I have a 20 gallon fresh water tank with an operating water filter system. I currently have 8 fish. How often should you feed them? At present, I feed every other day. I have a quite large Pleckie taking care of the bottom.

Advice?


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Mick Manning
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On 11 Jan 23 19:07:37, Mickey said the following to All:

I have a 20 gallon fresh water tank with an operating water filter system. I currently have 8 fish. How often should you feed them? At present, I feed every other day. I have a quite large Pleckie taking care of the bottom.

What kind of fish are they? With 8 large fish you definately should have a bigger tank than 20 gallon. The Pleckie will also grow healther.

Depending how big they are you typically feed fish once or twice a day for a minute or so, small finger-pinch amounts of food until they lose interest in eating. Don't just dump food in the tank and take off. Hand feed them and spend time with them. Inspect health. If colors are off, inspect heating and lighting. Check condition of the glass - scrape off algae immediately.

Fish need a variety of diet. Don't just feed fish the same thing every time. Feed them imported brine shrimp, bloodworms, insect eggs, the Pleckie should be fed an algae wafer when the other fish are distracted.

10% water must be vacuumed every week in a 20 gallon. No exceptions.

Nick

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What kind of fish are they? With 8 large fish you definately should have a bigger tank than 20 gallon. The Pleckie will also grow healther.

Depending how big they are you typically feed fish once or twice a day for a minute or so, small finger-pinch amounts of food until they lose interest in eating. Don't just dump food in the tank and take off. Hand feed them and spend time with them. Inspect health. If colors are off, inspect heating and lighting. Check condition of the glass - scrape off algae immediately.

Fish need a variety of diet. Don't just feed fish the same thing every time. Feed them imported brine shrimp, bloodworms, insect eggs, the Pleckie should be fed an algae wafer when the other fish are distracted.

Thanks for this Nick. With the exception of one Angel about 2 inches wide, the others are very small. I do need to spend more time interacting with them. The Angel is always watching me like a small dog. Maybe the bottom has been too clean.
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On 12 Jan 23 10:34:50, Mickey said the following to Nick Andre:

Thanks for this Nick. With the exception of one Angel about 2 inches wide, t others are very small. I do need to spend more time interacting with them. T Angel is always watching me like a small dog. Maybe the bottom has been too clean.

Okay. Very small fish I'd just feed once a day, small pinch of food.

You'd be surprised how Angel's follow you around... when mine see me coming
up to their big tank, they swim in circles, back and forth, get allllll
excited because they know they're getting fed.

They apparently can live for 10 years... maybe longer?

The brine shrimp cubes for medium/bigger fish are interesting; they will go totally nuts trying to tear it apart. Sometimes almost fighting eachother.

Nick

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