Feed the fish
A pet that neither makes a sound nor comes to meet you is easy to forget, and at the same time fish are sensitive to both too little and too much food. The pictures below make the task clear in amount and timing, so responsibility can be shared without miscounting.
♀Feed the fish
A girl sprinkles fish food into an aquarium with three orange fish.
About this visual support
Fish are among the pets that demand the most routine and the least attention. They do not bark, they do not settle in your lap, and so nothing reminds you that they need something. At the same time the margin for error is small: too much food clouds the water, too little is not noticed for several days.
Visual support turns the amount into a picture instead of a feeling. One picture showing how much food goes in, one showing when it happens and one showing whose turn it is makes the task possible to hand over to a child. Whoever feeds no longer has to judge, only to compare.
A concrete tip is to use a small measure instead of pinches. A measure gives the same amount every time regardless of who holds it, and it removes the most common cause of overfeeding. In Routined the feeding can sit as a daily reminder with a picture, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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