How Much Do You Feed Your Tank

How much do you feed your tank per day?

  • Almost nothing

    Votes: 20 23.5%
  • 1-2 cubes

    Votes: 41 48.2%
  • 3-4 cubes

    Votes: 11 12.9%
  • 5-8 cubes

    Votes: 3 3.5%
  • 9-16 Cubes

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  • 17-30 Cubes

    Votes: 3 3.5%
  • There's no way of even knowing that

    Votes: 2 2.4%

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MPS

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I know that I’m over feeding but it’s intentional at this point. I have a copperband Butterfly that was on a hunger strike upon arrival. I struggled to find food it would eat until I tried LRS Reef Frenzy. Now, I’m just working to get her back to a healthy weight. Additionally, I’ve added three tangs that, even after medicated QT, they picked up ich. I can’t catch them without causing more harm so I’m feeding nori and pellets soaked in Selcom to help boost their immune system and fight through it.
I feed twice a day, enough that it’s gone within 10min. What the fish don’t eat, the anemone and NPS coral pick up.
125gal display, EShopps S300 skimmer, filter sock, and lots of live rock
1 pair of clowns
1 pair of blue chromis
3 banded cardinals
Midas Blenny
Copperband Butterfly
Purple tang
Powder brown tang
Blond Naso Tang
Snow flake Eel (he gets ghost shrimp or silversides 2x a week)
Coral beauty angel
Flame angel
Nitrates and phosphates are embarrassingly high and I’m currently working to get them back in check.
 

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I do 1 to 2 cubes a day, half in morning and half in evening, along with some seaweed extreme pellets in the morning. I have 16 fish, my biggest is a yellow tang and every thing else is smaller. 2 clowns, 2 clown gobies, a fire fish, a sand goby, a couple cardinals, 4 wrasses, a chromis , a RGB and a valentini puffer. Everyone is growing and happy.
 

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Newbie here so any critiquing is ok.75 G Tank 3 months old, no sump, run HOB protein skimmer, just started adding some simpler corals,
stock list:
3 damsels(domino,3 stripe, blue devil) I know , I know....they were first test fish and didn't expect them to make it :)
coral beauty
ocelarus clown
bangai cardinal
scooter blenny
skunk cleaner shrimp
5-8 hermit crabs
3 asst snails (going today to buy 10-15 more)
I feel I over feed but find it hard to regulate feeding frozen with turkey baster....I give 4-5 squirts per feeding twice a day of frozen cubes that ive mixed with tank water and allowed to defrost in fridge
I turn off wave maker and protein skimmer while I feed so that some of food drifts down for skooter and I give cardinal a squirt of his own since hes hiding up in corner (only been in tank 2 days)after 5 mnutes I turn waver back on and 10 minutes later turn skimmer back on to clean things up. this seems to be working but I worry im not feeding enough of a mix and that im overfeeding
 

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110 Gallon with sump
1 year old tank
Protein Skimmer
6 Fish
Shrimp
cuc
Anemone
Rock Anemone
Elegance
LPS

I feed 1"x 1" of Rods food mixed with about a tablespoon of Spectrum Pellets once a day.
1/4 sheet of Nori every couple
Feed the Anemone and Elegance one Krill every 2-3 Days

I will throw in some pellets at night sometimes.
 

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5 Cubes
1/2 sheet (roughly) of Nori
6 ml Reef Energy AB+ (every other day)

125 gallon tank, about 100lbs of live rock, 80lbs of live sand, dual sumps, running filter socks, poly filter, and Algae Turf Scrubber

1 large 8-9" Sailfin Tang
1 med 5" Bicolor Foxface
1 med 4" Japanese Swallowtail Angel
1 Starry Blenny
1 Small Boxfish
1 Firefish
2 Melanurus Wrasse
1 Kauderns Cardinal
1 Misbar and 1 Wymoming White Clownfish
1 Cleaner Wrasse
1 Six-line Wrasse
1 Black Sailfin Blenny
1 Wide Barred Goby
Large Brittle Starfish
Med Orange Linicka Starfish
Small Sandsifting Starfish
5 Emerald Crabs
Various Snails
1 Hermit Crab that hitched in with the snails
I'm sure I've forgotten someone

In QT since they are brand new and noone goes into DT until they pass QT - Royal Gramma and Stripped Dottyback

Mixed Reef varying from softies and zoas to LPS & SPS and with all of this - we would love some Xenia but it melts every time we put it in so we gave up on Xenia

Tank is 2 years old and started out FOWLR then switched to Mixed Reef when we had to go fishless due to ICH and didn't want an empty tank
 

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