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Right i have 13 neons.
i feed them,

Moanday morning- flake
Night-Bloodworm(frozen)

Tuesday Morning- flake
Night-Brineshrimp(frozen)

Wednesay Morning- flake
Night- Tubifefreezedried)

Thursday Morning- flake
Night- Bloodworm(frozen)

Friday- No feeding

Saturday Morning- flake
Night- Brineshrimp(frozen)

Sunday Morning- flake
Night- Tubifefreeze dried)



How is this for neons? Is it too much frozen food or is it alright?

I feed my tets once every two days with primarily frozen and/or live foods. If you're not having any problems with phosphates, then by all means, continue. Look like your fish are being pampered.

Last edited by Cup_of_Lifenoodles at 11-Nov-2004 15:44

It's fine. You can definitely scale back on all that protein if you ever want to do so.

Many people feed fishes tubifex worms sparingly, but twice a week isn't too much.

I am VERY wary of Tubifex worms, because they're the chief carriers of the spores of Whirling Disease -- with which I have had at least one bout, which I suspect came from freeze-dried Tubifex. (The spores can survive even when the Tubifex is freeze-dried.)

This is a nasty disease, although not as nasty as Neon Tetra Disease. Once a fish shows symptoms it's incurable and should be immediately removed and euthanized. However, unlike NTD, the spores are extremely vulnerable to warm water -- raise your tank temperature to 80 deg (27 C) or a bit more, dump in some nitrofurazolidine as an additional precaution, and remove every sick fish or corpse the moment you see it so the other fish won't eat it, and you can stop it from spreading any further. But the safest thing to do is to avoid Tubifex.