Damsels eating too much.

[kingtoad]

My Damsels always seem like they're starving. I cut up a cube of brine shrimp in quarters and give them a quarter of it, since they are small I wouldn't think they could eat the whole thing. However, throughout the day they seem hungry. Eating specs of stuff floating in the water and spitting it out, it even looks like they're eating stuff off the live rock. Then at night when I throw another peice in, they're ravaging the brine shrimp 1/4th cube like crazy. Should I up their dosage?

 

[Andrew]

He must not be getting enough food but the worse thing you could do is overfeed. btw, I only feed a cube of brine mixed with a few other things to my 4 chromis, 2 clownfish, and royal gramma in my 75 and they are fat and healthy.

 

[kingtoad]

So, should I just continue my feeding routine how it is now? A half cube a day. A quarter in the morning and a quarter at night. Or is this too much?

They always seem like they're starving.

Btw, there are two Damsels. The only two fish in the tank.

 

[Blown 346]

Fish do not need to eat several times a day, or even once a day. Fish will constantly eat, they will literally eat until they kill themselves. I feed my fish every other day, this is mainly to cut down on nutrients and organics in the water.
Fish will graze and pick here and there all the time. You dont have to feed them everyday, they wont starve, they can go without food for about a week and be ok.

 

[Andrew]

Is he fairly large in the stomach? If so then no. I have a devil damsel that when I walk in the room, he always going twards the top of the tank and wants food. Hes feed once a day also.

 

[NCreefwannabe]

Yeah my cousins damsel will eat all day if you let him

 

[kingtoad]

Thanks for the info, all.