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Hi,
I'm currently feeding my small humu trigger and lawnmower blenny one frozen Mysis cube in the morning and half a 2-forumla mix of things including algae cube in the evening (with the odd krill thrown in during the day). I am aware that in theory I should remove all food that hasn't been eaten within 3 minutes. I have been ignoring this to fatten them up after I got hem (because especially the humu was super skinny). Also, especially the Mysis get thrown around and distributed throughout the tank by the filter flow pretty fast, so my humu spends his better half of his feeding time chasing shrimps instead of actually eating - which takes away from his net eating time, no? I also "spoon-feed" them, putting just a bit of the cube in step by step to avoid too many mysis ending up in rock crevices. Thus, feeding probably takes a good 10 minutes all together.
I was wondering if I should reduce the food load to stick closer with the 3-minute rule? How, though, considering the food gets thrown around and the fish have to spend some time chase it?
Thank you
I'm currently feeding my small humu trigger and lawnmower blenny one frozen Mysis cube in the morning and half a 2-forumla mix of things including algae cube in the evening (with the odd krill thrown in during the day). I am aware that in theory I should remove all food that hasn't been eaten within 3 minutes. I have been ignoring this to fatten them up after I got hem (because especially the humu was super skinny). Also, especially the Mysis get thrown around and distributed throughout the tank by the filter flow pretty fast, so my humu spends his better half of his feeding time chasing shrimps instead of actually eating - which takes away from his net eating time, no? I also "spoon-feed" them, putting just a bit of the cube in step by step to avoid too many mysis ending up in rock crevices. Thus, feeding probably takes a good 10 minutes all together.
I was wondering if I should reduce the food load to stick closer with the 3-minute rule? How, though, considering the food gets thrown around and the fish have to spend some time chase it?
Thank you