food.

First feeding they get the fancy guppy pellets every time, second feeding is pretty much random, making sure they get their tubiflex worms twice a week. One thing that is regular about schedule is on water change day they only get their late meal, post water change and it's the frozen brine shrimp every time. Sorta like a treat for enduring the WC although they seem like nothing is even going on lol. I think they may feel like the fresh water brings in fresh food as well, but that's just me!
 
I've tried a bunch of different things but eventually ended up back where I started just with Nutrafin guppy flakes as the main daily food. I like that you can just poke a small hole in the foil and shake them out as slow as you like, like a pepper/salt shaker. Little food for little guys. Once a week some veggies saved from last night's dinner, usually peas. Plus squished snails when the opportunity presents itself. I don't worry about it if I get busy on the weekend on they skip a day, but they're such good beggers, they usually get their way.
 
my guppies in the 20 get fed once a day. they usually get flakes and some of the cory tablets that they steal. every saturday i usually feed them bloodworms.
 

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