Let’s get Matt to 100,000 before Spring! 🎉

For me, feeding your fish is payback for all the hard work youve put into your aquarium. Its so rewarding but at the same time its probably the best opportunity youve got for guaging fish and tank health

not gonna lie I actually laughed out loud at the "larger and smarter fish" into the shot of the buck toothed pufferfish. comedic timing on point

Great video Matt. Favourite Aquarium content on KZfaq. I took up the hobby about a year ago at the age of 59! I’ve learnt so much from watching you and my aquarium has been very successful as a result. Thank you 😊

This was super helpful Matt. I’ve been adjusting my feeding lately because I think I’ve been feeding a bit more than necessary. This was great information. Thank you.

My pearl gourami “dance” for food. Very cute!

Fan from the Philippines here!

Thank you for this Matt! Finally I've a video for my sister to learn how to feed my tanks while on vacation 😂 Everytime I come back there's an algae boom...

Stick on glass pellets are great for getting your mad frantic fish away from the more timid ones that dont like the commotion so you can then give another food to them. Useful if they have different diets. edit: typo

Thank you for including a link to the mini measuring scoops! I have one micro tank and measuring out everything, food, tap water conditioner, medications, etc. has been such a pain. Much love from the American fish keeping novices!

Thanks for the feeding your fish content! Now that I’ve seen this I realize I’m definitely over feeding 😮 I was worried about my Kuhli loaches not getting enough food. So thank you very much!

Love these videos Matt I have both my boys watching your videos ,as they both have started up there aquariums again and they are getting lots of help from your videos As it’s not just me telling them and giving them little tips lol Now they are both telling me things that I didn’t no they understood but thanks to you now they do

I’m so proud of you Matt

I've needed this info for SO LONG. thank you!

Great Video, even for someone without Aquarium =) Am I the only one that has to think about Korg from the MCU listening to him? =)

Stellar production quality on this one!

Thanks mat i needed this video❤

Another good video. Congratulations on surpassing 50k subscribers Matt 🎉 you will soon get your 100k play button ▶️ 😊

Nice to see you this morning Matt. Thanks for the info!😊

I just love your content . Keep it up bro !!!

Thanks for all the great info Matt ... sure enjoy learning about fish from you here and seeing you with MD on his channel.

Could you imagine if there were fish that ate glass ... LoL. You're too funny without even trying ... Love watching your videos! 🐟🐠

The only thing I would add is to feed to how energetic feeders your fish are. I have a 90 gallon mixed community tank. If I fed lightly my angels, sae's and red eyed tetras would get the lot, leaving nothing for my lemon and cardinal tetras, bristlenose, otto or corys. I feed on the heavy side, once a day, with the lot going in at once. That way it filters all the way down the water column, and everyone gets something. 5 days a week, flake or pellets, 2 days frozen, rest on the 8th day. 4 evenings a week algea wafers after dark. Once a week, some raw courgette for the bristlenose.

Thanks so much for this video!

Refreshing and solid advice. Thanks for sharing ❤

Thank you Matt that was really helpful ❤

Awesome video as always Matt

Thanks so much for this video, so much great information 😊

Great stuff! Loving the vibe

Another great video full of useful information. Bravo Matt and all the best 👍

Well done Matt for mentioning Plecos, catfish and shrimp. So Many people don't feed there bottom dwelling fish, especially plecos. I have had colleagues have fish dying from lack of food. They think alge is enough. Really like this video. 😊

Extremely useful, Matthew!! Thank you!!!!

Great video with tons of information! Thanks for sharing!!

Great vid. Nice plant wall too!

I bought a few bits from herons pet world online shop. Very good value and all my fish love it. Some are picky eaters and didn't really like any flake food from all the big brands.

Great info Matt! 😊

Another informative awesome video! ❤

I also tell customers who have 10 gazillion litres per hour filters, watch how the food travels around. If it's getting sucked in to the filter, turn them off for a few minutes while feeding. Food rotting in filters is often responsible for problems.

great advice Matt - love watching your vids I've been keeping fish on and off for a good few years, got into the hobby years ago because of my Dad and he would turn in his grave at the expense of keeping fish these days but I came on to say that in addition to dried flake etc. frozen food has its place. I have a cute little pea puffer that will not accept anything but frozen blood worm. Something I feed is cut up earthworms and the fish go mad for them, i make sure i don't give more than they can eat in one sitting to avoid any left overs fouling the water.

Great video again Matt

Great video

Thanks for these videos. I love your top.

Best thing I ever did is listen to farther fish about how to set up a tank with pond mud and feeding

Your videos are so brilliant. Thanks so much. 😊

Hi Matt, would love a Fish File video about your Kyburz tetra! Ive never seen these in the flesh Loving the content

Greetings from Scotland, useful information even for us longer term fish keepers... I have a 20cm featherfin synodontis (named Simon) in my community tank, he's happy bordering on plump... I have never seen him eat anything in the 5 years I've had him...

I'm a bit of an oldhead, so I know this info already, but I do have to visit your Tetra/festivus tank and you in videos every time I get. 😊 I really, really need to try festivus some fine day.

i had a bumblebee cat long ago. Awesome little fish

Very useful, thanks! I gave my neons and harlequin rasboras some bloodworm last night. They went crazy for them, but a couple of the neons (both female I think) overdid it and their bellies were *huge*! They looked like they might explode. Thankfully they were back to normal this morning. I think they may have stolen from other fish, as I only dropped the worms in one at a time, enough for one apiece. Also one of my cherry shrimp sucked a bloodworm clean - something I didn't think would happen! Anyway, loving your videos - I'm new to the hobby with my first tank.

Thanks so much ❤. Just what `I needed. I now have a set of “drop, tad, pinch” spoons and can feed properly. I’ve been battling a cloudy tank and it’s obvious now that I’ve been overfeeding. Thank you I 🎉🎉🎉

Fish will find a snack if they want it. I have a female guppy who will literally grab small bladder snails and slurp them right out of the shell! And the secret to not overfeeding and keeping clear water for me is keeping a very light bio load keeping lots of detrivores, snails and shrimp will keep your plants algae free and pick up any stray food and fish poop.

thanks for the video man

Thank you Matt for some helpful information ❤from🇦🇺

Matt holy shit thank you I was literally just wondering this last night.

Great Show , great info . ,,,,, All the best to you , i have so many questions lol ... take care

I feed mine with a pinch of flake and a pinch of daphnia every 2 days so around 3 times a week

Really informative.

I feed my fish a mix of hikari pallets for tetras and for discus, sera insect granules and tetra tropical fish mixed food. Some of it floats some of it sinks, some of it is small some it is big. It varies all the time how much they get of what. The discus pallets sink fast and my bumblebee catfish and corydoras love it. And once in a while frozen food like bloodworms and beefheart. Also i dont feed regularly. One time a few days in a row and than i skip one or two days This makes them go around scavaging in the tank.

Thank for the info👍✨💖

I feed my fish mainly Dr. Bassleer and most pots come with spoons. Except when it´s tablets or shrimp sticks. All the granular foods come with spoons. The spoons are so handy!

Great video Matt! It's good to know, from listening to your advice, that I'm feeding my fish just right with a variety of foods. The plecs luurve a slice of cucumber!

😱😍👍 Thanks for all the helpful information. Love this channel! 🤩😁👍

Matt , I miss more videos from the shop...Would you record some in the near future?

Hey Matt, lovely video. Can you do a video on lighting? Light levels, timers, how long to have lights on, best types of lighting etc…

Thanks for detailing the various aspects of feeding. The only variant path I have had to chose is with my large cichlid tank. I have red devils which only take pellets and no frozen food which is fine, but I have an Oscar and to a lesser extent a jag that wont touch pellets, only cichlid flake food. For sometime when he was small, he was hardly growing which is unusual for an Oscar but then I started to notice how selective he was with food. Once I started feeding frozen food (like raw fillets, prawns, mussels) he started growing much quicker.) To be honest i would prefer to feed frozen food less (like what you suggested in the video) but I guess you have to cater for distinct situations sometimes.

Variety is the spice of life. I feed about 4 different types of food to our fish. Large flakes, pellets large & small & tiny, dehydrated brine shrimp & tubifex worms, algae wafers for the bottom. We feed a nice pinch in the morning & again a few hours before lights off. Filters stay clean & no algae or yuck.

New sub here, great videos Matt. Have you tried Omega One dries food before? I wish they told it in the UK!

What a brilliant video. specifically started looking for tiny pellets when i bought my chili rasboras. aiming for about 2 pellets per fish per day. give or take... have some shrimp in there too. works fine for now.

What about live feeding Matt? Could you give us a view on perhaps raising your own cultures of feed?

On a semi-related note, what do you do when a fish goes after the "wrong" food? (As an example, a carnivorous fish going after algae wafer.)

Matt can you teach us about discus. Thanks

I find MDs tap tap works really well for feeding. You dont need to bash the tank hard- a couple of soft taps is all thats needed. and my fish come out of all their hiding places coz they know its time for food! They learn it super quick from the others- within days my baby guppies have learnt it from the adults and peek out. Then as you said- you can evaluate your fish health. I don't feed every single day though. I use a micro granule for tropical fish from a local aquarium shop and grind it smaller between my fingers for my smaller fish like bub guppies, endlers and nano raspora. then every other feeding give them some tropical flake instead (I break it up a bit). They do really well on the granule. The bristlenoses usually get an algae wafer- the shrimp love these as well. I mix that up with shrimp pellets and sinking catfish pellets (for cories etc) for some variety for the bottom dwellers, plus the shrimp happily hunt down any fish food in there. The guppies also chase and eat the sinking pellets. Seems to give them a good variety and they seem happy and healthy with nice colours and no issues that ive seen. Once every week/ 2 weeks I give them some frozen food, daphnia atm, for something different. note- I tip my food into the lid or my hand then pour it in the tank- just in case it all comes out at once! If I go away for more than a couple days, I measure out what is needed into little containers, write the day and tank on them (they are placed in front of the appropriate tank), then my visiting friend knows all she has to do is tip that containers worth in- no guessing what they need etc. As a side note we get a lot of evaporation from the open tanks so I also plastic wrap the open tanks with a few air holes so she doesnt have to worry about additional maintenance, with a bucket of water ready at room temp just in case she needs to top up (hasnt been needed yet).

Could you do species video on Clown plecos? I have one and only see him once every 2 weeks at best 😆 but I have always wondered about food etc as you never see him at feeding time

As always enjoyed your video. Do you have a video on low maintenance, no water change aquarium?

Hello Matt I recently bought full spectrum light for my juwel trigon I am wondering will it be sufficient enough for low tech plants like Java fern etc 18 wattage light

Matt, could you help on a matter of holiday feeding. We plan a weeks break and there is nothing that I can see that is suitable for top, middle and bottom feeders all in one tank. Not in a position to purchase automatic feeders as I have a number of tanks. Could you offer any advice please. Many thanks, John

Talking about feeding. I see you have dwarf water lettuce. Mine are growing very, very slow. Not dying, just slow. My crypt parva is growing quicker. And that plant is next level slow. The Amazon frog bite is doing fine. Maybe make a detailed video about how to grow them properly.

Thank you so much for the amazing content!! You’ve been amazing inspiration! I now have a 240l Roma scaped and a nano cube “Shrimp Mountain” scaped!! I must not buy more tanks I must not buy more tanks…😂

Hey Matt, great information. I have been using two different types of "Repashy" fish food. Soilent greens and Grub Pie for the past maybe 8 years. Have amazing results. Have you ever tried them? The soilent green is like crack for my mbuna

I absolutely love your Snow White bristlenose. I’ve got a group of 6 on order at my lfs, so hopefully I can start growing them out for breeding soon. Have you noticed anything different with care for them than the regular bristlenose? I’ve read that some people think they’re more sensitive.

Best food for discus? Mine unfortunately don't take pellets so i have to give them frozen blood worm cubes or goat heart mix cubes

Nice video, I like your spin on these subjects. It can def be more in depth than a lot of other topics. It’s def my favorite of the fish keeping hobby. It is worth noting that prepared foods are def not higher quality than say Live or Frozen though. It’s no different for humans or dogs either. The more Whole Foods we eat the healthier we are, the less processed food we eat, the healthier we are. So while pellets and flakes are more convenient, there is no way they’re healthier than a variety of frozen foods.

Not me having this conversation with you a couple weeks back 😂 … Oh and I’ve cut the guppies feed down and they still aren’t eating their young 😭🙈 ah well… anyone want some gorgeous coloured guppy juveniles? 😬

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Excellent vid Matt. Thanks for answering the ago old question how much/often to feed. One question when you say eyeball are you talking just what you can see ie the flat bit or do you mean the whole sphere? TIA😊💙🐡🐠🐟

Gr8 detailed video... For every fish keepers.. One question# Which feed is best for rainbow fish (daily meal).. Please guide with brand name... Available brands around my place are hikari, Tetra, WA n other Chinese brands

I want to see your book shelf!

Idk how much to feed my fish and shrimp. But when I feed em nothing is left. No matter how much I feed. The shrimp have a hiarcy like ants. As soon as the food touches the bottom or plants the shrimp will swarm it, the larger shrimp chase after my fish. I think there's thousands in there

Not a quetion related to fish feeding but i thought u might see this and possibly have a answer. If trim 1 or a couple leaves from my amazon sword will it help it maybe grow a little faster?

Both my tanks are very heavily planted with large communities of different fish, shrimp and snails, so overfeeding, underfeeding and some in the tanks missing out is a constant worry to me... my water usually tests okay and I don't get any fish losses so I must be almost right....

Great video. What are those cube things you have at the front corner of your tank? Decorations?

Hey Matt, great video as always. I would like to know what's your opinion on tubifex worms. I don't really have many options to buy live food. I have an batch of 3 months old fry of apistogramma cacatoides and been feeding them bbs, decapsulated bbs, and after first month or so also dry foods like first bites, krill and artemia flakes. However I would like to give them more variety, so I was thinking about the tubifex, I can order it online in small bags. I have tried it and fry seems to love it. But I am still kinda afraid 😅

its amazing how much more concise your videos are than MD's, lol. i plan on building a paludarium in the future with some shrimp and nano fish in the water section. would you recommend a shrimp specific food, or would the biofilm and left over nanofish food that sinks be enough for them?

Over feeding can cause clogged hang on filter problems also

Mine don't go near the micro crumb, they much prefer bug bites. I try to feed once every two days. Cheers for the video Matt

Hey Matt! what type of gloves are safe to wear cleaning an aquarium?

I do not believe my endlers, they're always acting like they're starving. They'll beg with their full tummies minutes after I fed them 😂

Great content. Just took up fish keeping last month and can across your videos shortly after. One question I had that I didn’t hear you cover was feeding specifically for crayfish, do you let them just clean the tank or can you put something directed for their diet ?

MATT, should i turn filter off while feeding, still water or moving water????

Hi Matt, what about african cichlids.