Feeding requirement

[rferraro21]

Still kind of a newbie, I want to make sure I am feeding enough. I have a 72 gallon with 2 clowns, 2 Cardinals, 1 diamond goby, 1 six line wrasse, 1 yellow Tang, 1 coral banded shrimp, 1 star fish, about 8 turbo snails, 1 urchin, and 15 hermit crabs. As well as 10 or so frags of various corals. I feed half a cube of frozen every other day alternating with pellets, I drop about 10 to 15 pellets in, only the clowns and the bottom feeders eat them. I also do a pinch or two of flakes here and there which everyone seems to like. Every 3 days I hang a 1 in by 1 in square of nori for the Tang. Occasionally I will drop a pellet on some of the corals.

Thoughts?

 

[Brew12]

Still kind of a newbie, I want to make sure I am feeding enough. I have a 72 gallon with 2 clowns, 2 Cardinals, 1 diamond goby, 1 six line wrasse, 1 yellow Tang, 1 coral banded shrimp, 1 star fish, about 8 turbo snails, 1 urchin, and 15 hermit crabs. As well as 10 or so frags of various corals. I feed half a cube of frozen every other day alternating with pellets, I drop about 10 to 15 pellets in, only the clowns and the bottom feeders eat them. I also do a pinch or two of flakes here and there which everyone seems to like. Every 3 days I hang a 1 in by 1 in square of nori for the Tang. Occasionally I will drop a pellet on some of the corals.

Thoughts?

I don't have much algae in my tank so I feed my 2 tangs and 1 foxface two 2"x 3" sheets of nori a day. To me it sounds like you are underfeeding them unless you have a large number of copepods/amphipods and algae for them to graze.

 

[rferraro21]

I don't have much algae in my tank so I feed my 2 tangs and 1 foxface two 2"x 3" sheets of nori a day. To me it sounds like you are underfeeding them unless you have a large number of copepods/amphipods and algae for them to graze.

Thanks, are you just talking about the Tang or everything?

 

[Brew12]

Thanks, are you just talking about the Tang or everything?

I would say everything but then, I am a heavy feeder. I feed a piece of LRS fish frenzy every night along with pellets by auto feeder in the middle of the day. If your fish look healthy you could be fine.

 

[rferraro21]

Maybe I'll bump it up a little and see, it is my understanding that corals like a little nitrate, I've been reading 0 pretty consistently.

 

[Brew12]

Maybe I'll bump it up a little and see, it is my understanding that corals like a little nitrate, I've been reading 0 pretty consistently.

They do need some. Most people consider 3 to 5 to be on the low end without being ULNS