fish monthly food bill

[andruboz]

just testing the poll system

[goldfries]

we buy food cheaper.

[andruboz]

where?

right now i'm buying bloodworms in 40 cube packs for about $4.75 u.s. same for krill and mysis shrimp. the daily frozen feedings consist of 4 cubes of blood worms plus a few of the others. [and a few pellets and a few flakes and a few snails and a few crayfish and a few algea wafers]. who has good frozen fish chow at a good price? how much do you have to buy to not get killed in shipping cost?

[somefinnfishy]

Who's the other guy who spends like a dollar a day on his fish food:rolleyes:
I buy $3 in live blackworms or glassworms a week.
Use 2lbs flake a year from big als 2.99 1/2 lb
like 2 250g pack frozen blood worms a month @$2.99 each
1 500g frozen brine shrimp a month @5.99
to many specitaly foods for fresh and salt to mention.
Now do a new poll how much do you spend on water supliments and water treatments.
BTW I do get food cheap the $3 a week in live worms I buy is one solid cup no liquid.
I forgot feeder fish and the cost of their holding tank:eek:
I house a LOT of small fish.

[goldfries]

i buy at RM 2.50 for each tray of approx 40 cube frozen bloodworms. that's like 0.65 USD.

btw since we're talking about food, what's a good food with proteins for my fish growth?

[Rare Cichlids]

Wow, some of you guys spend a LOT on food. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I have more fish mass than most, if not all, other people, and I spend around maybe $15 a month.

[goldfries]

if i convert my spendings to USD. it would be less than 5 USD per month. er no...........wait.

[blitzen25bm]

i spend 88 cents every other day for tigershrimp for my arowana, then probably 3 dollars a month for the the oscar and a dollar a month for the barbs, livebearers and about 3 dollars a month for the koi so thats probably about 20 dollars a month but 13 of it is for the arowana. i like to feed lots of live crickets, mealworms, redworms and brineshrimp. -john

[tnlguinn]

i feed wardley shrimp pellets, hikari cichlid gold pellets, freeze dried krill, spirulina discs, rosie red feeders, live crayfish(from hte bait shop), and nightcrawlers. this is on a regular basis, and only spend $6 to $7 a month:cool:

[esox48]

I have 3 large arawana's
two soft sheld turtles
a goby I can't identify
2 dracula cats
two large bluegill
two perch.
three crayfish,
2 plecos

In winter
12-14 dozen feeders a month.
plus 250 ghost shrimp.

In summer I trap as many minnows and suckers as I can and through them in the tank. I also seine the steam bed for aquatic insects and just through them in.

Pretty cool when you get a large Dragon fly larvae and watch them catch some of the small minnows.

[AikidoGuy]

3lb box of tetra chichlid sticks $19.98
1.78lb box tetra Cichlid flakes $19.98
1lb of fresh raw jumbo shrimp $6.99
1lb raw bay scallops $4.99
1lb frozen peas .80
1lb frozen corn .80
11.xxoz Tetra Color Bits $10.50
1000 superworms $11.22
Hikari Algae wafers large bag $11.50
Wardly freeze dried plankton $4.00
Wardly shrimp pellets $4.00

i usually get 2 or three months out of a fish food shopping trip.

[beviking]

A month? You people must have some fat fish! Granted, I don't have many fish (vs. what you may have) but a can of flakes, shrimp pellets, algae discs, slow sinking crumbles and a flat of brine shrimp lasts a year! O.k., maybe not quite a year, but close! I'll have to try to figure that out. Oh, I don't count the table food (spinach, lettuce, etc...) b/c I go w/o so my fish can eat.:cool:

[karfixer]

2-7.06 oz cans of Tetra Color(monthly)+ misc. Hikiri wafers+Frozen Brine shrimp/Bloodworms. I buy the wafers and frozen in in larger quantities. The fish also get some Big Al's sinking wafers and other food that I pick up-to keep a healty varied diet.

[RENEGADE]

who pays 40+ a month!!!! i got a can of flake food and bought a 1/4 of a cup of live bloodworms for a $1 and i dont even use them all