1. Feed your fish only what they can eat in 2 minutes. Offer small meals twice daily for small fish, and feed larger carnivorous fish every other day. Reduce food if it sinks, unless target-feeding bottom dwellers.
2. Feed your fish a species-appropriate diet. Herbivores need algae wafers or plant-based food, while carnivores require high-protein diets. Color-enhancing foods can boost their natural vibrancy.
3. In new reef tanks, feed daily. In established tanks with plankton or copepods, feeding every few days may work, but watch out, fish can quickly deplete those natural food sources.
4. Feed when fish are most active. Use foods sized for their mouths. Most catfish and loaches eat at night and need sinking food. Schooling fish like tetras feed during the day.
5. Easy access is key. Bottom-dwellers should be fed items that sink, fish that feed from the surface should be fed floating foods, and slow-sinking pellets are ideal for fish that occupy the middle level of the tank.
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