How much to feed?

[dstalfire]

I feed my 5 fish in my 75g one cube of frozen food per day. Is this too much? I have a hair alage problem and am I causing it by over feeding? The cubes are the ones at the lfs, I am not sure who makes it.

Dan

 

[reefwick]

Many different kinds of fish food come in cubes but........ I bet that is a contributing factor to the hair algae. Are you skimming? What's your maintenence schedule? % WC's etc.....

 

[reefgeek84]

Re: How much to feed?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7069356#post7069356 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dstalfire
I feed my 5 fish in my 75g one cube of frozen food per day. Is this too much? I have a hair alage problem and am I causing it by over feeding? The cubes are the ones at the lfs, I am not sure who makes it.

Dan

We need to know everything about your set and all your water parameters, so please list those.

Also do you use RO/DI water? if you do not, then that is my guess as to one of the main reasons that you have algae, due to high phosphates. But please list everything that you with your tank and what kind of fish you have? also how long has the tank been up?

 

[jdm01]

I do not feed quite that much. without knowing more like how much livestock, it is tough to know. i use zooplankton and frozen brine shrimp every couple of days. My protein skimmer takes a lot out. All that said, I have not had much of an algae problem with my 29G.

 

[tanker]

What kind of fish and how big??

Also some cubes are bigger then other cubes.

Not much info here.