Feeding Question - Frozen Cube Amount

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Hello,

I'm having issues feeding my Yellow Clown Goby. I have tried spot feeding, but am deciding to simply increase the amount of food I feed.

I have two small clowns, one yellow goby, 5 hermits and some snails / CUC in a 25g AIO. I go through a single cube of Mysis Shrimp once every 3-4 weeks or so. I am fearful of underfeeding them. I have a lot of live rock and shouldn't have any issues with ammonia. Nitrates and phosphates are a larger concern.

How much of the frozen shrimp would you feed per day for this stock list?
 
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I would feed enough so that it gets consumed in a couple of minutes. I would also feed at least twice a day and a varied diet. You might want to try NLS pellets, formula 1 flake, and another frozen like LRS.
I'm staying away from dry food to keep phosphates down, I've noticed frozen to produce significantly less

Will note other foods
 

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only mysis and nothing else is not very nutritional in the long run. Please consider to feed the fish more often and more varied diet. I feed my clown gobies 3 times a day, mysis, brine, reef frenzy, and occassionally pellets. Pellets are loaded with vitamins and minerals for the fish
 

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I have two small clowns, one yellow goby, 5 hermits and some snails / CUC in a 25g AIO. I go through a single cube of Mysis Shrimp once every 3-4 weeks or so. I am fearful of underfeeding them.

I used to have a similar setup. Of course, the size of cubes of food may vary, but I used about one cube per week.
 
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only mysis and nothing else is not very nutritional in the long run. Please consider to feed the fish more often and more varied diet. I feed my clown gobies 3 times a day, mysis, brine, reef frenzy, and occassionally pellets. Pellets are loaded with vitamins and minerals for the fish
I was planning on doing the same very soon. Next time I’m at LFS
 

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I make my fish food: Fish eggs live clams, live mussels, live oysters (add nori if you have something that consumes). if you are gutting your fish for dinner, use it for this; if you don't eat fish then go to the fish market and ask for -it. they will give it to you for free. -whole sardines - bones and all place items in food processor. Freeze in mini cube trays.

The fish you have- feed twice a day.

There are other fish that require multi feeds per day example wrasses
 
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I make my fish food: Fish eggs live clams, live mussels, live oysters (add nori if you have something that consumes). if you are gutting your fish for dinner, use it for this; if you don't eat fish then go to the fish market and ask for -it. they will give it to you for free. -whole sardines - bones and all place items in food processor. Freeze in mini cube trays.

The fish you have- feed twice a day.

There are other fish that require multi feeds per day example wrasses
Wait, I can just blend fish scraps, freeze it, then feed that?

How about tilapia?
 

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Wait, I can just blend fish scraps, freeze it, then feed that?

How about some tilapia?

There is no value in the fish its self...ex tilapia, cod. The value part of a fish is the guts.
 

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