FishProfiles.com Message Forums

What is a good feeding schedule that incorporates the following foods? Freeze-dried blood worms, tubifex worms, color flakes, standard flakes, frozen brine shrimp. I feed twice a day in the morning and then early evening. I have a 29 gallon tank with Barbs, a Ram and a Gourami. Thanks.

I would rotate them and feed once a day only and do not feed on the day you do the water changes.

Have a look in My Profile for my feeding program also these other feeding topics I posted some time back.

Keith
Have a look in [link=My Profile]http://
www.fishprofiles.com/interactive/forums/profile.asp?userid=6741" style="COLOR: #00FF00[/link] for my tank info

[link=Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do.]http://www.fishprofiles.com" style="COLOR: #00FF00[/link]

[link=Feeding Ingredients and other necessary information P1]http:// www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/General%20Freshwater/61913.html?200507171733 " style="COLOR: #00FF00[/link]

[link=The Purpose of Different Ingredients P2]http:// www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/General%20Freshwater/61917.html?01754572" style="COLOR: #00FF00[/link]

[link=Vitamins P3]http:// www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/General%20Freshwater/61915.html?200507171743" style="COLOR: #00FF00[/link]

[link=Feeding: When, how and how much P4]http:// www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/General%20Freshwater/61973.html?200507172308" style="COLOR: #00FF00[/link]

[link= Why are there different kinds of foods? P5]http:// www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/General%20Freshwater/61974.html?200507172312]fishprofiles.com" style="COLOR: #00FF00[/link]






Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do.
I VOTE DO YOU if not WHY NOT?
VOTE NOW VOTE NOW

i keep quite large well stocked tanks with a variety of fish with differing needs, im possibly a bit overkill with food variety, but lets be honest it can do no harm especially since many fish especially insectivorous fish may have access to as many as 200 or so edible bugs in their locales.

I have had pretty much zero nutritional problems but then i use 5 different types of flakes, 9 different types of live foods, and various frozen diets , and also use veggies. You can rotate the feeding , and feed little and often.

A word of caution on "complete" fish flakes, often they arent anywhere near complete, just in the same way that dog and cat food isnt complete bearing in mind lots of pet foods are just horsemeat with a hint of flavouring, and some wheat fillers thrown in, not to mention food dyes. The use of fish flakes is better than offering just one type of live food or one vegetable for examples because at least the flake food will be balanced with a few etra vitamins and usually the correct amount of roughage.

Many conveinient foods will have issues because of the means of preservation, usually freezing and drying.

Drying means that many plant enzymes are lost, and these can be beneficial to vegetarian fish and the bacteria that reside in the gut of such fish, so offering a bit of fresh vegis advantageous.

Freezing destroys vitamins, especially a range of b vitamins and thiamin, this causes problems with co2 exchange in the lungs or gills.This is common through a range of animals especially amphibians and reptiles too.

Often the limited supply of species of suitable live fare will mean that nutrition cannot really balanced by using them, and many keepers using nothing else will have fish with gut impaction.

The only real solution is to use a range of foods that is as wide as possible, thusly counteracting the problems of one type of food by offering another from a different type, rotate the dry, the frozen and the live often. Fish will often show preferences varying from individual to individual,this you can do little about, but the more types of food you offer when a fish is young the more it will probably accept later in life. Scientific studies have shown that feeding behavour in lots of fish species is often formed quite early on , fish therefore gradually become less open to new feeding options as they get older, often preferring to go for tried and tested sources instead of unrecognised new foods.
Think of toddlers that wont eat vegetables or healthy foods, and grow up eating nothing but fries and pizza. The reason for this is generally lazy parenting,and the offering of conveinience food.With the fish- YOU are the parent.


Variety is the spice of life lol.

as others said...yeah..u should rotate them
its a gud thing u have varieties in ur fish fud...thats a gud start

i feed my fish only once on weekdays...the weekend is a break for them...i rotate flakes with freeze dried guds.
like once or twice flakes,then freeze dried, then frozen and live ones.

mon - flakes (this includes pellets or wafers as well)
tues - freeze dried
wed - white worm
thurs- flakes or freeze dried
fri- frozen fud
sat and sun - rest days