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posted 01-03-2004 02:47 PM         

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can anyone help me i think i might be over feeding my fish i have a 5 in pacu and a 2 in albino oscar, a silver doller and a neon rainbow fish and a pleco i feed them about 3 of those cubes of bllod worms 2 times a day i feed it to them in a worm feed to try to keep in clean can anyone help maybe feeding to much?? plz any info???

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posted 01-03-2004 05:01 PM         

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I usually feed my fish as much as they will eat in about 3-5 minutes. Check the packaging of the food to see if it says how much to feed them.

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posted 01-03-2004 08:30 PM         

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Hi cops5476, You are only overfeeding if they are not eating the food. A simple but true statement-"You don't overfeed fish you overfeed a tank". What this means is that if the fish eat everything you feed them you are not overfeeding them. Any food they don't eat is overfeeding the tank (creating bacteria). In all my years of operating tanks I have had only one fish that literally overate. It was a Jewel Cichlid. He literally burst from overeating after a spawning season. This was a very rare case, and just doesn't normally happen. So feed them whatever they will eat.

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posted 01-03-2004 08:41 PM         

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hi,

you only need to feed your twice a day and no morew then two cubes a day. how big is your tank? do you only feed your fish blood worms?

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posted 01-03-2004 10:40 PM         

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thanks alot yall aye i have been feeding them only blood worms and i have lettuce for my silve dollor and pacu but they eat worms too think puting them in the worm feed it don't let them drop to the bottem though it would be better and also my oscar sure has a big belly 75 gallons i will am getting a 80 gal just for the pacu and the silve dollar and maybe one more the pacu like the silver dollor the school together since i don't have more than one thanks again

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