feeding

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...

Hi! I have been reading lots of threads here over the past year but this is my first question that I haven’t really come across being already discussed yet. I have a 220 gallon system that has been up and running a little over a year. I just added a scooter blenny (named Scooter, yes, I’m one of...

Hi All, I recently picked up a beautiful Two Spot Goby that is currently in QT. I had read that they can be picky eaters and unfortunately that seems to be true with this little guy. As far as I can tell he has not eaten any of the frozen mysis or brine shrimp I've tried to feed so I am lookin...

How do aquarists train wild caught fish to accept foods after being collected from the ocean?

Hello, I purchased a dispar anthia a week ago and it has been shy hiding in the rock work a lot. The only time it comes out is if I turn off all flow in the tank. I thought anthias loved flow yet if I turn the pumps on even to 25% he goes back into the rocks. Anyone seen this before? Yes the...

Curious how all of you would design a food regimen for my tank. I know that there are tons of variables, but assume a perfect world (i.e. nutrient export isn't an issue, home all day, etc). I'm struggling with figuring out how many times to feed, what to feed and when to feed it, how much to...

So, I woke up this morning to one of our peppermint shrimp in the mouth of one of our borbs. Gotta say it looked pretty funny, but I couldn't get a pic of it. We feed 3X a day, but I'm now thinking that isn't enough. Questions & stock list below. Questions for all you Borb owners... How many...

I'm very new to this hobby, my tank has only been cycled for slightly over 2 weeks, my first two fish were two baby clowns (6-7months) and I have since added 1 jewelled rockskipper along with a peppermint shrimp. As for corals I have a green torch with about 8-10 heads and 2 very small...

I bought a tuxedo urchin because I think they're awesomely cool and my LFS had them in stock for the first time I can remember. However, I don't have any algae haha. I have some nori, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to feed it. It never finds the nori clip, and if I try to place...

I got this BTA back in August and it’s grown a bit too. Overall it’s pretty healthy. Sometimes at night after I feed it though, it will just throw up all the food completely undigested. The pic I attached is currently right now and I fed the BTA 9 hours ago. For it’s size, I would assume it...

So, I ordered some black worms from eastern aquatics to entice a finicky Copperband to eat — he constantly picks at rocks for feather worms but my tank only has a finite supply of them. They arrived today, and after the required cleaning out of the bag, I turned off the flow and threw some in to...

Hey! I have a banded cat shark that hatched around three weeks ago. When she hatched she still had a bit of yolk so I wasn't concerned about her eating, but now her yolk has been dissolved for over two and a half weeks and she shows absolutely no interest in eating. Ive tried krill, silversides...

All I can find online is that anampses tamarin wrasses eat crustaceans off of rocks. What kind of crustaceans? Wikipedia has nothing on this genus. I want to train mine to accept frozen food but I don’t even know where to start since I don’t know the diet it would naturally eat. Has anyone had...

So I jumped the gun on this one, I’ll admit. I just purchased a black back/china wrasse from my lfs and now I’m playing catch up. Not an excuse but I’ve never seen any store have one of these in stock before. Let alone a 5 inch specimen like I brought home. And it was only $45 so I really...

I purchased two black and white cardinals a month or so ago. I recently added a wrasse, and while I thought the royal gamma would pick the wrasse apart, they acclimated very well. Fast forward a few weeks and I notice one of my cardinal is hiding anywhere it can find, top fins chewed off. As I...

Hi, I am currently cycling my 75g tank with a fish in cycle. I have 2 clowns and 2 Kupang Damsels in there and am wondering what is the best way to feed them without causing a major ammonia spike from over feeding. I currently have frozen mysis shrimp and marine s pellets from hikari. I was...

Hello all, I tried doing searches here as well as general Google searches but can't seem to find an answer so I thought I would just post the question to the experts. For transparency this question is for my freshwater setup but I assume will also apply to my saltwater setup once I get that...

Hello all, I’m a new reefer getting my first pair of clownfish & im curious about their diet or just fish diet in general from experienced reefers! My plan is to feed a mixed diet of frozen mysis shrimp & pellet food. Would it be better to feed pellet or frozen food in the morning? & which one...

So I just fed my 2 clown fish today (10g tank) and usually after feeding I try to remove (with my hands because I don’t have bottom feeders or a net) the left over fish food. However, looking at the tank right now there are 2-3 pellets I missed from previous feedings and 4-7 visible sized pieces...

Hello everyone. I have 3 moorish idols In my 450 gal that after 3 days 2 of them have started to eat the frozen food. Does anyone have any advice on feedings and also any long term success. The only posts I have been able to find are close to 5 yrs out of date and hoping the 2-4 year average...

hey guys i’m new to the hobby and i have a small clown and small banggai cardinal (about 1-1.5in). the banggai has been in the tank for about 2.5 weeks and clown about 1.5 weeks. the clown eats real well mysis, blood worms, flakes but i rarely see the banggai eat anything. he chews every food i...

I’m new to reefing but bought an established tank with decent sized fish. I’ve got a Foxface (4-5”), blue tang (3-4”), coral beauty (3”), cardinal (3”) and two new clowns (1”) I just added. I feed approximately 1 cube total of frozen food daily and a quarter sheet of nori. I use a variety...

Hey guys, I have two clowns, and the smaller one is a super finicky eater. He does not get excited about food, he will either swim up to food and then let it hit the ground or instantly spit it out. He is SO much skinnier than the bigger clown, and I am worried he's going to be dead soon. I am...