How often do you feed your fish?

[dgelz]

I think I feed my fish too often. I tend to want to feed everyday. 90% of the time it's a combination of mysis, oyster eggs, , and red caviar. The other 10% is pellet. Reason...my borbinius won't eat pellet. I'm thinking about switching to every other day and having them tough it out. Thoughts?

 

[HPark]

I don't think a missed feeding will hurt every once in awhile but I feed at least once a day and shoot for two and 2-4x on weekends when I'm around more.

But I mostly keep softies so I've never been one to worry too much about nitrates.

edit: also - cool tank! That monti is the corner is neat!

 

[CoralNerd]

I'm feeding live foods five plus times a day as my tank is super clean. I'm trying to get my nitrates and phosphates up a bit so the corals have some fuel to use.
I also switched to dry skimming and turn the skimmer off at night.
Hey since you added T5's to your set up, have you moved the red dragon down?

 

[Cfabia1]

I feed pellets a few times a day but only three or four pellets at a time and add more until all the fish get a couple bites. Also a mixture of frozen food every other day in the same manner as the pellets. I think feeding everyday helps keep everyone happy coral included.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

I feed pellets once a day and a few days ago I started feeding frozen food once a day. So twice a day total. For pellets I use NLS and for frozen I use LRS and Chefzilla interchangeably. All of this is done to encourage spawning in my clowns and today I added two flasher wrasses that are going to need to be fed more than once a day.

 

[Lucky Lefty]

I've been about twice a day. Clip of nori in the morning for the tangs, and then a cube a mysis or other frozen food for the other fish.
I'll usually feed again an hour or 2 before lights out.
Sometimes I switch it up and drop some pellets in instead of a cube of frozen.

 

[Perth_reefer]

I feed 5 times a day, mysis/spinach/cyclops mix in the morning and evening and then pellets 3 times throughout the day. I do have 18 fish at the moment though.
What is the reason for you wanting to feed less? Your tank looks great and the fish look healthy. I've definitely noticed an increased colour to my corals since starting to feed heavier.

 

[nuxx]

Morning:
Mysis, Flake and Pellets + Selcon

Afternoon:
Nori + Selcon

Evening:
Rods, Different Flake and Pellets + Selcon

 

[Dmorty217]

Mysis, spirulina brine, mussels, Cyclopes, bloodworms, formula 2, angel/butterfly formula, daphnia, and roe 2-6 times per day. Also have several other foods not mentioned I feed like clams on the half shell and homemade fish food heavy in wild caught white fish and nori

 

[m0nkie]

I have switched to all frozen food diet. home made sea food and mysis..

I try feeding 3 times a day. morning, later noon, night.

trying to keep a moorish idol fat.. requires soooo much feeding.

but my borb, clowns, wrasse are all super fat as a result

 

[Azedenkae]

I feed about 2-6 times a day. It depends how often I am at home during the day.

 

[humaguy]

only frozen/fresh foods and nori...ave 2-5 times a day, while some baby and sensitive fish might be fed 12 or more times a day...

 

[CoralsAddiction]

roe 2-6 times per day. i

Cool. I have roe by Reef Nutrition and have started feeding it to my fishes twice a day. It's very concentrated and lasts forever. LOL.

 

[jason2459]

NLS pellets 4x per day. Marine and AlgaeMax mixed together

1 sheet of algae 1x per day

2-3x per day some kind of meaty foods

 

[Cosmojo]

I work from home, have two separate tanks, both are SPS dominate, 2-4 times per day. About to get some anthias, so I will try to keep it as close to 4 as possible.

 

[Dmorty217]

Cool. I have roe by Reef Nutrition and have started feeding it to my fishes twice a day. It's very concentrated and lasts forever. LOL.

Super high in protein and most all fish love it.

 

[humaguy]

Super high in protein and most all fish love it.

agree with Derek, it is great stuff and even really finicky fish will go for it...
ask your fish monger or head to the docks and see if you can get the actual roe sack. Freeze it and shave off slices....

 

[m0nkie]

does any of the larger fish eat roe? or larger sized roe?

I have a picky moorish idol that seem to only pick on large chunks of food.

 

[EDJFA]

I feed mostly pellets, a mix of Formula 1 and 2, 2-3 times a day. I have Rods and some mysis that I'll feed a few times during the week.

My tank is in my office, so it's easy for me to drop a pinch or two of pellets in multiple times during the day.

I also feed nori on a clip two or three times a week for my Foxface and Desjardini tang.

And this one time I fed them a nice meal of hermit crabs and snails. Yeah, that was an expensive snack for that Melanurus wrasse. Nothing like turning your brand new CUC into a buffet for a carnivorous and hungry fish. Very cool to watch and a nice lesson learned.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

does any of the larger fish eat roe? or larger sized roe?

I have a picky moorish idol that seem to only pick on large chunks of food.

I don't see why not. I can give you some for free if you want to try it out before dropping $20 on it.