Fish feeding ???'s

[Salty-Noob]

How much do you feed your fish?

Do you feed your fish everyday?

Can you go every other day without feeding?

Is it bad to do so?

 

[boehm742]

All depends on what fish you have, for example a tang and an anthias have completely different feeding requirements. This is a very vague question without knowing what kind of fish you're feeding.

 

[Salty-Noob]

Ok here goes I have

2 percula clowns

1 firefish

1 cleaner shrimp

2 nems which I'm starting to hand feed

All in a biocube 29g

 

[mike007]

I feed everyday. Only enough that fish consume in 2-3 minutes and never let food hit bottom. With that size tank you will have to be carefull so as not to overfeed and have a nutrient problem.

 

[Salty-Noob]

I feed everyday. Only enough that fish consume in 2-3 minutes and never let food hit bottom. With that size tank you will have to be carefull so as not to overfeed and have a nutrient problem.

That's what I was getting at. I did have a nutrient problem. Had to syphon all the crap out

It's all the red stuff and now it looks like this so I have to keep cleaning it till it goes away

 

[glb]

It's way better to underfeed than over feed.


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12g Nanoreef. Zooanthids, Ricordia, Star Polyps, Acans and two clownfish. CF Lighting, 75% actinic blue, 25% 10,000k white.

 

[mike007]

Red stuff is cyno. Same thing applies to all algae problems excess nutrients or phosphates.

 

[Salty-Noob]

Red stuff is cyno. Same thing applies to all algae problems excess nutrients or phosphates.

In the process of fixing this. Bought a reef safe chemical that is supposed to get rid of it

 

[that novice guy]

It's way better to underfeed than over feed.

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I have to disagree with you, why would you starve your fish and create more aggression and frayed fins. If you feed your tank a lot you need to have a better skimmer and filtration, while also doing bigger water changes, or more frequent small water changes

 

[reef4beer]

+1

I prefer to keep my fish well fed.

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[Salty-Noob]

I kinda trickle the food in small segments. Making sure each fish has its fair share

 

[Aqua fire/medic]

With that livestock you could get away with every other day if needed.

 

[navila06]

I like to feed my fish everyday. twice a day mysis, brine and flakes 2-3 minutes worth of food per feeding and nothing touches the bottom, I also feed nori to my tangs every day. 3x3 square.

 

[glb]

I didn't say starve them. I just meant that they're fine if you feed them a little less and that it's much worse for the tank to have extra food floating around.


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[Salty-Noob]

I didn't say starve them. I just meant that they're fine if you feed them a little less and that it's much worse for the tank to have extra food floating around.


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Yeah extra food lying around is definitely not good learned that the hard way