I love feeding my fish new and interesting foods but I don't have a lot of Tanks so to
keep the food fresh I used to use a system of pouring the food into little blue jars that
go into my refrigerator and then I store the rest of it in my freezer but then I watched
a presentation by Dr. Ashley Emanuele a vet who specializes in Aquatics and
she recommended only keeping food for six months even if it's frozen or refrigerated
and unfortunately around the same time my freezer lost power so all of my stored fish food went bad
so I decided to completely revamp my fish root system so that a) I no longer use the blue jars
but I just refrigerate all the fish food in their original packaging because b) I'm only
keeping them for six months after opening you can see how I clearly write the range of months
on the package and finally c) since I'm going to be tossing all the food after six months I'm
trying to drastically reduce the number of food brands I serve I know it's still a lot because
I'm definitely a fish food hoarder but I'm working on it Monday is frozen fish food day and I'll pick
one food for the adult nano fish such as spirulina brine shrimp mini bloodworms and daphnia and then
I'll pick another food for the babies something like baby brine shrimp rotifers and cyclopods I
thaw the cubes out in a little plastic cup and then I use a baby spoon to stitch out the right
kind of food for each tank so for example the clown killies and shrimp in the 5 gallon office
tank mostly get the tiny cycle cyclopods while the 20 gallon high display tank mostly gets daphnia
and then the shell dwellers get both now if you you're wondering how I determined how much to
feed just be aware that the fish will always act hungry even if you just fed them an hour
ago because you know in the wild they're always looking they don't always have something to eat
so they have to spend much of their day hunting and constantly looking for food so don't be fooled
by their cute little faces just look at their bellies to make sure they're slightly rounded
and then adjust the portion size accordingly so they're not too obese and not sunken in either
Tuesday is Rapashy gel food day so the community fish all get a mix of Community Plus and Soilent
Green which I refrigerate and then I make a special batch of Morning Wood for my clown pleco
which I'm going to cut up and freeze so they'll last longer now the 20 gallon high just gets the
two kinds of Repashy I just made whereas the shell dwellers and five gallon office tank they get the
Community Plus Rapashy gel as well as a sprinkling of the raw Rapashy powder and that's because the
clown killies really just prefer the powder form and then the baby fish and shrimp will totally get
out competed by the adults so it's better to feed a powder that's going to easily drift to wherever
they're hiding Wednesday is for dry prepared foods now a question I got from many of you is
how do I make sure all my fish get a bite to eat because the fast fish are gorging themselves and
I'm worried about the slow fish starving so a few tips number one feed the fast fish first in one
corner and then drop the food for the slower fish in another corner or you can even Target feed them
right and then number two is feed foods that the fast fish don't like as much so for example you
could provide blanched vegetables to your snails and otocinclus which my meat eaters are less
likely to touch number three for nocturnal fish make sure to feed them at night or when the lights
are dimmed to make sure they're out foraging then and then number four I like to rotate so I'll do
like rotate between Flakes and Nano pellets for my top and middle dwellers and then I switch between
two types of Wafers for the bottom dwellers any tanks with babies like the shell dwellers and the
five gallon office tank they also get an extra sprinkling of easy fry and small fish food plus
I got the Shrimp King five in one sampler pack and then I just rotate between those for the
shrimp a little trick for you shrimp keepers out there I like to use a PVC pipe to slide down the
shrimp pellet into the shrimp food dish so that the crumbs won't get all embedded in between the
gravel on Thursday Friday and Saturday I just repeat the first three days by feeding Frozen,
Rapashy, and dry foods and then on Sunday well that's the Lord's day so we gotta feed a special
Sunday dinner of live baby brine shrimp so on Sunday or sorry on Saturday morning I have an
alarm set to dump in the eggs into the Hatchery and then on Sunday morning before church I harvest
them with a brine shrimp sieve rinse them out a little bit and then I use a baby spoon to scoop
them out into each tank everybody loves live baby brine shrimp and I don't have to feed a
separate food for the fry because it's already tiny enough for both the adults and babies to
eat now obviously you don't have to feed as many different foods as I do but the main takeaway is
definitely make sure you provide some variety in your fish's diet because otherwise they
may suffer from nutrient deficiencies which I actually saw with my friend Zelda's betta Gill
now if you're curious about which foods I like to feed my betta fish check out this video over here
otherwise take time to enjoy your aquariums and I'll see in the next video