Feeding Schedule

So you might be wondering what, and how often, to feed your fish. Most of mine get a variety of different types of food, along with their staple food. I have different types of food for each one and different feeding times for them too.

In the 55 gallon, my tiger barbs and gourami get a staple of flake food. They usually get this four time a week. The other days I may feed frozen brine shrimp, frozen bloodworms, frozen beefheart, and I sometimes skip a day. The cory catfish have a staple of algae discs, and they like to take chunks of the tiger barbs' meaty foods when I feed those. The tiger barbs like to eat the algae discs too. They all pretty much share. The Senegal bichir has a staple of live rosy red minnows, one every day if we've got some. He also steals chunks of beefheart and brine shrimp from the barbs, and will sometimes eat an entire algae disc whole. I'm still not sure why the carnivores love the algae discs so much. The gourami gets some cucumber slices every once in a while. My parents don't buy veggies that often, but my fish always get a share when we do have them.

In the 20 gallon, the cichlids are fed a staple of Wardley cichlid flake food. The female betta also eats these flakes. I offer them freeze-dried bloodworms once a week, but the cichlids don't usually go for them. The snail gets three algae discs every week, and the cichlids like to pick off of those too.

Gary and JayJay both get a small pinch of freeze-dried bloodworms every other day. Occasionally, I'll replace Gary's bloodworms with a few pellets. Gary was pretty easy to wean off the bloodworms onto the betta pellets, but all my other bettas have had trouble with them, so I gave up on it. I know that if it's all I offered them, they'd probably eat it, but I don't mind, so I'm not going to worry about it.