Fasting Your Fish

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sandnuka

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I have always fasted my fish, and had nothing but great response from it..... I have a schedule, one day a week I will do 1 day fast... then every other week I do a two day fast.... This I found gets them allot more energy, also they eat allot better, and we all know that means bigger healthier fish!
I would like to know how many others have a fasting schedule, what it is, and what are the results?
 
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Anonymous

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I feed twice a day 5 days a week 1 time on the 6th day and fast on the 7th. Every month I go for 3 days solid without feeding. I think it keeps activity level high and metabolism's in check. I agree with you completely.
 
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regan24

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I agree as well! ESPECIALLY my puffer, oh man can that boy eat and eat! He was getting SO fat, I slowed it down to once every other day, and then once every two days. Then again, he refuses to eat anything but bloodworms lol. Fatty. But now I feed maximum once a day. My fish are happier and DEFINITELY able to move around more. :D
 
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Anonymous

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My guys fast when I forget to feed them.

Or Saturday..they don't eat on Saturday.
 
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CrashSmAshley

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My guys get fasted one day a week (which is also their water change day) and then the next day I give them some kind of vegetable based food (peas, garlic, spirulina flake etc.) to kind of clean out their digestive tract :D
 
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PeaceOnEarth

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"I give them some kind of vegetable based food (peas, garlic, spirulina flake etc.) to kind of clean out their digestive tract"
How do you give your garlic or peas...whole? and how many?
Good info, TY everyone, never heard of fasting fish...I guess they go hungry in nature at times, and yes, that's what is afflicting Americans, is lack of opportunity to fast...maybe it's good for fish too.
 
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sandnuka

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Everything I have read, and every breeder I have talked to have told me to fast itleast 1 day a week.... You will get healthier fish, they will be more active, and breed more often.... well itleast this is what Ive heard/read.
All my fish currently are herbavores... so there on a vege/spirulina diet everyday anyway.... in order to change it up, I try to add a lettuce leaf, or cucumber, but they never eat it, and begins to rot. Soooo, I just stick with pellet, flake, and the occasional fasting.
 
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Doza

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Try this if the dont eat all their vegies.. you need to make your own food.. I usually mix in what ever i have laying around and whatever i find..

Get your blender and i figure anything that is good for us is good for them... The only thing i could see is anything stringy or anything you would think would bind them up..

I have used:
seaweed...( rinse it off good... Never have used seaweed bulbs just the thin lettuce like stuff)
Peas
Spinach
lettuce.. (Dont use iceburg)
cucumber
garlic
ect

Throw it into a blender and blend it up into a puree. You will probably have to mix in some water...
You could also add in some vitamin supplements and what not.. I have heard of products for fish

Boil some hot water and mix in plain unflavored gelatin like you were making Jello.. then put in your prepared mixture into the dissolved gelatin and pour into a flat cooking sheet or something and put into the fridge and wait till it hardens


You can latter cut into serving sizes and wrap them with Reynolds wrap and freeze them up

I also boil some cichlid pellets to soften them and put that in on the last step..
The pellets are red and i noticed it helps attract them to eat it.. And they get a little bit of protein in the pellets..

Thats how i get my mbunas to eat all their veggies.
 
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hbluehunter

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For me i feed regular Sunday thru Thursday, 60% waterchange on Friday (No Feeding Friday) Lightly feed on Saturday.. Seems to work for me and i've been doing it for a couple years now..
 
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