feeding

Hi everyone! Brand new to this website! I have a question any experts would like to help me out. My wife and I just upgraded to our 1st CopperBand Butterfly fish. Now, I heard all the "fear" about how challenging they can be to eat, but I want to set them with a variety of diet to make sure...

I recently bought some TDO pellets (x-small) and realize I have been making a mistake not doing this sooner. The Biota mandarins eat them right up and they will sit on the rock work until they come by to feast. I had been doing Hikari frozen brine and frozen can o cyclops and the challenge with...

Hey all, I have a beautiful male Blue Star Leopard wrasse who has been in my 135g display for 3 years. I’ve had him on frozen and pellets for years now. I’ve also had a mystery wrasse for roughly 1.5 years and the two have been getting along fine with the leopard being dominant. Long story...

Okay. I'm just gonna fire off these questions because I have a ton of them, lol. Some backstory: I've kept freshwater fish for 26 years. I just got into saltwater in the summer of 2021 and now am on my 3rd (4th counting the quarantine) tank. Here goes so bear with me: 1. Any downside/upside...

I’m in a bit of a conundrum - I started my nano tank roughly 7-8 months ago. Thus far no algae issues, and I had been feeding my 4 small fish (citron goby, neon goby, barnacle blenny, pinkbar goby with pistol shrimp sidekick) once every other day. Lately my citron has been looking a bit skinny...

Simple question really, do I just drop some in and hope the royal gramma I purchased yesterday will see and eat it? I am told they are irresistible. Straight from the bottle? Use an eye dropper, submerge and squeeze? I usually just feed and 0.5 mm diameter pellets, occasionally grind up some...

every night around this time(a couple hours after my whites shut off) my clownfish starts going crazy. Swimming fast back and forth in the tank and looking like he is eating. I sometimes have micro bubbles when I need to top off my tank so I just assumed this was always the case. Well tonight...

I have a pair of Mocha Gladiator Clowns and a Coral Beauty Angel. They eat the frozen mysis shrimp, but don’t seem too happy with it. I also have marine pellets that the clowns like but the angel doesn’t seem to like. My biggest concern is the angel because it doesn’t seem to eat much. What’s...

Hey all. Looking for some advise from some more experienced tang keepers. I recently purchased a juvenile clown tang probably 2.5”-3” long. I believe he is a wild caught specimen. He will not eat prepared foods. Frozen or pellet. He does continuously pick at the rocks for algae. He will not even...

Hi all, Dendros, Acans, Favia, Duncan, Frogspawn, Hammer, etc... When target feeding, do you have to feed each individual coral mouth/head for every parts to grow? Or will feeding one "distribute" the food to the entire colony? Thanks!

so im at a point where im a bit concerned with my fishes health, not from starving but the opposite. My newest addition, a regal and a majestic angel are getting along well with the previous inhabitants. because of the added inhabitants, i have added the ammount of feedings i do and they are now...

Hi Is once a day feed or twice a day too much for micromussa lord ? thanks

Hello, i am once again attempting to keep moorish idols and regal angels after ive lost my previous ones to my velvet outbreak almost 2 years ago, from lack of observation in qt of an orangeshoulder tang. I broke down the tank and restarted with new rock. i have finished quarantining my regal...

Hi all, I've had a banded cat shark egg a couple months and it finally hatched on its own a couple nights ago. I got ghost shrimp the next day to feed it with but it's gone into hiding and I haven't seen it since. Should I be concerned? How long can hatchlings go without eating? I'm starting to...

Hello fellow saltines, I'm looking for a little guidance on feeding my Hi Fin goby. The previous owner was feeding the goby and pistol shrimp frozen mysis and pellets. I already had this food for my freshwater tanks so it was easy to continue this except I found the mysis kept floating to the...

Do you feed your Euphylia? If so, what and how do you feed? Frogspawn, hammer, wall hammers, torch, octospawns, you name it!

Hello! I'm planning on getting a candy stripe pistol shrimp and a shrimp goby to pair with it. I've been doing some research on different types of shrimp goby and I'm trying to find one to pair with it once I get it. I have a Fluval Evo 13.5 with a deep sand bed with no modifications (yet)...

Newbie clownfish questions (video below): *He's small, about 1", and been in the established 37 gallon tank for about 3 weeks. 1. Please help ID -- is this an Ocellaris? 2. To buy a friend now, I assume I need to get another small one the same size but does it have to be the same species (if I'm...

Broadcast feeding VS target feeding corals has been a long standing discussion and debate in this hobby. Do you personally notice a different feeding response in your corals when broadcast feeding VS target feeding.. Continue Reading..

I have never seen it do this after a feeding before, its almost creepy to look at!

Like the title says I have some new CB frostbite clowns that are picking at food occasionally but not crushing it. They seem healthy to me and don’t look thin. They’ve been in the tank 3-4 days I forget which. I think we got them Monday night. One will eat sometimes during the day the other...

For quite some time now, I have been feeding only once a week. I always monitored the fish to make sure that they were not starving, and you can read more about my setup here: ChunkyMunky Pengopus's 63 gallon reef However, I have come upon the realisation that feeding once a week is probably...

Hello, Over the last month I have begun training my frogfish on eating frozen silversides, today he took it but I couldn't get the line out out the silverside before he ate it completly, and I had to slowly pull the line out of him, during this time he inhaled a bunch of water into his stomach...

I tried to feed my zoas some crushed pellets and all my other coral responded well but my zoas instead got mad and slimed all over. I’m wondering if anyone has some tips for getting a feeding response from them.

I got myself a Marine Betta at my LFS about a week ago for $120. (no gender I just refer to all my animals as “him”) I put him in my 150g fish only tank that has a Green Bird Wrasse, Harlequin Bass, and two Maroon Clownfish. I’m just getting the tank started after cycling it. The Marine Betta...