Help with feeding

Yvi · Feb 10, 2016

How often do you feed your fish? I have 3 tangs (Sailfin, hippo and a Yellow tang), 2 clowns, a Percula in a 90 gallon tank. I've heard a couple times a day, once a day, 3 times per week?

redfishbluefish · Feb 10, 2016

What's important with tangs is that they get algae every day. In addition, something meaty. I have two tangs and they get half a sheet (oriental market nori) every day. Mine get fed once a day (nori and something meaty).

FYI, that Sailfin gets real big....a 90 is way too small.

Yvi · Feb 10, 2016

Thank you. The Sailfin is big, bigger then anything else in there. How big do they usually get?

redfishbluefish · Feb 10, 2016

A foot and a half across. A fellow reefer had one in a 450 gallon tank (full grown) and that tank looked too small.

jetmaker · Feb 10, 2016

I feed hearty 2 times a day and nori but I do have a good export system.

jetmaker · Feb 10, 2016

Yvi said:
Thank you. The Sailfin is big, bigger then anything else in there. How big do they usually get?

You just have to trade it in when it gets to big. For future of the tank I would go with a kole or Tommi

Yvi · Feb 10, 2016

redfishbluefish said:
A foot and a half across. A fellow reefer had one in a 450 gallon tank (full grown) and that tank looked too small.

Wow !!!

jetmaker · Feb 10, 2016

Yvi said:
Wow !!!

Yeah they get big lol

Yvi · Feb 10, 2016

jetmaker said:
I feed hearty 2 times a day and nori but I do have a good export system.

Do you have a problem with nitrate levels and/or algae feeding them every day?

jetmaker · Feb 10, 2016

Yvi said:
Do you have a problem with nitrate levels and/or algae feeding them every day?

No I have a good skimmer and chaeto in the fuge I could probably feed more than that if I wanted to I have no bad algae..

Yvi · Feb 10, 2016

jetmaker said:
No I have a good skimmer and chaeto in the fuge I could probably feed more than that if I wanted to I have no bad algae..

Okay, thanks

jetmaker · Feb 10, 2016

The chaeto eats nutrients that bad algae needs to grow. So therefore no bad algae.

jetmaker · Feb 10, 2016

Yvi said:
Okay, thanks

Welcome

Yvi · Feb 10, 2016

jetmaker said:
The chaeto eats nutrients that bad algae needs to grow. So therefore no bad algae.

I will look into that.

jetmaker · Feb 10, 2016

Yvi said:
I will look into that.

Kewl you won't be disappointed

OGFrenchHorn · Feb 10, 2016

Yvi said:
How often do you feed your fish? I have 3 tangs (Sailfin, hippo and a Yellow tang), 2 clowns, a Percula in a 90 gallon tank. I've heard a couple times a day, once a day, 3 times per week?

I feed twice a day. Frozen in the morning and pellets in the evening.