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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

How Much Should You Feed Your Pet Fish?

When your feeding your fish the biggest thing is to not have a lot of it sitting on your substrate at the end of a feeding session. If in your case you do have food floating around and sitting on the your substrate, and your fish are not eating anymore, then you are feeding to much. One of the easiest things to switch when feeding your aquarium pet fish is to make sure that the food is similar to the size of your pet fishes mouth. So for example, if you have small fish like guppies, platys, mollies, neons of all kinds, fish along those sizes it just does not make sense to feed them a flake the size of a quarter now does it.

So if you do have fish along these sizes then your flake should be the size of a dime or so. Once you get the first hurdle past, which is how big your food should be, then comes the next hurdle of how long you should feed them for at a feeding session. How I judge this is I'll see how much food the fish can eat with out it hitting the substrate. So if your feeding your fish and the food is just reaching the substrate then immediately getting eaten then your in good shape. After I do this little test of how close to the substrate the food can fall before getting eaten I'll then wait about 30 second before adding more food. This is so the fish can get down what's in their mouths already so that when there is more food put in to the water that they can eat it all before it falls in to the substrate where if not eaten, will pollute the water in the tank.

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