Need help creating a feeding schedule.

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I know I have been feeling to much based on others post on the subject. I just needed some help creating my own. I have tried feeding based on how much they eat but no mater what they always seem hungry. I also am worried about a valentine puffer nipping cora/tankmates (so far so good).
What I am thinking is spot feeding the puffer to make sure it is full 2x a day and feeding the rest a mix of what I have frozen 1x a day. Having a nitrates problem and I am thinking this is contributing to it a lot.

Live stock:
2x clowns
1x blue tang
1x valentini puffer
1x golden head goby
1x Fromia starfish
1x skunk shrimp
4x turbo snails
10x trochus snails
1x Duncan coral
1x Birdsnest coral
1x green zoa
1x purple paly
1x sea bae anemone

Foods available:
Frozen mysis
Frozen brine
Live brine hatched 1st batch today trying for 1st time
Frozen squid
Frozen mussles
Frozen krill
Reef roids
Reef jerky
Seaweed sheats
Prime reef flakes

current schedule:
2x cubes frozen mysis per day
2x cubes frozen brine per day
either frozen squid or frozen krill 1x per day
Leave a mussel in tank for snack for puffer
Leave 1inch sheet of seaweed for blue tang replace every 24hrs
 

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Cut out the frozen brine
Instead chop the squid and mussels and feed about a cubes worth instead
Also reef roids can be a nitrate contributer
 
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Thanks I feed reef roids 2x a week, I use a pipette and what ever I can get into the tube then I fill it with tank water and mixed then spot feed the few corals I have
 
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Cut out the frozen brine
Instead chop the squid and mussels and feed about a cubes worth instead
Also reef roids can be a nitrate contributer
I got the mussels for the puffer to use and wear its teeth down, should I chop it up with the shell?
 
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