Do you feed your tank at night?

[Fishfreak2009]

Does anyone here feed their reef after dark?

I have a few nocturnal fish, some of whom only come out with no tank or room lights on late at night (yellow brotulid pair). In order to make sure they get enough food I feed frozen brine or mysis 3x weekly around midnight. I also feed a clam on the half shell or piece of squid to the horseshoe crab most nights after lights out. And of course, I regularly dose live phyto, baby brine, and reef roids at night for those corals that have open feeding tentacles at night (gorgonians, some of the LPS, Acros, etc).

It's amazing to see how much more active the cardinalfish are after dark as well, and the inverts are all much more active. Corals are shrunk in for the night but feeder tentacles are all extended. It's like a totally different reef.

Picture is of the male yellow brotulid back when it was in quarantine. These fish are basically impossible to photograph in the display.

 

[Catnip885]

I feed my corals but the brunns cleaner shrimp and hermits take their tax out of it

 

[SeaweedLife]

I feed phyto in the late evening but have never considered other food items. I have sleepy fish though

 

[19Mateo83]

I night feed my Duncan’s and trumpets pellets and I also feed reef roids into the water column for the rest. I do this about once a week

 

[fish farmer]

I should wait until my candy cane and brains have opened after lights out to feed them, but I'm usually in bed.

 

[Paul B]

I have a few nocturnal fish, some of whom only come out with no tank or room lights on late at night (yellow brotulid pair).

I had one of those for 18 years and probably only saw it 3 or 4 times except if I looked for it at night using a flashlight. Very cool fish you will never see. They are only active at night.

I killed it by accident because I removed some rocks to aquascape and left it out all night not realizing that fish was in it.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I had one of those for 18 years and probably only saw it 3 or 4 times except if I looked for it at night using a flashlight. Very cool fish you will never see. They are only active at night.

I killed it by accident because I removed some rocks to aquascape and left it out all night not realizing that fish was in it.

They are really neat fish, just have to look with a flashlight to see them. I'm hoping since they are livebearers and I have a male and female, I'll find fry in the filter sock or refugium some day.

 

[UtahReefer]

Always feed my corals in the dark. Twice per day, one at night and the other early AM.

 

[srobertb]

Used to have a pair of soldier fish that were nocturnal so food for them at night was important. Lights out at 8. Red light kicked in so you could still see the tank. Soldier fish, spider crabs, shrimp, etc came out as the day fish went to bed. Was like having 2 tanks in one.

I think it’s a fantastic dynamic to have some nocturnal fish but at this point in my life with kids our house shuts down at 8pm when the day lights go out so there’s not really going to be any enjoyment of them as they’ll be awake when we are in bed.

 

[ab-774819]

Always feed my corals in the dark. Twice per day, one at night and the other early AM.

I'm terrified of over feeding and the effects it might have on the corals... what do you feed?