Feeding my tank

[MrRoo]

In my tank I have:
Fish-
2 False Perculas
1 Six Line Wrass
1 Yellow Tang
1 Diamond Goby

Inverts-
Various snails
Various Hermits
2 RBTA
1 GBTA

Coral-
2 Zoos
1 Sinularia

For my fish I use to always feed them Ocean Nutrition Formula 1 mixed with Ocean Nutrition Reef flakes in the morning and the same mix plus Mysis shrimp soaked in garlic at night and they ate like pigs. I started reading how people fed their fish mixed meat foods so I went and bought some squid, silversides, and krill and cut some up and put some in the tank and fish don't eat it. Even my Six Line Wrass just picked at it once and then let it go. My Diamond goby put it in his mouth and then just spit it back out and ignored it. Are my fishies going to be ok on just a flake diet?

For my anemones I feed the krill and squid and they seem to like it, but how much do I feed? My anemones are all 4-8" and I feed them 1 krill every 2-3 days, is that enough? Should I feed them some squid as well? My clowns do not host in my anemones but they did attach and eat some squid floating around that they fish didn't eat.

For my corals I was told you don't have to feed them but I do turkey baster some mysis shrimp in their direction every few days. Is that enough?

 

[kzickovich]

try putting the stuff is a blender then freeze it in small pieces to them like frozen brine. my anemone gets food from when I feed my fish I don't give him extra, the more you feed the faster and bigger he'll grow

 

[MrRoo]

Hmm good idea. Do you think they didn't eat it because the chumnks were too big? I cut them up as good as I can with a knife.

Ok so I will feed my anemones 3x a day now!

 

[MrRoo]

Another thing should I give them some brine as well as mysis?

 

[kzickovich]

brine doesn't have much of a nutritional content just go with mysis not brine and remember what you feed comes out and makes a mess in your tank

 

[Aquarist007]

the anemones will tell you when they are hungry--you will see this big gaping hole looking at you through the glass
I go by this---I have found that they are not consistent eaters--sometimes they can go weeks without wanting a feed--mine seem to like raw shrimp

here is a good thread on feeding fish nutritionally

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=785228&perpage=25&pagenumber=1