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I'm pretty similar, I feed 1 1/2 cubes worth between 3 meals a day with tdo pellets mixed in. Usually switch up which cube I use daily, lately between marine cuisine and angel and butterfly formula with the afternoon feeding being fish frenzy.i feed a cube of frozen daily with some TDO, coral frenzy, or reef roids at night.
i vary the frozen daily from Rods to PE Mysis, spirulina brine shrimp, mega marine, reef plankton and reef caviar
Just a thought here, but I wouldn't use tank water. I would use the cleanest (Sterile) containers you can and use the cleanest RODI or RO water. (I've done this with RO water to no ill effects yet.) I throw the containers in the fridge. The reason is tank water contains billions of bacteria that are used to eating meat. I wouldn't do that as it will spoil the food. You can certainly do this, just make sure all the equipment is as sterile as possible and use sterile water.I feed frozen every day.
I defrost enough for 4 or 5 days (2-4 cubes of each) in a mason jar with tank water and feed several Spoonfuls before I leave for work.
I had a dog that loved Bananas, peas, and other vegies. It's not something one things a dog would typically go hunting for. They've got K9 teeth built for shredding meat, not for picking peas or berries. But omg she went bonkers for bananas and peas.I feed my fish frozen capelin eggs from San Francisco Bay Company. Occasionally they get some other frozen stuff, but I've found that fish roe gives them everything they need. Nature did design it to do exactly that for developing fish larvae, so it makes sense. It wouldn't be a good diet for herbivores or fish with big mouths, but it works in my tank.
I don't usually feed pellets, and flakes are (in my opinion) utter nonsense. Flakes go down overflows, get caught on stuff to decompose, and can cause fish to ingest air when they eat from the surface. When you look at the ingredients for dry food, you find some pretty weird stuff that I just can't fathom a wild reef fish would ever come across. Some of my "favorites" are;
- Wheat flour
- Potato starch
- Dairy products
- Yeast
- Soy
- Alfalfa
If anybody ever sees a chromis grazing on alfalfa or a tang drinking milk in the wild, please let me know. Not saying that these foods are nutritionally bad for them, but it still seems like it might be better to give them food that they would find on the reef.
Of course, if you have a cowfish, give it all the alfalfa it wants.