{"topic_id":"exotic_nutrition_fish_feeding_ratio","category":"exotic-pet-nutrition","context":"---\ntopic_id: \"exotic_nutrition_fish_feeding_ratio\"\ncategory: \"exotic-pet-nutrition\"\ntitle: \"Ornamental fish feeding ratio & frequency — RSPCA (paraphrased)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"RSPCA pet fish diet advice — non-Open-Access welfare-organisation source; paraphrased derived summaries per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3.\"\nsource_file: [\"pdf-raw/exotic-c-2026/rspca_fish_diet.txt\"]\ndate_parsed: \"2026-08-05\"\nrecovered: false\nauthority_tier: T4\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T4:welfare-org\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-05\nmethod: paraphrase\nlicense: paraphrase\ncitation:\n  authority: \"RSPCA\"\n  title: \"Ornamental fish feeding ratio & frequency (RSPCA pet fish diet advice)\"\n  url: \"https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/fish/diet\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-05\"\n  needs_review: false\npath: exotic-pet-nutrition/exotic_nutrition_fish_feeding_ratio/01_exotic_nutrition_fish_feeding_ratio.md\n---\n\n# Ornamental fish feeding ratio & frequency — RSPCA (paraphrased)\n\nSource: RSPCA pet-fish diet advice, copyrighted. Per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3, paraphrased derived fact summaries: numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten.\n\n## Claims (derived summary — method: paraphrase)\n\n- Feed only as much as the fish can eat within two to five minutes, and avoid overfeeding, because leftover food harms water quality.\n- Feed fish two or three times a day rather than just once a day, so they learn the feeding routine.\n- Tropical fish need daily feeding.\n- It is better to underfeed than to overfeed, because fish are more susceptible to poor water quality than to a lack of food.\n- Daphnia (water fleas) and brine shrimp are an excellent frozen supplement for tropical fish, but only small amounts should be given to goldfish because of their high protein content.\n","sources":["exotic-pet-nutrition — Ornamental fish feeding ratio & frequency (RSPCA pet fish diet advice) (retrieved 2026-08-05)"],"source":{"authority":"exotic-pet-nutrition","title":"Ornamental fish feeding ratio & frequency (RSPCA pet fish diet advice)","url":"https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/fish/diet","retrieved":"2026-08-05","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"","verification_file":"[\"pdf-raw/exotic-c-2026/rspca_fish_diet.txt\"]"},"source_document":"","source_file":"[\"pdf-raw/exotic-c-2026/rspca_fish_diet.txt\"]","trust":{"authority_tier":"T4","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":110,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}