Feeding enough?

[TroyClark]

I have a 5 ft. 120 with a 40 gallon sump. I have the following fish and inverts.

1-Yellow Tang
1-Pacific Blue Tang
2-Oscellaris Clowns
1-Falco Hawkfish
1-Coral Beauty
1-Lawnmower Blenny
3-Bangii Cardinals

3-BTA (1 green and 2 rose)
2-Leather Toadstool Coral
Kenya Tree Corals (many)
Blue mushroom corals (20-25)
Hermits and snails.

I am currently feeding 1 frozen mysis cube and 1 frozen blood worm cubes per day.

I try to always have green and purple seaweed in a mesh holder at all times.

Does this sound like I am feeding enough.

I used to feed NLS pellets but had an overfeeding issue cause a huge algae outbreak as well as over run of vermetid snails. . Feed the pellets sparingly now.

Thanks for the insight.

Troy

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

Topigraphically, I would say no. But depends on a few factors. What are your nutrient levels and what are your nutrient export processes

 

[RedReefer]

2 cubes a day in a 120 is minimum, but adequate for the number and type of fish you have. What's your filtration setup?

 

[TroyClark]

2 cubes a day in a 120 is minimum, but adequate for the number and type of fish you have. What's your filtration setup?

I have about 50 pounds of liverock in the DT. I have a 55 gallon home made sump with many bags of Seachem Matrix rock for filtration running at 900 GPH. I run a Clear Water CW-100 scrubber, I have bio-pellets in a dual BRS reactor, I also have GFO and carbon in another BRS dual reactor. My ammonia, nitrite is zero. Nitrate is barely detectible. Phosphates are .01. All other parameters are within desirable limits.

 

[RedReefer]

No skimmer. You probably good.

 

[Jekyl]

I feed 1 cube a day in a 90 gallon. Have for years. Never lost a fish.

 

[TroyClark]

No skimmer. You probably good.

Forgot, I also run a Octo 150SSS protein skimmer but its fed primarily from the Bio-pellet output water.

 

[minus9]

I love feeding a variety of foods, flakes, pellets and frozen. To me, variety is the key to fish healthy and color. LRS is the only frozen food I currently use and I feed it 2-3x a day. I have 2 types of NLS pellets (Algaemax & standard) in the auto feeder, which feeds twice a day. I also hand feed TDO chromaboost 2-3x a day, then I feed cool green & cool mysis flakes twice a day. I offer nori, but my tomini and scopus are busy picking at algae and ignore it mostly.
This may sound like a ton of food, but I’m only feeding what the fish can eat in a short period of time. If there’s any leftover food, the CUC make quick work of it. I don’t think I’ve fed a cube of mysis in years.