Feeding fish

[hardy49]

How often should we feed our tropical fish - daily,weekly or what ?

[B00]

I tend to feed mine just once a day, and usually only a small amount. Basically if they've still got food in there about 2 minutes later you've over fed them.

i also 'treat' them once a week with slices of weighted down cucumber or shelled cooked peas.

Also whenever I go to the aquarium, I treat them to live bloodworms or brine shrimp.

[hammerman]

Daily.

With total respect hardy49, if you already have fish and you don't know how often to feed them, you should considder getting rid of them and doing a lot more research before you keep live animals.....

Can you imagine the response on here if you said "i've bought a new dog, how often should i feed it...daily or weekly or what ?"

[hardy49]

Thank you for your opinions - in fact we have been keeping tropical fish for almost two years now and the reason I am asking is because a friend of a friend said that he feeds his weekly,and I just wanted to test some reactions.

Have to add that we have owned two very healthy cats for many years now as well.

[showcatbenga]

I feed my fish daily with food specific to each type of feeder, algae,mid,bottom,etc. If I notice any left over food I skip a day & feed the following day instead. Live food or extras like greens I feed about two or three times a week.
When I go on holiday for a week to ten days I have my helper feed sparingly every other day so that the water does not get pollouted so quickly & need a water change while I am away. I have tried holiday feeder blocks but as I have to have cat & dog carers coming in daily anyway it seemed a waste.

[hardy49]

Many thanks. I do confess that I have tended to overfeed them in the past but when this chap said to feed them weekly I thought it was a bit drastic so have decided to feed them very sparingly every morning