2 questions on feeding and anemones

Mgoc · Dec 15, 2013

I have a 180 gallon tank with shallow sand bed, LR, a 40 g breeder sump with a protein skimmer, filter socks and a small fuge are with chaeto and caulerpa. Mu livestock consists of 1 Yellow tang, 1 Blue tang (both around 3 to 4 inches) 1 maroon clownfish, 2 firefish, 1 coral beauty, 2 columbian shark catfish (10 and 7 inches) and 1 Common cleaner wrasse with a small CUC. I feed them twice a day and sometimes give them a little bit of Nori (which even the cleaner wrasse likes to eat) and these are my questions:

1. My nitrates wont come under 20-30 ppm, would it be safe for me to transfer my BTA from the QT to my DT?

2. Am I feeding too much? and if so, How can I make sure my cleaner wrasse is fed enough without having to feed everyone else all the time?

mallorieGgator · Dec 15, 2013

Do you rinse your food with ro/di before feeding? That may help some. How much are you feeding 2x a day? I would say only feed about a plastic spoon full twice a day. The cleaner wrasse can pick at the fish as well but if you're worried about him not getting enough try to feed very small amounts 2-3 times a day so none of it gets wasted. You can also turn off your pumps to avoid having the food blown into the rocks. Also, you may have some build up in your rocks. Take a turkey baster and blow out the rocks before a water change and syphon out the crud in the water column.

Mgoc · Dec 16, 2013

mallorieGgator said:
Do you rinse your food with ro/di before feeding? That may help some. How much are you feeding 2x a day? I would say only feed about a plastic spoon full twice a day. The cleaner wrasse can pick at the fish as well but if you're worried about him not getting enough try to feed very small amounts 2-3 times a day so none of it gets wasted. You can also turn off your pumps to avoid having the food blown into the rocks. Also, you may have some build up in your rocks. Take a turkey baster and blow out the rocks before a water change and syphon out the crud in the water column.

I feed them 1 cube twice a day and discard whatever is left over if the fish didnt seem to be too hungry. I used one of my pumps to blow out the rocks the last time I did a water change and it did help a little. Thanks for the help.