how much do you feed?

[kalebjarrod]

i have seen many posts about feeding but i was hopeing to get a few extra questions answered

How many grams of food do you feed per fish? (we will need an indication of fish lenght to compare eating habits correctly) i have heard of people feeding what they can eat in 5 min but how much food is that?

how often do you feed these servings?

[Proteus]

When I am working they get fed 2-3 times a day (depending on what shift I am on)

On days off, 3-5 small feeds per day... (small pinch of food, varied each time)

or for the main meal (evening) 1 x Bloodworm cube and a pinch of ColorBits.

[Chris McMahon]

Is that per discus Proteus?

[Proteus]

No, for a tank of 16....

they munch it all down in about 2-3 mins MAX

[flukes]

The way i do it is just feed a very small amount and continue too till some dont seem intrested anymore or less enthusiastic.

I do this probably 2-3 times a day, more on weekends.

[kalebjarrod]

thats excatley what i do, but i was more curious to know how much we call a pinch, how much is "till they lose enthusthiasm"?

i was hoping to work out what amount of food a fish eats in a year!

i just don't have the digital scales to do it at home myself

[Mattzilla]

i feed a lot of small meals each day. in one tank i have 6 adult discus which get a cube of blood worms, a cube of brine shrimp and a spirulina wafer for breakfast. then i feed about 5 cubes of beefheart for the rest of the day....one at a time, every couple of hours. i also throw in a good pinch of dried granule food after each w/c.

in my other tank with juvies, they get the same variety just a bit less cuase they can't eat it all

hth

[kalebjarrod]

but how much does that weigh?

i think i might have to go out and by myself a set of digital scales.

[Chris McMahon]

i think i might have to go out and by myself a set of digital scales.

Don't forget defrost the worms and drain the water before weighing.

[Paulo]

The way i do it is just feed a very small amount and continue too till some dont seem intrested anymore or less enthusiastic.

I do this probably 2-3 times a day, more on weekends.

Hey,

Hmm.... isn't it dangerous to overfeed your discus? I read sometimes overfeeding sometimes make their stomach painful.

These usually happen too goldfish too