Too much frozen food?

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

I am aiming to increase the variety of the diets of both of my set up tanks and was planning to feed this to my 3rd tank as well, when it gets set up.

Monday: 1 meal of mussels, 2 meals of pellets/flakes.
Tuesday: 1 meal of mysis, 2 meals of pellets/flakes.
Wednesday: 1 meal of bloodworms, 2 meals of pellets/flakes.
Thursday: 1 meal of brine shrimp, 2 meals of pellets/flakes.
Friday: 1 meal of tubifex worms, 2 meals of pellets/flakes.
Saturday: 1 meal of mussels, 1 meal of mysis, 1 meal of bloodworms.
Sunday: 1 meal of brine shrimp, 1 meal of tubifex worms, 1 meal of pellets/flakes.

This makes for a total of 10/21 weekly meals, or a bit less than half of weekly meals, consisting of frozen food. But as the title says, could there be too much frozen food in this plan compared to the usual pellets/flakes? Or is the variety sufficient for these meals to be balanced?

 

[FJB]

I feel one can’t begin to evaluate this without additional information:
For what kind of fish? Clearly this must be for mainly carnivorous fish. In what developmental stage (adults, versus growing young ones). What else is in the tank (plants, snails, substratum)?

Comparing with my own feeding regime, and other than weekday daily hangings of seaweed, I only feed once a day, and only four days per week, so seemingly a lot less.

 

[tlindsey]

I feel one can’t begin to evaluate this without additional information:
For what kind of fish? Clearly this must be for mainly carnivorous fish. In what developmental stage (adults, versus growing young ones). What else is in the tank (plants, snails, substratum)?

Comparing with my own feeding regime, and other than weekday daily hangings of seaweed, I only feed once a day, and only four days per week, so seemingly a lot less.

+1

 

[Stephen St.Clair]

You have very lucky fish. I doubt the high protein diet is hurting anything, unless being fed to strict herbivores.
In fact your feeding regime is probably beneficial.
You might consider reversing your current food pyramid to a primarily quality pellet & flake food w/ frozen meaty foods being secondary.
Chances are your fish will continue to thrive & you'll have a little extra money to buy more fish. Lol.

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

We need more information. To me this looks like to much food for any frequently kept fish.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

In regards to the information requested, this is indeed geared towards carnivorous/insectivorous/molluscivorous fish. More specifically, the bulk of it is several types of loaches, with Siamese fighting fish, pictus catfish. and neon/green neon tetras as well.
Specifics on what this will be fed to are in my signature.

All of the loaches (with the possible exceptions of the dwarf chain loaches and kuhli loaches) are going to be quite young (very broadly in the range of 25-50% adult size, based on both the present sizes of the ones I already have and the sizes my aquarium store sells them). 5/6 of the pictus catfish are going to be rather young (7 cm compared to 13 cm adult size), the tetras are of assorted sizes from about 60% grown to full grown, and the fighting fish may or may not be full grown (it's about 6 cm compared to the usual adult size of 7.5 cm, but it is a plakat, which may mean length is misleading).

Plants are slated to be pothos and other similar houseplants in the duo of 473s, and I'm aiming to do something with them more or less falling in line with what duanes has put together. The 110 liter is going to have Java fern, Java moss, and Amazon sword with an overall comparable planting density to this.

Substrate is sand for all 3.

There are no snails in any of the tanks as they would become loach food. But you've given me an idea by mentioning snails: to feed some to my loaches on a regular basis once I can find a supply of good snails.

To FJB: Your feeding regime is interesting in the once a day, 4 times a week except weekday seaweed. Specifically, even though it is being fed to silver dollars (which eat a lot more plant matter than the fish species I intend on feeding the listed diet to), yet the more plant matter fish eat, the more often they have to eat compared to meat-eating fish.
Makes me wonder if my feeding regime is excessive. I usually go by the 3 times a day and as much as the fish can eat in 30 seconds to a minute rule of thumb, but it may have been outlined with omnivorous to herbivorous-leaning fish in mind instead of carnivorous fish.

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

Personally I would cut down to 1 meal a day rotating the different types
So something like

Monday: 1 meal pellets/flakes.
Tuesday: 1 meal of mysis,
Wednesday: 1 meal of blood worms
Thursday: 1 meal of pellets/flakes.
Friday: 1 meal of tubifex worms,
Saturday: 1 meal of mussels,

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Thanks for the advice. That does at least fall in line with carnivores needing less, and malnutrition shouldn't be an issue since as Stephen St. Clair points out, thee foods are quite hgh in protein.
I'll be giving it a shot.

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

Really just monitor and feed more or less as needed

 

[Stephen St.Clair]

Botia Loaches will grow just fine on quality sinking pellets. My Modestas have grown huge eating only Omega One Cichlid pellets, NLS pellets & flakes.
Never fed them frozen food.