My fish are eating too much?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Pumpkin
  • Start date Start date
P

Pumpkin

Guest
I feed my fish twice a day. Flakes in the morning for my mollies and silver dollars, then at night I feed all my bottom feeders. My bottom feeders are 2 albino corydoras, 2 ghost shrimp, and a common pleco. The problem is my mollies and silver dollars will take their food and eat it all! My silver dollars pick up the algae wafers and move them to the other side of the tank and will consume the whole thing, while my other fish can't find their food, and my mollies will eat all the shrimp pellets. I think my cory cats get enough, but do you think my pleco is?

Any suggestions on how to make sure the pig fish don't over-eat and my other fish get enough to eat?
 
How about feeding them both at the same time? =] Like the bottom feeders and the other fish. =]

What you could also do is turn off the lights and drop the wafer right next to the pleco. That way the other fish won't see it.

You could also try and confuse your top dwelling fish. Clip a lettuce leaf to the side of the tank. The top dwelling fish will go for it and while they're distracted, feed the bottom feeders. =]
 
Back
Top