What do you feed? and how much?

JuniorMC8704 · Jul 13, 2009

Just curious what everyone feeds their fish and Corals, how much, and how often.

I feed my fish at least twice a day, which includes a random combination of Rod's Food, Artic Pods, and PE mysis. Usually a 1" x 1" chuck of rods, and 2-4 table spoons of artic pods. Tangs are fed 1-2 full sheets of sushi grade nori a day when i remember.

I have all intentions of getting a good auto feeder (like Alex has) that will feed a small amount of spectrum pellets 3-4 times a day.

Corals are fed whatever the fish miss, and then are weekly spot fed with PE mysis, a sand storm of frozen cyclopeze & rotifers, and the extra large LPS like my elegance, and rhyzos are fed large chunks of silver sides.

My anemone tank is heavily fed, every two days.

My rock anemone and RBTA split a 3"+ silverside, and my Carpet anemone gets a full large silverside 2-3 times a week.

Also, something ive gotten in the habit of is completely slamming the tank with every food i have available about a half hour before a large water change. The filter sock pulls out any that doesn't get consumed, and its not in the system long enough to hurt anything. This seems to have had some excellent results.

AZDesertRat · Jul 13, 2009

I was always told to consider a fishes stomach to be about the same size as his eyeballs and feed accordingly. This works well and I have had numerous saltwater fish live past 13 years old and quite healthy.
I feed once a day and usually skip a day every day or two so they really get fed maybe 5 times a week. This includes tangs, wrasses, clowns and gobies.
Food consists of PE frozen mysis, spirulina flake, Cyclopeeze in the Freezerbar form and some nori or seaweed sheets is small amounts.
The anemones get fed by the hosted clowns and get no special treatment. My Sebae anemone is now 19 years old, I purchased it from Payless Aquarium Supply which was later bought by Petco. The RBTA is over 5 years old and I cannot count the amount of times it has split, I have 3 clones in the tank now.
No filter sponges, floss, socks or any mechanical filtration is used and the water is crystal clear in both systems.

Poseidon · Jul 13, 2009

I feed this once a day, 1" square of Rods, 1" square of PE Mysis, 1 tablespoon of Arctipods, and 1 tablespoon of Oyster feast. I also throw in spectrum pellets when I think about it... Usually once or twice a day. For the heavy feeding I put the tank on standby for 7 minutes, which kills the return pump and the skimmer, but not the Vortechs.

AZDesertRat · Jul 13, 2009

Man you guys seem to fed a lot! What size are your systems and what are its inhabitants?
My large system is a 100G with a 30G sump, a pair of clowns, 1 medium yelow tang, 1 medium sixline wrasse, 1 medium foxface rabbit fish and 1 purple pseudochromis. Corals are mixed mostly SPS and LPS with some zoanthids, hairy mushrooms, ricordias and 3 or 4 RBTA's.

My small system is a 16G bowfront with a pair of clowns and 1 yellow watchman goby. Corals are mostly softies including mushrooms, ricordeas, sand polyps, zoanthids, candy corals and the 19 year old sebae anemone.

I could'nt imagine feeding any more than I do and having decent water quality. The fish are all up to 6 years old and doing great with what I feed them and corals get fragged like crazy due to overgrowth.

FiReBReTHa · Jul 13, 2009

I feed rods every other day, herbivore and normal.

and twice a day I put nori in the clip.

JGoslee · Jul 13, 2009

I feed the fish twice a day with nls pellets and nls flakes I also feed a sheet of nori each day.

I feed rotifeast and pytofeast at lights out each night for the corals.

I also chop up raw shrimp and feed that about twice a week.

Azurel · Jul 13, 2009

I feed my fish and corals 2x a day with Hikari mysis, cyclop-eeze, reef plankton, golden pearls, coral frenzy and Azoo flake. I don't feed all of that 2x day but I will switch it up each time.....I have 6 fish pair of B&W clowns, pair of red firefish, Sailfin Tang, and a Redhead Pseudochromis. I have 2 fish coming tomorrow so I won't add that to the count yet.

Paul_N · Jul 13, 2009

I feed in the am before work AA's(1 drop) and rotifers(1 cube) then Rod's Food (1"X1") around dinner after I get home and New Life Spectrum (1/2 tsp) a few hours later. Then feed the AA's and rotifers again before bed.

eggie · Jul 13, 2009

lol Junior I hope you got WIC help to feed all your animals
I only feed once a day and change between rods food, brine shrimp, pellets and formula 1 and 2 frozen corales get feed directly once a week with rods and cyclopeez

ahayes13 · Jul 14, 2009

i feed three times a day (a small amt)--- due to my juvenile clownfish. and i usually feed them with spectrum pellets or cyclopeze. which all my fish seem to enjoy both.(fish currently in tank are the pair of onyx, lineatus, mccoskers wrasse, and a purple firefish)
i feed my corals probably three times a week. i use a mix of rods (very small piece), phytofeast, oysterfeast, dried cyclopeze, and frozen rotis. i just make a lil stew of it, i feed my sps, lps, and of course my fish thoroughly enjoy it. i dont make much, its probably a couple tablespoons at most.

mhowe9 · Jul 17, 2009

I generally feed once a day in the evening. I usually feed mysis or frozen formula one which I add garlic and selcon to. When I had tangs, I would feed them an algae strip once a day also. I would also try to alternate that between the green and the red algae.

143gadgets · Jul 17, 2009

I like to keep it simple. I feed 6 cubes of Hikari Mysis each day. Small numerous feeding throughout the day. Once a week I feed a little cyclopeeze.

seascape · Jul 17, 2009

what you have to feed them.LOL

afboundguy · Jul 18, 2009

I feed my fish every 1-3 days and at the same time usually the corals. I do a mix of brine and mysis shrimp. I do about 3 cubes for my 55 with 5 fish (1 in QT) and a lot of LPS that I spot feed...

Bri Guy · Jul 19, 2009

Rods Food!!

Jason edwards · Jul 19, 2009

I feed everyday at 6am. Sometimes late in the afternoon as well. I feed Selcon enriched mysis (about a cubes worth) Every other day I feed a cube of Enriched mysis. Once a week I dump in about a 1/2 litre of phyto and randomly some coralfrenzy and or Selcon enriched rotifers. Every night at about 11pm I dose Koralle-vm, Vitamin C, Coral Amino, Reef biofuel, Koral color, Replenish, Iodide, Microbacter 7 and Zooplanktos= well feed happy reef.

Coral Keeper · Jul 19, 2009

I feed my tank 3-4 times a day with home made fishfood. Each feeding gets about 4 grams of homemade fish food. (Yeah, I weigh the fish food each time I feed. lol) I have 24 fish and lots of inverts/corals.... soo.... yeah lol

TonyB · Jul 19, 2009

I have a 120g display, 160 system that houses 20 fish and a couple hundred corals.

I feed a moderate "pinch" of Omega One flake when I get home. An hour or so later I feed the equivalent of 1.5 cubes worth of either PE mysis, chopped krill or frozen enriched brine. I also feed a small amount of live blackworms daily for my copperband that wont eat anything else.