Feeding fish (how often )

67chevellemalibu2 · Oct 16, 2018

I feed once a day.
Everyday it’s flakes and pellets and I alternate the other days with a fresh clam, shrimp, mysis, black worms and Nori sheets.

vetteguy53081 · Oct 16, 2018

4X a day. Each tank has Apex AFS which drops flake and pellets at 9a - 12p and 3p and then I feed one of 11 frozen meals at 7pm

dmunyon8 · Oct 16, 2018

I also feed my fish 2-3 times per day. I Normally change it up each time between PE Mysis, LRS Reef Frenzy, and PE Calanus. Twice a month I’ll normally go to a LFS and buy live Brine Shrimp... my fish love them! I also add Nori to a clip 2 times per week and feed my corals a mixture of Reef Roids and Reef Chili 2 times per week. I was nervous at first about my nutrients but both my NO3 and PO4 are barely detectable by Red Sea Test kits. I have always been under the impression that happy fish need to be fed, a lot! And my corals love the extra food!

dmunyon8 · Oct 16, 2018

We should add a poll to this post

YellowFinsReef · Oct 16, 2018

I feed about 6-8x a day in small increments. My tank is mostly Anampses. I feed dry pellets, masstick, frozen, and live black worms. They're living and growing, so i guess I must be doing something right. Lol

ScubaZ · Oct 16, 2018

dmunyon8 said:
We should add a poll to this post

A poll would be a great idea for this post!

nmqtrhrse · Oct 16, 2018

Every other day unless they give me that “sad clown face”. LOL

88471 · Oct 16, 2018

I feed PE mysis once daily and also feed Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef Flakes every 3 days.

Rich Klein · Oct 17, 2018

165 Gal tank with 12 fish
3 times per day - 2 cubes of Mysis shrimp, LRS Reef Frenzy, and a few Seaweed extreme pellets
+ 1/2 sheet Nori
+ Reef Energy for the corals
+ Phyto for the Pods
+ Something at night for the large Crab that's been banished to the Fuge

shrimped · Oct 17, 2018

57g with:
Helfrichi Firefish,
recently added Neon Goby
And Sunburst Anthias

2 Sexy Shrimp
2 Nessarius Snails
3 Hermits

I feed 3 times a day with frozen mysis twice and Rods Fish Food once.
(im tryna get the sunburst chubby*)

Maritimer · Oct 17, 2018

I generally feed three times daily, with each feeding divided into smaller portions. Mornings, everybody gets a cube (from a rotation of SF Bay Saltwater Mix, Calanus, Mysis, Angelfish Formula, Formula One, Formula Two, Capelin Roe, etc...) and a chunk of LRS or Rod's - again, a rotation of five different blends. This gets melted in a cup of RO/DI, and poured into the return chamber of my sump in three or four portions over an hour or so. On days when I can get home at lunchtime (weekdays, working closer to home) a shot of pellets, followed up by a sprinkle of flakes. Evenings, since I'm currently treating a group in QT who've shown some white, stringy poop, they're getting the same food as the morning meal, but with Selcon, API Quick-Cure and Seachem Focus dripped/sprinkled onto it, and without the RO/DI. After it melts, I'll drop in some pellets, mix thoroughly, wait ten minutes or so, and then drop dabs of it into the return sections of DT and QT with a spoon, three or four times over a couple of hours. Some days, I'll thaw out a mussel (QT) or littleneck clam (DT) which I'll hang on a clip in midwater, along with a half sheet of nori. They'll snack on that throughout the day - for as long as it lasts . . .

~Bruce

Mkus · Oct 17, 2018

I sometimes feed every other day mostly frozen it’s 80% water less bioload in my 24 I only have a Pygmy angel and a 10 year old clown and a gold banded shrimp

Pntbll687 · Oct 17, 2018

Mixture of marine s and seaweed extreme pellets from hikari fed twice a day. Flakes every night, and frozen food once or twice a week.

64Ivy · Oct 17, 2018

DT-3x a day, frozen morning and night, frozen +pellets mid-day. QT-4-5x a day when quarantining wrasse, anthers, or chromis.

neoGeorge · Oct 17, 2018

Nano Cube 28g with 5 fish; feed 1x per day with frozen + NLS pellets.

Nutrient export on this tank is only done by once weekly NoPOX dose and 2x weekly filter floss replacement, so have to be careful not to overfeed.

Labridaedicted · Oct 17, 2018

180 mixed reef

I use a refrigerator auto feeder to douse reef nutrition foods throughout the day.

3x daily mysis feast
3x daily R.O.E.
2x daily beta brine

I also feed a homemade frozen food (glass fish, mussel, anchovy, salmon, roe, whole prawn, and nori ran through meat grinder then vacuum sealed and frozen) mixed with frozen PE mysis 2x per day.

I also add arctipods and oyster feast every couple of days.

So, that's a total of 10x daily minimum.