How much, and what, to feed, mixed reef.

[BryanM]

So I've read several times that fish poop = good coral food. Seems weird, but I'm sure its accurate, and I'm still absorbing information.

I've also read a fair number of people would not use a UV filter, and I do now have a Derasa clam, as well as there are a lot of feather dusters, being hitch hikers on the live rock I used to start the tank.

I currently have: 1 powder blue tang, 1 Foxface, a pair of clowns, 1 six line wrasse, 1 diamond back goby, and one filefish that I am hoping like hell has a taste for aptasia (not a lot of it, but wanting it gone).

I also have 3 hammer type corals, a red bubble tip anemone (2 really, it split), and two other corals I cannot remember their names off the top of my head right now .... Oh, and a white rock flower anemone, and a gorgonian.

I very haphazardly randomly feed either frozen mysis, TDO Chroma, or a seaweed product that was highly recommended. I don't measure squat, no one is fighting thankfully, but I'm a little concerned that I probably should be feeding more, and more than just one thing.

Today's filtering is a reefmat 500, dc skimmer 600, and an AquaUV 25 light.... Depending on how this convo goes I'm thinking of turning the light off, even though I'm going to worry a ton about algae if I do....

 

[Jekyl]

Heavy in and heavy out is the best method. Feeding multiple times a day and vary food as much as possible. I usually keep 5-7 different frozen, nori, and TDO pellets on hand.

 

[KrisReef]

I like to feed my LPS and anemones with drift fish food if they catch it, or fish recycled food if they don't.

More variety is a very good idea. I like to get live clams, mussels, and frozen shrimp that I chop up and freeze to feed my fishes and reef, or else I feed them fresh when I bring home these items.

 

[Rach77]

Also agree with Jekyl, variety is best. I also feed approx 3 times daily, by hand, no automation. I use a variety of pellets (veggie, algae, OmegaOne) nori, frozen, the only thing I absolutely use daily is small zooplankton. I have found that nothing in my tank including inverts likes the Nutramar sticky pellets. I also use RedSea Reef Energy Plus liquid every other day.