Do I feed enough?

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Hi guys!
I'm new to the hobby and lots of things I do are based on trial and error method. Could You tell me if thats enough food for my tank fish and inverts? All of my livestock varies in size from small to medium.
I have:
4x clown
1x coral beauty
1x wrasse
1x damsel
1x yellow watchmen goby
2x cleaner shrimp

I feed them 2x day at 10AM and 4PM, one frozen cube of mysis in the morning and 1x cube of frozen spirulina mysis in the evenings. Occasionally I give them dry pellets which they seem not to like enough. Is that enough or should I increase?
 

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how are your water parameters feeding like this? doing this will let you know if you are overfeeding or if your filtration cannot keep up.
 

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Hi guys!
I'm new to the hobby and lots of things I do are based on trial and error method. Could You tell me if thats enough food for my tank fish and inverts? All of my livestock varies in size from small to medium.
I have:
4x clown
1x coral beauty
1x wrasse
1x damsel
1x yellow watchmen goby
2x cleaner shrimp

I feed them 2x day at 10AM and 4PM, one frozen cube of mysis in the morning and 1x cube of frozen spirulina mysis in the evenings. Occasionally I give them dry pellets which they seem not to like enough. Is that enough or should I increase?
that sounds like plenty to me. But lets see what others have to say. Do you have a CUC? Copepods? They will help with any excess food
 

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This really depends on water parameters. How are your nitrate and phosphate levels? I feed 4 x per day, smaller feedings more frequently throughout the day. I also soak food in selcon and other vitamin rich supplements.
 

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Personally I would divide your 2 cubes into 3 or even 4 feedings or even more.

I feed less amount because I don't want waste, but I feed 4 or 5 even 6 times a day. Fish poop is great for the system but rotting food is bad and fuels algae.
 

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Personally I would divide your 2 cubes into 3 or even 4 feedings or even more.

I feed less amount because I don't want waste, but I feed 4 or 5 even 6 times a day. Fish poop is great for the system but rotting food is bad and fuels algae.
I wish I could do just that. But I leave in early morning, and do not get home until dinner time. So twice a day is what I do.
 

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Hi guys!
I'm new to the hobby and lots of things I do are based on trial and error method. Could You tell me if thats enough food for my tank fish and inverts? All of my livestock varies in size from small to medium.
I have:
4x clown
1x coral beauty
1x wrasse
1x damsel
1x yellow watchmen goby
2x cleaner shrimp

I feed them 2x day at 10AM and 4PM, one frozen cube of mysis in the morning and 1x cube of frozen spirulina mysis in the evenings. Occasionally I give them dry pellets which they seem not to like enough. Is that enough or should I increase?
If anything, maybe on the low end with 8 fish.
But if everyone happy, I’d just leave that.
 

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