What time is chow time: How often do you feed your fish?

[steveschuerger]

Daily in the mid/late morning. 1 cube mysis, and I cube omnivore frozen, and 1 cube carnivore mix. Every other day frozen cyclops or “coral gumbo”. I feed my larger polyped lps such as Micromussas and Bowers as well as my 2 Frogspawn some of it as well.

 

[Cheezle]

I feed 3 times a day, my citron goby and flame tail blenny will swim together and hangout in the corner closest to my computer when they are hungry. It's adorable, they're fat and healthy and my nutrients aren't out of control.

Had to take a pic to share. These 2 fatties expect 3 meals minimum and they know how to get my attention when they're hungry lol

 

[aws2266]

5pm daily, then I eat.
My tangs get a 1/4 sheet of nori in the am and then everyone eats at 5.

OMG, why didn't I think of that? I'm starting a new position at work and will have to go into the office full-time for a few weeks while I'm training. Been wondering how I was going to feed them twice a day. They all love the nori I put in there for the clown and tang, so I think that's what I'll do. That's why I love coming here, everyone does things a little differently and that's a tremendous help when others find themselves in similar situations.

On to my feeding routine.

My 120g reef I feed twice a day. A mixture of frozen Mysis Shrimp and Emerald Entree. Then a sheet of nori at some point during the day. I have a rbta that I feed on the same schedule as the lionfish below. She'll get some frozen squid on those days.

3 green chromis
2 clownfish
1 possum wrasse
1 yellow coris wrasse
1 yellow watchman goby
1 blue tang

My 55g Predator tank is a different story. I feed them frozen squid once a day. The lionfish gets fed live guppies or roseys every other day.
1 dragon wrasse
1 picasso trigger
1 fiji damsel
1 dwarf lionfish

 

[aws2266]

My auto feeder drops pellets in at 2 and 8 and I feed frozen at 6pm daily

As stated in my post earlier, I'm going to be going into the office full-time for a few weeks and looking at ways to get the fish fed while I'm gone. I have a couple of auto feeders from when we went on vacation last year. I like feeding my fish and didn't want to continue to buy pellets so I've not used them since. One of my options is to finally bite the bullet and use the feeder full-time. What kind of pellets are you using and what kind of fish do you have?

 

[homer1475]

As stated in my post earlier, I'm going to be going into the office full-time for a few weeks and looking at ways to get the fish fed while I'm gone. I have a couple of auto feeders from when we went on vacation last year. I like feeding my fish and didn't want to continue to buy pellets so I've not used them since. One of my options is to finally bite the bullet and use the feeder full-time. What kind of pellets are you using and what kind of fish do you have?

I have not found a fish that will not eat TDO chromoboost. One of the best pellets on the market.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Over 130 fish -- Mostly Smalls




Dave B

Wow! What size tanks is this? It looks like it’s over 1,000 gallons!

 

[AydenLincoln]

I feed once a day to every other day. I feed sparingly because it’s easy for me to pollute the tank/my nutrients have always been high.

 

[SeaShine]

Twice a day in a 20 gallon. I try to spot feed since my bristle worms are getting bigger!

 

[Timfish]

I've been very happy using Spectrum pellets in autofeeders feeding multiple small amounts daily.

 

[Jonreefer]

2-3 times a day for mine

 

[BettytheDancer]

I was feeding daily, but we have backed down to every other day

 

[BettytheDancer]

However, I think i learned what too much was for my little reef. Trial and error.

 

[vtecintegra]

I'll never understand the logic of restricting food to an animal that snacks all day in the wild. And if you can't feed a couple times a day without getting high nitrate and phosphate, you've failed to incorporate adequate filtration.

 

[Operation Philo Beddoe]

What time is chow time: How often do you feed your fish?

Some reef keepers feed their fish a lot and others feed sparingly. Sometimes the fish are feed often and other times the fish are feed less often. It has been said that fish are always grazing in the ocean and it has also been said that fish can go several days or more without food. In some cases the fish are intentionally fed heavily so that the extra food and fish waste will become food for the corals in the tank. Of course, filtration requirements need to be factored into this approach. So what time is chow time for your fish? How often do you add fish food to your tank? Please share your thoughts about fish feeding frequency in the comments.

Photo by @Easyreefs

10 Tangs and a Goldflake Angel. 9am 1/2 sheet Nori and Rods Frozen. 2pm Rods again, 6pm Nori 1/2 sheet and Rods foods.
Double SK5000 filter rolls, biopellets, Refugium, massive Pentair UV. Nitrates down to 35 after a year with the 300 gallon tank. I feed small amounts like Victor of WWC recommended. Less food, more often. At least I’m trying to cut back. Corals awaiting NO3 reduction happily in frag tank.

Royal Gramma are the most underrated fish in my opinion, I have 3 in this pic and they are always in the water column. :)

 

[Operation Philo Beddoe]

I feed 3 turkey basters of (frozen premixed frozen foods, 3-4 shots of Selcon, half teaspoon of reef roids all mixed with RO water in a 1 liter bottle) two times a day once at 1 PM and at 8 PM

I had a buddy swore by using a ketchup bottle to squirt some in. I always meant to try it. Currently thawing frozen and feeding with chop sticks. Fish see a chop stick in my house and get ready for food :)

 

[LOONEBIN]

I put nori in every morning at 6:30 for the tangs. Fish/corals are fed a mixture of different frozen foods soaked in Brightwell’s Garlic Power and Selcon every day around Noon. I have an auto feeder that drops in PE pellets twice a day in the afternoon and evening. Also, sometimes I throw in more pellets when I pass by the tank cause the fish follow me and guilt me into giving them more food.

 

[Jason Miller]

Man you guys are crazy, I feed twice a week

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Minimum twice a day on the dry grub (pellets or flake) via auto feeder. Sheet of nori 3x a week when im home and at least one serving of diy frozen food daily also when I'm home.

 

[sbbk]

I feed pellets or flakes once per day. Nori ¼ sheet 2-3 times a week. One frozen cube, vary which type - cyclops, mysis, shrimp+algae once per week. Sometimes I'll add a small feeding when watching fish or showing off tank. As long as the shyest eater is eating I stick to this program. If not, I'll do a second frozen cube. I will feed coral 1/ week soon, not feeding them yet.

Tank is 125 gallons with about 8 fish plus coral. Doing reef for about 6 months so far.

 

[Reefer Matt]

Once, every other day.