Overfeeding fish.....

"George" wrote in message news:Izrzf.498115$084.342798@attbi_s22...
The problem with overfeeding has more to do with water quality than it does
with the nutritional health of the fish. You definitely don't want to
foul the water.

You do not want for your fish to starve as well.

"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
news:Izrzf.498115$084.342798@attbi_s22...
The problem with overfeeding has more to do with water quality than it
does with the nutritional health of the fish. You definitely don't
want to foul the water.

You do not want for your fish to starve as well.

That is almost never a problem, unless of course, you never feed them at
all.

George

"George" wrote in message news:QJyzf.741376$xm3.52990@attbi_s21...
"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
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The problem with overfeeding has more to do with water quality than it
does with the nutritional health of the fish. You definitely don't
want to foul the water.

You do not want for your fish to starve as well.

That is almost never a problem, unless of course,
you never feed them at all.

Grazer fish like tangs should eat every day, couple times
per day. Similarly like domestic cattle. If you feed your
fish every 2-3 days you cause them to starve between feedings.
Some fish digestive system is very short, and food eaten
exits the system very quickly. After 2-3 hours they are hungry.
They are used to the situation in nature where they have
food in aboundance and they can snack on it during whole day.
Feeding in one large portion every 2-3 days is very wrong.

It's not frequency that causes problems; it's quantity. I feed
miniscule amounts several times per day, no single food more than 2 or 3
times a week. They lick the platters clean in seconds, not minutes.
Their diet consists of shrimp once a week, various flakes often, live
guppies twice a week, I forget the name of the refrigerated stuff,
different kinds of pellets, occasionally some scrapings from my own raw
oyster on the half shell. My fish don't have bony butts, but they're
not fat either.

rtk

"rtk" wrote in message ...
It's not frequency that causes problems; it's quantity. I feed
miniscule amounts several times per day, no single food
more than 2 or 3 times a week.

The key is to provide food as close to how it is provided in
nature as possible. In nature they have food in constant
supply, so we should feed them several times per day
(small quantities) and this is proper regime for all fish except
predatory carnivorous eating whole fish/shrimp like eels/gruppers.
You are doing good. Feeding rare, once per 2-3 days is not good.