Just wondering if anyone has some tips for feeding more or how you went about finding the right balance for your tank?
I've got a One spot foxface which is apparently a bit of a pig and reminded me that they're 'reef safe with caution' recently after it devoured nearly $200 aud worth of zoas.
Currently I feed pellets once in the morning using an auto feeder around 8am (1 spin) and once in the evening around 5.30 (2 spins). This food is eaten up very quickly both times by the inhabitants and I don't think too much if anything is left behind.
I also try and feed a sheet of nori 4cm x 8cm (approx) in the morning and again in the afternoon.
When it actually did start eating the zoas I even upped it to 3 sheets (adding one during the middle of the day) as I was WFH for a week.
I've rarely been able to feed it to the point where it wasn't crazy for nori and left it, I think this happened one time during that WFH week. Yet still it managed to eat most of my zoas.
The fish is what I consider a nice size and definitely not skinny, maybe borderline plump but not fat. Every other fish in the tank also looks to be well fed and not skinny so I suspect everyone's getting enough ?
My nitrates seem to sit around 12-18ish ppm currently and phosphate around 0.11. I don't want to increase the nitrates and phosphates anymore than they are.
Is it worth trying to increase the feeding frequency by adding another feeding in the middle of the day with the auto feeder?
Should I increase the size of the feedings from the auto feeder?
Do I try and increase the output of the skim? (lately I usually only empty maybe once a week-ish?)
Or do I just leave it as is because it seems to work well (apart from the eating zoas part) and just don't buy zoas in future ? haha
Have any of you had this issue with a fish and were you able to overcome it?
I've got a One spot foxface which is apparently a bit of a pig and reminded me that they're 'reef safe with caution' recently after it devoured nearly $200 aud worth of zoas.
Currently I feed pellets once in the morning using an auto feeder around 8am (1 spin) and once in the evening around 5.30 (2 spins). This food is eaten up very quickly both times by the inhabitants and I don't think too much if anything is left behind.
I also try and feed a sheet of nori 4cm x 8cm (approx) in the morning and again in the afternoon.
When it actually did start eating the zoas I even upped it to 3 sheets (adding one during the middle of the day) as I was WFH for a week.
I've rarely been able to feed it to the point where it wasn't crazy for nori and left it, I think this happened one time during that WFH week. Yet still it managed to eat most of my zoas.
The fish is what I consider a nice size and definitely not skinny, maybe borderline plump but not fat. Every other fish in the tank also looks to be well fed and not skinny so I suspect everyone's getting enough ?
My nitrates seem to sit around 12-18ish ppm currently and phosphate around 0.11. I don't want to increase the nitrates and phosphates anymore than they are.
Is it worth trying to increase the feeding frequency by adding another feeding in the middle of the day with the auto feeder?
Should I increase the size of the feedings from the auto feeder?
Do I try and increase the output of the skim? (lately I usually only empty maybe once a week-ish?)
Or do I just leave it as is because it seems to work well (apart from the eating zoas part) and just don't buy zoas in future ? haha
Have any of you had this issue with a fish and were you able to overcome it?