How do you feed?

[lolgranny]

I feed 2xs a day. Before I leave for work, and at night. I take tank water in a red solo cup( I hopeI didn’t get that song in your head) toss in a healthy portion of food, thaw, stir, dump into tank.

Do any of you thaw a lot, refrigerate it, pour throughout the day? Would be easier overall for the wife to even do it.

let me know how you get at it.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I add a portion to a small shallow bowl, allow to thaw in RO water then spoon feed

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

I do the same as above except I thaw in tank water. I find it floats if I soak with RoDi and sinks if I soak with tank water. I use my coral feeder to target feed my fish and corals

 

[ca1ore]

I thaw as much as I am going to feed for the day (usually twice) first thing in the morning. I don't bother to refrigerate it. I feed nori first thing and then pour 1/3 of the thawed mix into my MP 60 at lunch and dinner time. Sometimes I will give them some pellets an hour or so before the lights go down.

 

[tonydig11]

I would feed 2x a day but lights are off when I leave for work. My schedule runs 1pm-10pm. SO I feed around 5-6 pm either flakes,Pellets or thawed in RO frozen food.

 

[C. Eymann]

I thaw/soak foods in Selcon the night before in the fridge in a solo cup, mix of mysis, pellet, cyclops etc etc. Fed 3x a day, before going to work, then again when I got home from work and again right before bed.

 

[AlexG]

I feed the fish 2x-3x/day. Automatic feeders dump PE Mysis pellets twice a day and I feed frozen/nori every other day and occasionally mix in live white worms. I use tongs to feed my big fish so I can get some control on who is eating. The rest of the frozen foods are thawed and dumped into the current. No feeding mode activated in my tanks for pumps. The Nori is either put on a clip for the reef tank or torn into smaller pieces and dumped into the big tank once it is soaked in water. White worms I just put into some RO water when I get them out of their colony and dump them in. Mantis shrimp and large brittle stars are fed with feeding sticks.

Normal Feeding Portions:

• Reef Tank:
  • ~2-3 cubes of LRS/RODs/Mysis thawed
  • 1/4-1/3 sheet of Nori
• Big fish tank:
  • 3 Thawed unpeeled - uncooked - devained cocktail shimp - Sometimes mix up with clams or Squid
  • ~4-5 cubes of LRS/RODs/Mysis thawed
  • 1/2-3/4 sheet of Nori

 

[Sailingeric]

Frozen food thawed in tank water in a cup 2x a day. In the morning I put in a few pinches of Seaweed Extreme pellets and a couple times a week I throw in a cracked open frozen mussel for crabs and fish to eat.

 

[Midrats]

I throw a pinch of NLS pellets in there whenever I'm in front of the tank, which is often.

 

[gtrider]

I feed 1x a day. homemade food mix cut into small cubes. I put one in a small cup, add tank water, break it up w/ a chopstick, turn on the feed cycle on my apex, and pour in front of the return.

 

[APX90]

i make a batch for 3-4 days, thaw and drain cubes of mysis, add 4-5 different types of pellets, freeze dried calanus, spirulina 20 soak in selcon, and throw the container in my fridge, food is fairly dry and i have no issue with mysis falling apart

 

[lpsouth1978]

I usually thaw enough food for 2 days of feeding. This is soaked in Selcon and Brightwell Omega Amino. I feed 2x a day with this mix (consisting of LRS frozen foods and mysis shrimp). I also feed nori daily, though I have 5 tanks and a fox face.