So a video you guys wanted to see was a feeding video when I decided we're gonna feed all of the fish however
We're just gonna be feeding them what they are going to eat today
I feed a very diet and it varies from day to day, and we're gonna talk about that
I want to show you types of food that I'm feeding why I'm feeding it of course how much and how often let's start with
The Tropheus aquarium. The Tropheus you guys will remember are Tropheus Ikola, a lake
tanganyikan
Fish there's about 20 or 25 in there right now
And that is a colony that's now starting to become more and more established and some of the males are becoming
more apparent
It does look like I have a nice balance of 1 to 5 meaning one male to have five females
With that said I should probably interrupt this video
I know that you guys want a complete breakdown of
Every tank that I have and lots of information about each individual fish
So you guys do want to see that let me know in the comment section below, or simply give me a thumbs up?
And I'll know that way back to the tropheus
These guys are a herbivoric fish for the most part
And if you don't give them what they need they can develop things like bloat which can eventually kill them.
So you want to be very
Careful with these fish one of the key things with these guys is to make sure that they are in an established aquarium.
Usually that will give you more
Successive simply because they do have some algae to graze on so I don't really do a whole lot of maintenance on this aquarium although it
Does look really clean it certainly isn't there is algae on almost everything, but they do pick away at it
now these guys are only fed twice a day. I feed them a herbivore diet mainly basing it off of
Plants like spirulina, so I make sure like the number one ingredient is typically spirulina
And I'll feed them a flake or even a pellet at time sometimes a combination of both. Brands doesn't really matter
So I'm not gonna get into brands in this video
I just kind of pay attention to what the actual ingredients
Are the size of the food and the texture based off what the fish needs. Now
I should also mention that when I'm feeding all pumps are shut off
I don't want any of the food getting sucked down to the filter, and I leave them off or are usually about thirty minutes
I let the fish consume the food from anywheres from five to ten minutes if they can't eat it all in that amount
Time usually I'm feeding too much however
with some of these tanks
There are some less dominant fish that do not get to the food in time so at times
I will over feed the aquarium, so they can get some as well
Tropheus are always a fun food fish to feed though. I do try to feed them a pelletized food, however
I mix it up day to day
Just to make sure they're accepting anything
I offer and now I prefer pellets over flakes simply because pellets are like a far more
condensed state than flakes
but flakes are a little bit more easier to
Digest and faster eating so it kind of depends on the fish that you're keeping let's move up to the malawi fish up above is
the lake malawi
peacocks it has a number of different types of male peacocks with a heavy concentration of
OB peacocks, I must admit I do like them a lot, so well. There's a lot in there
These guys get a very similar diet to the tropheus. However, they don't depend largely on a
Vegetable matter diet. However today, I offered them some spirulina based foods
but for the most part
I will feed them something more omnivorous that has a nice amount of protein content in it as well upwards of about 30% protein
Content. These guys can be predators, but they do need some
Vegetable matter in their diets as well, and I like to feed them foods that have lots of color
Enhancing in it like astaxanthin for example
That's a very popular color enhancer in fish foods. these guys eat once a day, and I usually feed them
pellets pellets because
Again, they only need to eat a few pellets each and those pellets will expand in their bellies of course once they become wet
And they fatten up quite easily I do find also that I control their
aggression by only feeding once a day at the exact same time
Every single day which brings up a point of when do I actually feed? Usually I feed them at
"Noontime". Noon being their "noon" not our noon. See as fish keepers
we control everything about our aquariums including their lifecycles and the lighting cycles and the
Metabolisms and so forth so noon time for them is pretty much 4 o'clock in the afternoon for me
Their lights come on in a certain time and go off at a certain time but noon is always noon to them
right beside them is that rainbow aquarium that we just recently set up now these guys will eat just about anything I feed them a
variety of foods from flakes to pellets to frozen foods like brine shrimp or
Mysis or even some krill, things like that and they'll eat pretty much anything these guys eat twice a day as well
Twice a say simply because there's so many in there. I want to make sure that everybody's getting something to eat
Now it does look like in these videos that I'm over feeding but with the pump still on it blows the food around and
distributes it a lot more evenly throughout the aquarium so all the fish have an
Opportunity to get some plus it keeps the food in motion almost triggering their
Instinct to chase after that food and eat it making it more acceptable typically
Rainbows get more of a tropical diet like something that is a bit more
Commonly used for almost all fish like community fish diets, which has a little bit of everything in there for them
And they do quite well on that the Uaru aquarium
This is one of my favorite tanks because it means so much to me
And it's also one of my most naturally looking aquariums, in my opinion and a few others have mentioned that as well. These guys
The Uaru cichlid is largely a herbivore. It will eat your plants if you put them in there
It doesn't matter what they are in fact sometimes, I feed them romaine lettuce they love that but for the most part
I will also feed that tank a variety of food simply because there's two different types of fish in there requiring two different diet
requirements. Those king tetras are
community type fish that do require plant as well as protein diet, but the Uaru, they can eat plant or
more of a meaty diet like protein based
But that's going to have a huge impact on their coloration as adults to get that awesome
Contrast you do want to feed more of a heavily plant-based diet
But today I fed them a mixture of pellets, granules, and flakes a combination of spirulina flakes some
Community granules and of course some cichlid pellets. This gives everybody an opportunity to have some and it's a mixed diet
But I also like feeding these guys
Some frozen foods every once in a while not necessarily too often though. The angel fish aquarium probably one of the more easier
Aquariums to feed because they'll eat almost anything I offer, but given the fact that angel fish have such a tiny mouth
We have to keep that into consideration as well
We can't feed the big cichlid pellets because they simply can't eat them, but today
They got a mixture of frozen foods including some brine shrimps mysis shrimp and of course a little bit of krill
Angelfish tend to do best on a mixed diet more protein based
These guys only eat once a day. There's lots in there. There's about 25 or
28 angels something like that and
Because of their high bio load. I don't want to overfeed that aquarium, so I'm very cautious with it again
I'm only feeding them once a day at 12 o'clock a lot of people feed their fish two and three times a day a lot
Of the times it's over feeding them. It's creating other waste, they don't necessarily need it if your fish are healthy and exhibit
Proper body form and shape and they're not skinny or anything like that you're probably feeding enough, but after that it's usually way
Too much, that's for the discus well these guys all my discus have always gotten my homemade foods
I've shown you guys how to make this several times in the past
I just snap off a few pieces after it's been frozen and drop them in as time goes by that food will defrost and
They can pick it apart a little bit more easier. However, there's 16 discus in there there used to be some
Cardinal tetras I've removed the Cardinals because for me it was just a personal thing
They were taking away from the discus my eyes were always watching the Cardinals as opposed to the discus
And I want it to be a discus aquarium. I know some people won't like that
But I don't know I just preferred just the discus only especially in like six to eight months from now when they get a lot
Larger it's gonna be far more impressive
The food that I'm feeding though is heavily protein diets consisting of some beef heart,
shrimp, tilapia, scallops,
And a little bit of astaxanthin powder
But you could also add in
Paprika to help with the oranges like these guys are getting now because they will be a red orange color eventually
Those guys only eat once a day as well and the benefit to feeding this food
Is that if they ever breed in that aquarium the adults are already eating it so I can continue to feed that but the juvenile
fry that will eventually
Be in that aquarium potentially will eat that food as well so I can wean them off their parents really easily
And that's how I had a lot of success with breeding discus in the past
The last aquarium on this rack that currently has fish in it is the Asian aquarium now
We haven't gone over a lot of details on this tank in fact
I haven't actually really showed it at all and we'll have to go through a detailed explanation
eventually like we have through all the rest of them, but the main fish in this aquarium are a
handful of pearl gourami as well as
Harlequin rasboras and some Dario Dario now this aquarium is
Still something that I've changed a few times. I'm not completely satisfied with it
But feeding it is still fun and these guys got the same thing that the angelfish got earlier
I do find that they enjoy it and it allows all of the fish to get a little bit because there's so many different mouth
Sizes within that aquarium. This is a good diet for them, but how usually I'll feed
Different types of community type foods like some flake foods and very small pellet foods and granules
And they'll eat those as well day to day varies out here
Moving along we get to Frank's tank. Now Frank begins his day off with some flower horn pellets
I just drop a small handful in there, and he'll eat them all that'll fill his belly up
But we'll come back to this aquarium later because we feed it another food later on in the day as well
As for the 375 you guys will remember, this is a newly established aquarium with a ton of
Clown loaches. We got 50 large clown loaches as well as I believe it's 17
Vieja, there's three different species in there. I start that tank off with some cichlid pellets
Just because I know the vieja will eat them first and that kind of fills them up and allows the other foods that I'm gonna
Be offering to get down to the clown loaches. However if the clown loaches are hungry enough
They will come up and eat the pellets like they do for me usually
And then I decided to give them a treat today
So they got the brine shrimp krill as well as the mysis shrimp that the angels as well as the Asian tank got as well
Again, this looks like I'm feeding a tremendous amount of food, but they consume it all and return pumps are shut off
So it's not like it's getting sucked down to the filter polluting the aquarium
The stingray tank I feed this aquarium twice a day.For the Asian Arowana I start them off with some
arowana sticks.
This is a prepared food that you could purchase. I feed it for a couple of reasons. One is to ensure that they eat
Whatever I offer. I want to keep them on a prepared diet as well as a homemade diet and getting your arowana on anything
But live can be difficult so having all four of my Asian
Arowana eating prepared food as well as homemade food is kind of a big deal
So I don't want to ruin that for them. They do enjoy the pelletize food
it offers lots of color enhancers and kind of just ensures that they're getting whatever they want and
Then of course we come back and feed them the homemade food that I've shown you guys how to prepare in the past and this
Contains some fresh market shrimp. We've got some tilapia fillet in there or filet
we've got some scallops in there and and that's pretty much all that rounds out that diet and
That is a very fresh diet to be able to offer your fish is to know exactly
What's in that and know that you know a lot of the times,
We look at the top three ingredients of what's in a fish food. The rest are kind of fillers and color enhancers I
Focus on the top three for this tank and give them kind of what is the best. But the rays
Absolutely love it, the arowana will eat it as well. However depending on the
Time of day that I'm feeding these guys these guys usually eat earlier in the morning when the lights are a little dimmer. The arowana
Will strike harder, but when I have all the lids off and bright light shining down?
And then I'm starting to film a lot of the times the Arowana won't perform for us
So keep that in mind when watching these guys eat
Anyways feeding the whole gallery takes about 30 to 35 minutes, and that includes defrosting some foods getting it all ready
But I do it once a day and that's part of my maintenance routine of course
I have to still take care of everything in here
And that's something that I'll do for you guys in the near future is make a video on how I take care of the over
4,000 gallons of water within this gallery. And 4,000 gallons isn't a tremendous amount of water if it's only one or two tanks
Really cuz you're only focusing on one or two tanks
But when it's 13 different large aquariums that all have different needs that can become a little unique
And if you guys want to see that video let me know in the comments section below. Anyways,
Hope you guys enjoy today's video, and if you join me this coming Sunday
I think I'm gonna be ready to show you the scape for the saltwater aquarium if I get it ready in time