Hey everyone.  Just wanted to know what everyones regular feeding routine is.   I tend to feed my fish once every 2 days to keep the water quality up.  

tank: 29 gal

Fish: 1 keyhole, 1 bolivian ram, 7 glo lite tetras, 3 Cory's, 2 ottos, 2 female bettas, 3 dalmation red-tailed platies, pair of guppies, 6 amano shrimp.

1X every other day.
food: Freeze dried bloodworms, tropical flake, cichlid mini granules, Hikari sinking wafers (regular and algea).  Once a week frozen brime shrimp.

What is a keyhole?

My inhabitants of the 75 Gallon are: 4 Guppies, 1 Silver Lyretail Mollie, 3 Green Swordtails, 4 Corydoras Palateus, 11 Zebra Danio, 2 Goldfish, 1 Female Betta, an unknown number of ghost shrimp.

For my adult fish I feed 2x each day except thursday.  I do not feed them at all Thursday.  In the morning they get flakes.  In the evening they get a few flakes and 1 or more of the following: Frozen Brine Shrimp, Tubifex Worms, Sinking Shrimp Pelletsm Bloodworms, Spirulina Algeae Wafer, or Varoety Wafers.  As soon as the room lights go out, I drop in some wafers for teh cories and Shrimp.

For the baby fish it is flakes/first bites 3 times a day with a fourth feeding of either flakes/first bites or frozen baby brine shrimp at night.  On Thursdays I only feed the babies 2 times.
Eventually they move up to the bigger foods like tubifex and blood worms while still on the 4 times a day sked.

I forgot to add my 2 Ottos.

Branden

I feed my bettas twice a day..   most of them get 100% changes and the others don't drop any food so spoilage is not an issue..    in my 10  and 20 though, I'm thinking that every other day would probably be a good idea..

Likely Keyhole cichlid is what is being referred to.  

My guys (bettas, loaches, snails, shrimp, plecos and a naughty paradise fish) all get frozen foods 90% of the time.  Bloodworms, glassworms, tubifex, daphnia, beefheart, mysis, brine shrimp and plankton are the most frequent.  I also feed fresh/blanched veggies once or twice a week with the occasional treat of spirulina wafers or flakes for the plecos (and the naughty perry fish will steal spirulina flakes once in a while.)

Lately I have tried from live food since I have recently acquired two ADFs....red wigglers have been a big hit with the froggers....and the dojo loaches!  Again, the naughty perry fish loves the red wigglers too.  

I feed my kids (bettas, angels, pleco, kuhlii loaches, snails, platies, ADF) mainly frozen foods (daphnia, bloodworms, beefheart, brine shrimp). Maybe about once a week the bettas will get pellets, the platies will get flakes, and the ADF will get frog bites. I feed the pleco and the snail in one of the tanks some fresh veggies once a week or every two weeks and drop an algae wafer or two in that tank maybe 2 - 3 times a week for the kuhlii's, cories, pleco, and snail. Of course, the betta and platy gorge themselves on whatever is given...

As a treat, I sometimes get live food (mainly blackworms and brine shrimp, but the occasional daphnia in the summer) from my LFS for them -- they love it!

I only feed once daily and skip a day in the week.

DPs were being fed twice a day, now only once per day.
Male betta, female bettas, neons are all fed twice a day, although some days we skip the second feeding.
ADFs are fed ... well, one gets food once every other day; the other needs some fattening up so he gets fed every day - once or twice.
All of the above get a mix of frozen bloodworms, mysis and brine shrimp.  Neons occasionally get a sprinkle of flakes, which the grrls have ignored thus far.
Cories and pleco are given shrimp pellets every other evening, and fresh veggies (zucchini or cucumber) 2-3 times per week.
Shrimp and snails take care of any excess.

Sunday is a fast day.  Monday morning is peas all around (except DPs).

I feed everything (bettas, cichlids, paradise fish, tetras, corys, otos and my misanthropic fat old raphael cat, Rafe) small amounts twice a day except for my ADF, King Leonard the Fat; he gets fed once a day if he's getting a larger species of worm, twice if he's getting smaller foods. Everyone participates in Starve the Poor Innocent Fish Day once a week. The bettas get live fruit flies, daphnia, grindal worms, white worms, blackworms, baby red wigglers and (soon) scuds, plus frozen blood worms, glassworms, tubifex worms (tubifex are gamma radiated) brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, plankton/krill and occasional shrimp or beefheart. The cons get appropriately sized live and frozen foods from the "betta menu", plus live European nightcrawlers, some veggies and some spirulina flake or cichlid pellets, the mbuna get veggies, homemade shrimp mix, herbivore pellets and spirulina flakes. The juvie paradise fish get the same as the bettas, but the adult paradise and the tetras get backed off on frozen and live sometimes or they won't stop spawning, (they can get nasty when they spawn, and I get tired of playing referee). The corys are in with paradise fish and tetras, so they get the same foods. The otos get veggies (shared with the snails), algae wafers and sometimes shrimp pellets. Rafe the Lazy gets pretty much what the cons get except veggies--Rafe says "ew" to veggies--with additional sinking carnivore pellets and shrimp pellets. There is more fish food in my freezer than people food and you can't walk six feet in my house without seeing a culture of something crawly. Poor ol' FM and FD make do with whatever space is left for their own food.
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I usually get up and have a light breakfast. Black coffee (usually Kona), toast or crispy english muffin, and a bowl of oatmeal with some added fruit and flax seeds... Oh, you meant fish?

Supapoopa, I think your feeding regimen may be a little on the light side. One fasting day a week should be plenty. Some fish will start to attack each other if there isn't enough food around. I think a high quality staple flake fed lightly at least once a day would be a good idea. The FD bloodworms just don't pass for food in my fishroom, even before I went gaga for live food, I found FD BW being spit right back out at me. Patooie!

My regimen runs pretty close to FM's, with the exception that I offer almost no frozen foods. Add live adult and baby brine shrimp, decapsulated brine shrimp cysts, floating cichlid pellets, and high quality all-purpose flake to her list.
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Can someone say how long it takes their fish to eat?

eg. If I feed frozen brine shrimp, small cube slightly thawed, if I add it to 2 places, left and centre of tank...nothing reaches the gravel and it's gone in seconds. My clowns are having to swim higher and higher to get their share. A small piece of algae wafer lasts longer as 3 clowns push each other around and platies try too. I don't want to overfeed them, but I wonder if I add enough sometimes. Mary

I work real close to where I live, so my fish get fed 3 times a day (except the betta, I feed once in the morning 3-4 betta bites).  Most of my fish are cichlids and they all get New Life Spectrum (NLS) throughout the week.  Every 2-3 weeks on a Saturday, they get frozen bloodworms, and every Sunday, everyone gets thawed/shelled frozen peas. My catfish get NLS H2O wafers every 2-3 days and my cichlid fry get frozen brine shrimp and a tiny form of NLS pellets. Oh, yeah and my mbunas get veggie flakes with the NLS.

Too many mouths to feed! LOL!
~M

Feeding the fish. Everyone is fed twice a day except for the betta which is only once a day. Everyone fasts on Sunday. The goldfish get peas, ProGold, orange slices, zuccinni, sprillia flakes, frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp, frozen daphnia and live black worms. The community tanks get everything except the oranges and veggis and the ProGold. They get flakes, pellets, shrimp pellets and algae wafers. I mix up what they get. If they get flakes/pellets in the morning then they get frozen/live food at night. I watch while I feed them so it can take awhile, lol, to make sure not too much goes to the bottom for the corydoras. I love feeding time!

FM- your fish eat better than I do, can I come eat at your place? I have heard you say that you only can 'cook' good meals for fishies, but I bet even the PB&J is extra-good there I feed once a day and mix it up with mostly freeze-dried stuff like bloodworms, daph, and mealworms, along with flakes, shrimp pellets, and algae wafers.

once in the morning when I get up every day, with a day without feeding once a week.
Frozen bloodworms, flakes, dried daphia/bloodworms, depending on how I feel like feeding them. Of course, sinking wafers for my loachies.

I've got a herd of panda corys (8, three of which are less that a  half inch, one less than 3/4, the remaining four shy of an inch....the tiny 4 were born in my tank...) and a male betta, as well as a growing pile of MTS, a diminishing population of pondies, a giant golden apple, and a baby (but  growing quickly!) columbian rams....They get fed once a day, a mix of shrimp pellets, bottom feeder wafers and algae wafers, and Fidge (betta) gets live bloodworms once a day...there's a good amount of native algae, and I put in zucchini a couple times a week...they usually fast on fridays.  I also add cuttlebone, and despite conflicting oppinions, Big Apple considers it food (as well as the silk plants...)

I posted before but there was an error...  arghhh!!  


CT: Well only tank that was strictly on the feed every other day routine was my 29 gal tank.  Reason was that that is the only tank with a decent fish load that was at my girlfriends place.  She tends to overfeed them quite a bit and i've caught her sneaking some more food into the tank after i had  fed them (gave her a lecture on that!).  Since i'm not there everyday to check on the condition of the fish or tank I set the rule for her to only feed them once every two days, until she gets the idea of how to properly maintain the tank.  Fish have been doing great with rapid growth!  My keyhole cichlid was about 1.5" when i put him in my tank about 3 months ago.  He's double that size now and has stayed as peaceful as can be.  Just the occacional stare down with the Bolivian Ram, but never any true aggression problems with the other fish.


Everyone else gets fed once a day.  And i sometimes will randomly skip a feeding when its close to water change day.