How often do you feed your fish?

[Matthew91]

Hi Reefers, I was wondering how often to you feed your fish or fish and corals. I started to feed my fish and corals every other day one cube of mysis or brine shrimp. I was also wondering if this is too much food for every other day? I have....

❖ Fish ❖
3➝ Dart fish
6➝ Chromis
1➝ Clown fish
1➝ Watchman goby

❖ Clean Up Crew ❖
12➝ Hermit crabs
5➝ Nassarius snails
7➝ Margarita snail
4➝ Turbo snails
3➝ Brittle stars and counting
1➝ Banded coral shrimp

❖ Corals ❖
➝ Favia
➝ Various mushrooms of different assortments
➝ Frogspawn
➝ Zoas
➝ Buton polyps
➝ Green and brown star polyps
➝ Acan
➝ Glove polyps
➝ Australian duncan
➝ Xenia
➝ This other coral that I forgot the name for
➝ Kenya tree

 

[jeffesaurusrex]

I feed a quarter cube of Mysis daily, all of that gets eaten as far as I can see, and I try to have a sheet of Nori on a clip at all times.

2 Clownfish, 1 Yellow Tang, 2 BG Chromis, Lawnmower Blenny, Peppermint Shrimp, 8 or so hermits and 2 snails.

I am having red cyanobacteria right now that could mean I'm feeding too much, but it may just be because the tank is new.

 

[Matthew91]

I feed a quarter cube of Mysis daily, all of that gets eaten as far as I can see, and I try to have a sheet of Nori on a clip at all times.

2 Clownfish, 1 Yellow Tang, 2 BG Chromis, Lawnmower Blenny, Peppermint Shrimp, 8 or so hermits and 2 snails.

I am having red cyanobacteria right now that could mean I'm feeding too much, but it may just be because the tank is new.

Does that peppermint shrimp bother any of your corals if you have any?

 

[aquaph8]

I feed a couple cubes a day probably + nori and pellets. I feed small ammounts a bunch of times, only as much as the fish will eat within a minute or so. My advice would be to start slow and as your tank matures your biological filter will be able to handle a little more load. If you start to get algae blooms, your probably putting more load on your tank than it can handle.

 

[KyleCT]

I would say at least one full cube of Mysis or Brine a day, the nori is a good idea for the yellow tang as well.

 

[Matthew91]

I feed a couple cubes a day probably + nori and pellets. I feed small ammounts a bunch of times, only as much as the fish will eat within a minute or so. My advice would be to start slow and as your tank matures your biological filter will be able to handle a little more load. If you start to get algae blooms, your probably putting more load on your tank than it can handle.

Thanks for the advice. Really appreciate it! I think I will cut into halves

 

[jeffesaurusrex]

Does that peppermint shrimp bother any of your corals if you have any?

I only have one rock with some zoas and a shroom right now that I got cheap at the LFS. I'm still gradually improving my equipment until I buy some frags and get started, all the while my tank matures and water quality improves, I learn, ect.

But anyway the Pep doesn't bother any of the zoas or the shroom, he crawls on/around it sometimes but I can never see him trying to grab them. You can see him by it in my avatar if you can make it out. He's one of my favorite critters in the tank too, and the SO loves him. It's really cute the way he swims, they have feet that retract into the body and only come out to aid in swimming, but he rarely does especially in the daytime. The LFS said I would never see him with the lights on, but every once in a while I see him climb out from one of his caves. My yellow tang harasses him when he's out, and hides in one of the shrimp's caves often. I think the tang has mistaken it for a cleaner.

Not to get off track, but does anybody know if a skunk cleaner will fight with a peppermint shrimp?

 

[Matthew91]

I heard that most shrimps get along. I had some peppermints with my banded coral shrimp and they got along just fine. Why I asked was because my peppermints started attacking most if not all my corals and had to kiss them adios. I guess a lot of people have this problem.

 

[Curious George]

I have 4 3inch fish and feed once a day. I mix flakes, nori, and mysis in a shot glass with tank water and toss it in. Usually takes a minute before everything is gone.

 

[Matthew91]

Is nori some kind of pellet food?

 

[Kentonluff]

Are you sure your peps are peps and not camels? They are sometimes easily mistaken. And alot of lfs sell camels as peps

 

[Matthew91]

They were peppermints mos def. If they were "TRUE" peppermints I don't know

 

[MCCOOL]

I feed a couple cubes a day probably + nori and pellets. I feed small ammounts a bunch of times, only as much as the fish will eat within a minute or so. My advice would be to start slow and as your tank matures your biological filter will be able to handle a little more load. If you start to get algae blooms, your probably putting more load on your tank than it can handle.

Great advice.

I feed 3-5 times a day. 1 cube of mysis plus 3-4 feedings of NLS pellets.

 

[RadReefer]

I feed flakes twice daily and feed frozen food either Rod's or 2 cubes of PE mysis on a daily basis. I have 9 smallish fish in a 75. I believe in feeding fish. We need to eat a few times a day, think of how it would be to eat only every other day...

 

[Laurier]

1 1/2 cubes a day of mysis

yellow tang, melanarus wrasse, clown, tail spot blenny, watchman goby, 2 BG chromis

I think they are eating it all, seems like it. Tried to get them on flakes but they just look at it and than come to the front expecting mysis. Hilarious fish, when they want to be fed they will follow me from one side to the other till i feed them after that they just seem to not care that I am there. Most of these fish I have had for 2.5 years

 

[German Niklas]

Hey,

I have 20 Fishs in my Tank (650L) only a view litle corals.
I feed 2 mixed cubes, 4 times a day. i feed pellets 4 times, too.

 

[rysher]

2 cubes a day
fishes are 1 yellow coris, 1 exquisite, 1 lawnmower, 2 flashers.
i got no algae on the DT and i dont have a skimmer.

 

[namxas]

We have a few that we feed once daily (SH, anthias spp., barnacle blennies). These are in very mature systems with lots of pods for in between feedings.

Our OSFF pair gets fed a "main meal" daily as well as several feedings of NLS pellets between meals.

The majority of our fish (Scorpaeniformes) are fed M-W-F. It takes one person a full hour to feed them all.

 

[mamoonkay]

I feed a quarter cube of Mysis daily :fish1:

 

[jeffesaurusrex]

It seems like a lot of people are feeding more than I am with a similar load. Am I not feeding enough?