Feeding time Questions

[mikemartinez]

What do you guys feed your reef tanks?

Some people say that they dont like to feed flake food at all and only feed frozen and some just feed flake with some phyto...

Currently I am feeding Formula one flakes (Everyday) and Marine snow (2-3 times a week) along with some cyclops and Marine Cuisine every once and a while..

What can you guys recommend?

 

[KAiNE]

I feed my reef once a day (evening).
About once a month I target feed corals at night.
I feed my FOWLR twice a day.

 

[crumbletop]

I feed about every other day. Mainly formula 1 flake. I feed some frozen cyclopeze, emerald entree, on occasion, and also some DTs oyster eggs and some seachem reef plus on occasion. I generally feed when the lights are just about to go off (maybe 30 minutes before).

 

[mikemartinez]

Yeah I feed them only once a day as well at night but I may cut back to every other day now that you mention it or at least feed them much less than I am currently..

DT's Oyster eggs?... I think I'll try that..

 

[KAiNE]

I started reefing back in the 80's when the mentality was "starve the fish, save the reef", it took me awhile to realize the benefits of proper feeding.
I mix many commercial foods in a food processor for my reef (cyclops, mysis, oystereggs..etc) and give about a thumbsized chuck at feeding time. I rinse this using a brineshrimp net so i may be loosing some of the oystereggs and cyclops.

For my FOWLR i buy calamari and the bag of mixed seafood and mix it in the food processor adding in some algae, selcon and whatever other commercial foods i have left (krill, mysis). I rinse this as well before feeding.

The only time i do not rinse is when i am target feeding corals since the particle size is so small.

 

[gsusfreak]

man, i must be a terrible keeper, i feed my animals 3 times a day.....but in super small proportions...pretty much watever they can eat in 30 seconds....i just feed pellets , and formula 1 flakes, and sometimes livebrine

 

[mikemartinez]

No john..

I was actually just reading the tank of the month and the guy said he feeds his tank 8 to 12 times a day.. small enough portions that they can eat in about 1 minute so you are doing good..

I guess I need to experiment a little bit and see what works for me..

 

[Mikeyjer]

I feed my tanks twice a day. I just got some DT's, going to give that a try.....However, when my fish were sick with ich, I was feeding them 4+ times per day with frozen formula 2 and that got rid of ich pretty quick....Haven't dealt with ich in a longggggggggg time, hope to never see it again....
I feed nori sheets, formula 2 frozen, cyclopeeze, mysis shrimp, formula 2 pellets, marine cuisine, frozen variety pack, etc. One part of my freezer is full of frozen fish food....lol

 

[Angela Short]

Formula 1 and 2 flakes and pellet both at the same feeding. Once a day most days, twice if I think of it. My mandarin actually gobbles up the pellets is why I feed them at least once a day.
Nori about every other day just because its a pain to fool with. Sometimes I just hold the nori by hand and let the tangs gobble it down because it ALWAYS comes off every clip I try. Then I am fishing it out before it gets lost or clogges up a overflow is why nori is such a pain for me. My tangs hit it so hard I don't think any clip could hold it!
Frozen on occasion I make myself with well rinced ingredients before mixing. I noticed even with washing the food well to get the bad stuff out (Myasia and brine are the worst) I still get algae film on the glass if I feed the frozen much. I can go almost a week without magfloating till I start feeding frozen and the green film goes crazy so I know it adds phoshate to the water.

 

[NeveSSL]

I get the variety pack of food from San Francisco Bay Brand. I used to feed Mega Marine, but it floats too much and when the tank turns back on, it all goes down the overflow!

The variety pack has squid, marine cuisine, emerald entree, and "Omega 3 Brine Shrimp". I just take about 8 cubes (2 of each variety), put it in a ziplock bag, and smash it with a hamma'! Then each night at around this time (I'm about to go do it now... :lol, I go get a bit, put it in some tank water for about 15 or 20 minutes to melt, and then turn the pumps off and feed.

I'm thinking about getting more, though. I would very much like to do my own mix (based off of Melev's recipe), but it will take me about $80 (with cyclopleze, anyways... hehe) to do it all between buying seafood here and getting some other frozen stuff from Drs. Foster and Smith. I will eventually, though. Maybe later in January when I have some money... hehe. Anyone up for a group order of food? Shipping is only $20 no matter how much frozen food you buy.

Brandon

 

[Angela Short]

I did a big mix up of frozen at a meeting here once and we split the cost up. It is very expensive to front the money to get all the ingredients ($100-125 I think) but we measured out the amount it made and the baggies were pretty cheap it made so much. WAY cheaper than the small squares at the LFS. That would be something someone should do at a upcomming meeting. Its just a stinky meeting .