Darren
02-24-2003, 10:23 PM
Hey all! This forum is great! I've spent much of my spare time the past few weeks reading the majority of all the threads...A lot of great info!!! Keep up the great work!
I saw a recent post by Joe stating you have to feed your juvie's 4-5 times per day to attain maximum growth. I am sure this is correct and I am not discounting Joe at all. However, I have this dreadful thing you call, a job :(, where I spend 1/2 of my day at and find it very difficult to feed this much, at least during the week. My feeding schedule is as follows:
Leave for work at 6:00am (in the dreaded pitch dark!) and return home around 6:00pm (in the dreaded pitch dark!). Feed once right when I get home and then the 2nd around 10:00pm, 1 hr. before the lights go out. If I am around on the weekend by all means I try to get 4-5 in. When I leave for work in the morn., all the fishy's are in a deep slumber so I don't think it would be a good time to feed due to uneaten food lying around all day. Should I feed them every hour on the hour from 6:00pm-10:00pm? That would get the 5 in but I don't think that would be too good of an idea, too much too often I would assume.....
Is there anyone else out there like me who works? How do you get 5 feedings in per day? I wish I could stay home all day and play but unfortunately that is not an option. Oh yeah, I could get my wife to feed them but that is like her asking me to put her makeup on. ??? No a good option. She is not Discus literate and does not want to learn. Also, I can't come home for lunch to feed because I work 45 minutes from my house.
I've got three new juv's and I want to give them every opportunity to achieve maximum growth. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!
Darren
I saw a recent post by Joe stating you have to feed your juvie's 4-5 times per day to attain maximum growth. I am sure this is correct and I am not discounting Joe at all. However, I have this dreadful thing you call, a job :(, where I spend 1/2 of my day at and find it very difficult to feed this much, at least during the week. My feeding schedule is as follows:
Leave for work at 6:00am (in the dreaded pitch dark!) and return home around 6:00pm (in the dreaded pitch dark!). Feed once right when I get home and then the 2nd around 10:00pm, 1 hr. before the lights go out. If I am around on the weekend by all means I try to get 4-5 in. When I leave for work in the morn., all the fishy's are in a deep slumber so I don't think it would be a good time to feed due to uneaten food lying around all day. Should I feed them every hour on the hour from 6:00pm-10:00pm? That would get the 5 in but I don't think that would be too good of an idea, too much too often I would assume.....
Is there anyone else out there like me who works? How do you get 5 feedings in per day? I wish I could stay home all day and play but unfortunately that is not an option. Oh yeah, I could get my wife to feed them but that is like her asking me to put her makeup on. ??? No a good option. She is not Discus literate and does not want to learn. Also, I can't come home for lunch to feed because I work 45 minutes from my house.
I've got three new juv's and I want to give them every opportunity to achieve maximum growth. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!
Darren