What, how, and how often are you guys feeding?

[NeveSSL]

Hi all!

Just curious what you guys and gals do.

I take the San Francisco bay salt-water multipack (squid, emerald entree, marine cuisine, and omega-3 artemia), put equal number of cubes in a ziplock bag, and smash it with a hammer!

I then just take a little condiment dish, add a bit of water, put a small chunk of mixed food in to dethaw, and pour it in after 30 minutes to an hour.

I also drop a cube of San Francisco Bay Cyclops into the return of my sump so copepods go EVERYwhere and everyone gets to enjoy them (including my mandarin ).

What do y'all do?

Brandon

 

[fallinapart]

Brandon, I feed the fish a few flakes or pellets when I'm home for lunch (just after the lights come on). Then in the evening I feel mysis & brine shrimp (frozen).... and every other day I add either photoplankton, cyclopeze or oyster eggs after the lights go out and the skimmer turns off for a few hours.

Norman

 

[NeveSSL]

Thanks for the reply Norman.

I forgot to add that I put phyto in every night. Are you growing you own? Phyto, that is.

Brandon

 

[Peterock]

Here is mine it's (two different foods). So far everything is loving the feeding times in my tank. Just want to see what other people think about my mixes.


Fish Food

3+ cubes of Brine Shrimp
3 +cubes of Marine Cuisine
3 +cubes of Emerald Entree
1 -2cube of Squid
4-5 pieces of diced Krill
8-10 drops of Garlic Extreme
1/4 teaspoon Ginger powder
diced Scallops
5 -8 drops of selcon

Mix all together in a small container and Freeze until use....

Coral Food

1/2 teaspoon of Oyster Eggs
4 oz of Phytoplankton
4oz of Rotersers
1 oz of Zooplez
1-2 oz of Cyclop-eeze

Mix well and keep cold, shake well before feeding

Dosing

Coral Vite
Vitimian C
Iodine
Pickel Lime

 

[Mikeyjer]

I feed Nori in the morning before work and something different every night range from Pellets, Mysis Shrimp, Formula 2, or Marine Cuisine. I try to maintain mainly on algae food since tangs should not eat too much meaty foods and that's what I mainly have. Since I feed on a daily basis, I stop feeding phyto.

 

[HowardCath]

You guys are real gourmets. I thaw one frozen cube of the San Francisco Bay Salt-water Multipack and add 2 pinches of a flake food (e.g., Formula One, Omega One, or Brine shrimp Plus) once daily. My fish are fat and I have no algae problem -- but I don't know why.

 

[NeveSSL]

Wow, peterock! Thats quite a list!

I have selcon, but haven't been using it yet (well... I did last batch of food... but its expensive!). Cyclopleze is too expensive for me, although I do plan on getting some freeze dried powder stuff and mix it in eventually. The frozen Cyclopeeze is outrageous! The San Francisco Cyclops are rather inexpensive comparatively, and my mandarin eats it like crazy, but I don't think its as concentrated.

Nice list, though, man. One thing I noticed from your list is that I need to reduce the amount of squid in my food... there are ALWAYS leftover chunks of it... plus it freezes really hard and floats usually, which is possibly why its not eaten.

Anyway... enough babbling on about that one...

Mike... would you care to expound on why you stopped feeding phyto because you feed daily? I have just started phyto, mainly for my pod population (for my mandarin) and I also just got a clam, which hopes for one or two more (depending on my CB Angel and whether or not he nips at this clam). Not to mention its free! Thanks to rcmike and Tomoko, anyway, who helped me get my cultures started (although the stuff from Tomoko didn't make it due to me waiting too long to start it).

Howard: I have no algae problem -- but I don't know why. Sounds like a hook for a country song. :lol:

Did you mean you DO have an algae problem and don't know why?

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your replies.

Brandon

 

[Mikeyjer]

Brandon,

I was told by the guy that sold me the clam since I feed my fish all the time, there's no need to feed the tank. They would get enough from just the fish waste and other food source. He told me he doesn't feed his at all. I've been told by others the same thing as well. So far my clam is doing rather well....Plus rather I feed phyto or not, I don't see any difference in my corals at all....They've been looking really good from all those water changes on a weekly basis I've been doing, plus a change of salt mix as well.....

 

[NeveSSL]

Ahhh... ok. That makes sense. I've read that, too, but I dose phyto for other animals besides my clam, too. What salt did you go to and which did you switch from, out of curiosity (its my thread and I'll hijack the topic if I want to... :lol: ).

Thanks!

Brandon

 

[fallinapart]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12060546#post12060546 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NeveSSL
Thanks for the reply Norman.

I forgot to add that I put phyto in every night. Are you growing you own? Phyto, that is.

Brandon

No Brandon, I have been buying it from the Critter so between the cost of driving up there and buying the phyto, it is a pretty expensive clam food

Norman

 

[NeveSSL]

We will have to fix that soon, Norman.

A link for you.

Brandon

 

[Mikeyjer]

I was just using Instant Ocean, now I'm mixing Instant Ocean and Oceanic together and still having to dose the water with Buffer before any water changes to bring up Alkaline and PH.

 

[HowardCath]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12061547#post12061547 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NeveSSL

Howard: I have no algae problem -- but I don't know why. Sounds like a hook for a country song. :lol:

Did you mean you DO have an algae problem and don't know why?

Brandon

No, I really did mean that I'm doing well and I have no algae problem. I don't know why because I have no skimmer, I'm using tap water, and I'm adding fish food for 14 little guys each day. I hope my luck doesn't run out, but something is working okay for me. Do you really think I could get a hit single out of this?

 

[NeveSSL]

Hey... you never know where the next hit country song is going to come from.

Thats cool everything is working for you. As long as it works, who cares!

Brandon

 

[crumbletop]

Great thread guys!

I've gotten very lazy and have gone to flake food mostly. All my frozen sits in the freezer. I think you guys are inspiring me to get back to my old routine where i fed a mix of stuff a couple times a week - emerald entree, cyclopeeze, maybe some brine shrimp, and once a week feed a small amount of oyster eggs + seachem reef plus + a squirt of selcon.

 

[GPhiAce]

Out of curiosity, are you all doing anything in particular for your mandarins?????? I am leaving town soon for 2+ months and amd wondering if I could set something up to feed dry food, but would like to make sure he is fat before I leave. I have plenty of pods in my tank now I believe. Just surous.

 

[GPhiAce]

Sorry- forgot to include what I feed.
Currently Formula 2 pinchs 2 flake and 1/2 cube Marine Cuisine daily. Did include cyclopeeze, but ran out 2 days ago- will start back this weekend.

 

[NeveSSL]

I have been feeding the San Francisco Bay brand of Cyclops. They are very close to cyclopeze, but 1/6th of the price ($5 for frozen) but not quite the same. My mandarin eats them up! Oh, and they are whole pods, FWIW. As well as the live stuff, of course, including brine shrimp.

Brandon

 

[Tennsquire]

The fish usually get dry food, sometimes live brine if I've been to the Critter and they've been good; sometimes something like emereld entree. The sailfin tang gets dried seaweed a few times a week, and the clowns usually snack on that as well. The corals get a mix of golden pearls, oyster eggs, decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, amino acids, and a Knop vitamin/filter feeder supplement. Reef gets phyto once a week or so for my clam and to help feed all the micro-critters.

 

[HowardCath]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12075726#post12075726 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tennsquire
decapsulated brine shrimp eggs

(?)

I love my fish, but I don't think I'd have the time (or dexterity) to do that!