How many cubes per day?

[aaron186]

I have a 100 gal fish that is stocked with 12 fish. I’m currently feeding avast marine reef jerky 7x per day for 1 minute. (3 min run time is equivalent 1 cube of frozen food per packaging). This equates to 2.33 cubes per day. I’m running a refugium and filter sock. My phosphates have recently spiked to 0.2 on Hannah checker. Nitrates are 10. I’m changing out 1.4 gallons per day via autowater changes.

How many cubes per day would seem like enough for these 12 fish? I’m not sure if I’m over feeding.

Purple tang
White Tail Tang
Fox Face
Coral Beauty
Melanurus Wrasse
1 Resplendent Anthias
Royal Gramma
Pink Spot Watchman Goby
Bicolor Blenny
2 clowns
Mandarin

 

[crazyfishmom]

Did I read that correctly? That your nitrates are 0.2? This is considered extremely low.

 

[aaron186]

Did I read that correctly? That your nitrates are 0.2? This is considered extremely low.

Thank you for catching typo… Phosphates. I’ll fix it

 

[crazyfishmom]

Thank you for catching typo… Phosphates. I’ll fix it

Ok… makes more sense.

0.2 you start paying attention to but it’s nothing to be worried about quite yet. I don’t think you’re over feeding.

I might consider adding filter floss to the socks to see if increasing mechanical filtration a little might work.

Do you have a skimmer?

 

[aaron186]

Ok… makes more sense.

0.2 you start paying attention to but it’s nothing to be worried about quite yet. I don’t think you’re over feeding.

I might consider adding filter floss to the socks to see if increasing mechanical filtration a little might work.

Do you have a skimmer?

Yes I have a filter roller, a chaeto fuge, and a octo elite 150sss. I just changed the skimmer to be a little wetter tonight. I’m just curious if I’m in the ballpark of where I should be with food. Everything is growing well

 

[crazyfishmom]

Yes I have a filter roller, a chaeto fuge, and a octo elite 150sss. I just changed the skimmer to be a little wetter tonight. I’m just curious if I’m in the ballpark of where I should be with food. Everything is growing well

In my opinion, this number of cubes a day is totally reasonable.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I would start with one and see how fast they eat it. If the food is gone in 10-15 seconds I feed a little more. If food is still floating around after one minute, then I kick myself for feeding too much and feed a little less next time.

Then feed that same amount 2 or 3 times a day.

There is no number to tell you. You have to figure it out by trial and error. Remember you can add more but you can’t take it out.

 

[aaron186]

I would start with one and see how fast they eat it. If the food is gone in 10-15 seconds I feed a little more. If food is still floating around after one minute, then I kick myself for feeding too much and feed a little less next time.

Then feed that same amount 2 or 3 times a day.

There is no number to tell you. You have to figure it out by trial and error. Remember you can add more but you can’t take it out.

The issue is that I’m using an Avast Marine Plank that feeds freeze dried plankton. It comes on for 1 minute, 7x a day (every other hour while lights on) for a total of 2.33 cubes per day. Its multiple small feedings