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- From: frazier@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Gregory Frazier)
- Subject: Re: (All) How much fish should beg
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:40:26 GMT
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- Larisa Stephan (larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com) wrote:
- : Howdy, all.
- : I have two silver mollies in a "five gallon" (really holds more like three
- : gallons) hex tank which I set up about a week ago. Now that they've gotten
- : accustomed to the arrangements, they will beg for food every time they see
- : a human in front of their tank.
- : If I put in a pinch of food, they will eat it all up expeditiously, even if
- : I just gave them one an hour before. I have yet to see flake food go uneaten
- : by these two!
- :
- : The question: how much should I be feeding them?
-
- The rule people like to quote is to never feed fish more than they
- will consume w/in 5 minutes. I can't imagine putting enough food
- in a tank to keep fish busy for five minutes. When I feed flake food,
- I generally put in only so much as the fish will consume in 1/2 - 1
- minute, 2x a day. Yes, fish are no fools and will beg for more, but
- at least they don't whine like our cats do.
-
- : I wonder if one or both
- : could be pregnant, in which case I don't want to starve her, but I also don't
- : want to fatten them overly. (I don't know how to sex mollies, so I can't
- : even say if there's a potential for either to be pregnant.) Whaddya say?
-
- If they are not fed enough to produce fry, they won't produce
- fry. Don't worry about it.
-
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- Greg Frazier frazier@CS.UCLA.EDU !{ucbvax,rutgers}!ucla-cs!frazier
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