How much to feed these fish?

[ChrisKSB]

I've read tons of articles/posts and at this point I feel like I should start throwing a cube of food in every hour!

They always seem hungry and will eat as much or as often as I feed.

180 gallon tank with -

• 2x Diamond Gobies
• Koran Angel
• Blue Hippo Tang
• Tomini Tang
• One Spot Foxface
• Gold Rim Tang
• Flame Angel
• Tons of crabs/snails and serpent star

Currently feeding

2 random cubes of these, twice per day -

• Blood Worms
• Mysis Shrimp
• Brine Shrimp
• Spirulina Brine Shrimp

Plus daily Nori on a clip

Here is the crew -

 

[JumboShrimp]

Confucius say: "Fish will ALWAYS look hungry!"

 

[bluemon]

I think i feed at least 5 times more than you for a 125 gallon with an equivalently properly stocked for my sized tank.

I would also add way more variety.

I would skip the bloodworms as that is more freshwater focused, and add more to it than mysis and brine shrimp.

Things like Rods or LRS is a good start, and you DEFINITELY should feed nori. You have so many herbivores.

But what I do is I make a bunch of custom seafood blends. Way cheaper

 

[ChrisKSB]

Googling Rods and LRS!

If I went to the local seafood place in town and got a random assortment of fish/shrimp/clams etc... blended and froze - would that make a good healthy diet? I'm in Santa Barbara, CA and we have some excellent fresh seafood options!

@bluemon - interested in the custom seafood blends!!!!

 

[bluemon]

Googling Rods and LRS!

If I went to the local seafood place in town and got a random assortment of fish/shrimp/clams etc... blended and froze - would that make a good healthy diet? I'm in Santa Barbara, CA and we have some excellent fresh seafood options!

@bluemon - interested in the custom seafood blends!!!!

Yes, I’m in SoCal too.

What I do is, I go to an Asian Supermarket, I prefer Ranch 99 as they have the cheapest, buy a bunch of frozen seafood (squid, shrimp, fish are easy to find frozen in boxes in bulk), grab some fresh clams and mussels, blend them all up (not TOO fine though), add some random dried foods like pellets and reef roids, spirulina, thawed mysis, and freeze in zip lock baggies.


Super cheap and healthy

Some tips:

Don’t add too much spirulina powder, they get clumpy.

Don’t process the seafood too much in your food processor. Vary up the chunkiness depending on fish.

Shucking clams is hell. Does help a bit if frozen, but still sucks.

Rinse and freeze everything in RO water


For reference, I got about 100 dollars worth of seafood around 6 months ago, and it’s almost out now, and I feed HEAVY