fish feeding habits/preferences

[jabberjaw]

Hi everyone,
I'd like to find out your practices and preferences when it comes to feeding your fish communities.
What sort of food do you use (pellet, flake, frozen/live, etc)?
Reason I ask, is that I have always only used live or frozen 'live' food and have backed away from the processed food due to it not seeming 'natural'.
Apart from costing a bit more to purchase and taking up quite a large part of my freezer, is there anything wrong with doing it this way? (one bonus I have found, is that I have never expereinced problems with a fish not feeding once intoduced to the tank)

thanks :goldfish:

[peasofme]

pellets and flakes till they won't eat anymore once a day. as long as its fortified i don't see a problem with frozen. and yes, fish will gobble up frozen more readily.

[jabberjaw]

thanks, tho at the moment I'm feeding my tank twice daily.. not until they won't eat anymore, but just regular small/medium feedings.... keeps everyone happy :)

[Pearl]

I feed my fish a variety of food three times a day, using the processed food (sinking pellets) as more of a supplement than a staple.

[bigwave]

Flakes 1 time a day and then frozen in the evening for most tanks.

My discus get 2 flake servings and a frozen in the evening also.

That's worked for me, but there certainly was no scientific process that went into the planning.

[jabberjaw]

I guess I'm just wondering if my fish are missing out on anything beneficial by not feeding them pellets/flakes?

[sushiray]

since I bought into Dr. F's recent frozen food sale, my spare freezer is packed also. since I have so much I feed frozen every nite to my discus juvies (now have seen some nice growth) but prior to that I fed flakes & some pellets. now I mix it up, flakes - frozen - freeze dried bloodworms.