What do you feed your tank?

[RussC]

I will have corals and fish in my reef tank. I'm thinking at this point I will have more LPS, zoos and shrooms than SPS. And fish. What do you guys feed everything and what is your schedule for feeding? I will have an auto feeder. Can I put both coral and fish food in that?

 

[billdogg]

My 120g DT is SPS dominated with 8-9 fish and a couple clams. I feed once daily, usually New Life Spectrum pellets, and mixture of .5 and 1.0mm. A couple times a week I'll switch it up to some Rod's original frozen and I'll sometimes put in a cube of rotifers or cyclopsese. Other than that, the corals fend for themselves, as do the fish on the days I forget to feed. There is more than enough for the fish already in the tank (pods, etc) and the corals depend more on lighting than they do other outside food sources

 

[Ncord]

Rods food ! My fish and corals love it


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[Sk8r]

I feed something like cyclopeeze (Hikari, I think), mysis, dried copepods, some Formula 1 sinking pellet, and some regular flake food. I figure flake food is enough, but the finegrade cyclopeeze stuff goes all over the tank and gives the fish the pleasure of hunting for quite a while. When I'm on the road, they get flake food from an Eheim autofeeder.

 

[RussC]

I feed something like cyclopeeze (Hikari, I think), mysis, dried copepods, some Formula 1 sinking pellet, and some regular flake food. I figure flake food is enough, but the finegrade cyclopeeze stuff goes all over the tank and gives the fish the pleasure of hunting for quite a while. When I'm on the road, they get flake food from an Eheim autofeeder.

Are all the foods you mention considered dried foods? Do you offer those just for variety or do you feed that for something specific? I think a variety could be good for all the inhabitants.

 

[ecarrillo046]

I feed some of my corals reef chili. My LPS don't seem to eat or react to it when it falls on them but other corals like GSP and Kenya tree have good responces to it. I also direct feed my LPS mysis shrimp, they eat it but I've been considering rods food. My LFS has some so why not? Just haven't researched it enough


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[scooter31707]

I feed my fish twice a day. New life Spectrum pellets/flakes during the morning and Jimbos Gumbo during the evening. I target feed my coral every Saturday evening after lights out Reef Chili and Mysis. Every day I put Nori on clips for my tangs, angels, and blennys.

 

[jd371]

I feed my fish twice a day. In the morning they get one cube of BS and in the evening they get live Black Worms, a cube of Mysis and LRS. I broadcast feed my fish so the corals feed also, but I do feed the corals twice a week with a mixture of Reef Frenzy and Cyclopeeze or Hakari Coral Gumbo for one of the feedings and just Marine Snow or Phytoplankton for the other.

 

[Sk8r]

In response to question above, I feed mostly frozen or freeze-dried; some flake. I don't like to eat the same thing every meal. Their enthusiasm seems equal for all, but I figure the more variety, the more I'm apt to supply micro-nutrients that are good for them.

 

[Arnallop3]

I feed my fish once a day. A bit of spirulina brine shrimp. I just started feeding acans and blastos brine shrimp and they are loving it.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I feed a crazy assortment of foods, flakes, pellets, frozen, liquid, live... you name it, I've probably used it, including some coral foods and extras like amino acids and ascorbic acid. I feed every other day and I feed nori in a clip for the serious vegetarians in the tank first. Then if they want any of the other foods they are welcome to it.

 

[SycoCell]

I"m still trying to figure out feeding as I add more coral and fish. Recent addition was a fox face. I have about 8 other small fish that don't require fancy feeding. I auto-feed every other day, Spectrum pellets. I give the FoxFace a half of a sea weed every few days. Throw a frozen pellet of shrimp and whatnot in the tank every few days. Reef-Roids once a week.

Things seem to be happy enough in my tank - but as my signature says, I'm a newb...

 

[homer1475]

I feed my fish flakes and pellets. My corals get fed light, and once a week a cube of mysis, reef chili, and phytoplankton.

I find it funny that people will vary their fish food, because you know "they need diversity", but will feed their dogs/cat the same bag of dried food for their entire lives, and never think twice about it.

 

[Valentini89]

I feed a crazy assortment of foods, flakes, pellets, frozen, liquid, live... you name it, I've probably used it, including some coral foods and extras like amino acids and ascorbic acid. I feed every other day and I feed nori in a clip for the serious vegetarians in the tank first. Then if they want any of the other foods they are welcome to it.

I'm with you Ron, I feed several types of food. My puffers will eat pretty much anything, from pellets to squid.. they go crazy over frozen squid. And the rest of them will eat whatever. Mainly brine shrimp though.

 

[Ron Reefman]

I'm with you Ron, I feed several types of food. My puffers will eat pretty much anything, from pellets to squid.. they go crazy over frozen squid. And the rest of them will eat whatever. Mainly brine shrimp though.

I do it for 2 reasons. First, I 'win' a lots of food at a local club raffle every year so it's really cheap for me. One hundred dollars in raffle tickets and I come home with $300 or more in food and other stuff. Second, I keep a pretty wide variety of animals in my tank and I want them all to get something they can use.:thumbsup:

 

[Sthomasson72]

Jimmy’s gumbo