How to properly feed your pet fish
This question seems to be asked a lot. It seems that just saying, “feed your pet fish for two minutes” just doesn’t do the job. So I’m going to try my best at telling you how to feed your pet fish.
First with all the types of foods out there flake food it most popular so that’s what I’m going to talk about. When feeding your fish you don’t want that much food to hit the bottom of the tank. If you have a lot of food sitting on the bottom you are feeding to much, the easiest way to change this is by making sure that the food can be eaten in one bite by the fish.
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So if you have guppies or platys or swordtails or neons etc., you want to make sure the flake isn’t the size of a quarter, but more that of a dime. Then comes the question of how long you should feed them for. Once you get the right size down for the flake, you should drop in just enough food so that it almost makes it to the bottom, but doesn’t quite make it without being eaten. The little particles that do make it to the substrate will be eaten up when your fish are grazing so no need to worry if some flake does reach the bottom. Then wait until all the food is gone, and the fish aren’t swimming around with flakes in their mouths, I will usually wait about 45 second to 1 minute before adding more food. I will add food three times at each meal time. So that means every 45 seconds to 1 minute I will add food for a total duration of 3 minutes.
Depending on the size of your fish you may have three meals a day or two.
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