How many times a day do you feed your fish?

saltyhog · Mar 30, 2018

It would be even more helpful if everyone would list their tank size and number of fish!

3 feedings from the time I get home from work till bedtime (wrasse dominant tank)

2 cubes of Hikari mysis for one feeding, two chunks of LRS for one feeding and one cube of blood worms and one of various other frozen foods for the third feeding. Also feed nori a couple of times a week but will step that up when my Gold Rim tang gets out of QT in a few days. All feedings include a portion being hand fed to my CBB and Quoy parrot fish.

72x24x21 (DSA 155) 11 fish at present

Syed123 · Mar 30, 2018

I feed 2-3 times a day. I feed things randomly. Sea Veggies, pellets, flakes, vegge flakes, frozen food such as mysis, brine shrimp, clams, cyclops frozen cubes, mussels, krill and LRS. Found 2-3 times daily feeding better than 1 large feeding.

Have 7 fish in a standard 120 gallon tank.

JoeIII · Apr 4, 2018

I voted 2x because mon-fri my wife feeds 1x typically (she is afraid of overfeeding and upsetting me with an algae bloom) but i feed typically 3x on the weekend. We use NoPoX and can afford to "overfeed"

Daltrey · Apr 4, 2018

Once a day. A cube of frozen, a pinch of pellets and quarter sheet of seaweed. Mixed with selcon vitamins and garlic xtreme.

Two clownfish, powder blue tang, yellow tang, lemon chromi, flame angel and watchman goby.

HB AL · Apr 4, 2018

drblakjak55 said:
Wow, HB AL, 8 cubes of what a day??

Hikari spiraluna brine, mysis, ocean plankton, mega marine, and blood worms.

mahindra.dev · Apr 4, 2018

1xbrine or 1xmysis and 1xflake weekday
3xbrine on weekends

elisa h · Apr 4, 2018

I feed two to three times a day. They get a chunk of lrs and half a cube of either hikari mega marine angel or mega marine algae all soaked in selcon with each feeding. I also feed live blackworms almost everyday. I’ve never tried to feed flake or pellet but I’m thinking about trying the new life spectrum pelletes or hikari seaweed extreme so that it’s easier to feed more times per day. I don’t think that fish should be fed less than once a day because while they won’t starve (just like a human wouldn’t starve in one day) there’s no way to tell how uncomfortable it is for them or how hungry they get.

I have 5 fish (2 clowns, kole tang, Midas blenny, and flame angel) in a 90 gal.

Bob Weigant · Apr 4, 2018

Mostly once a day and on the weekends I'll treat them with a little breakfast. Every once in a great while I'll miss a feeding. I've never any side effects from doing that

Crabs McJones · Apr 4, 2018

1 cube frozen mysis and a nori strip. Everyone seems fat and healthy

jd371 · Apr 5, 2018

I have a 75g with 9 fish, the biggest fish being the Melanurus and Copperband. I feed twice a day. In the morning I feed 2 cubes of brine shrimp, one regular and one spirulina. For the second feeding I thaw some LRS and Mysis with a couple of drops of Selcon in the fridge while I'm at work. The second feeding starts with both live white and black worms followed by the food that was thawing earlier.

d2mini · Apr 5, 2018

I chose 2x in the poll, but to clarify, that's usually only an hour or two apart. I only feed in the evenings, during the week at least.
Weekends might see an extra or earlier feeding.

Lasse · Apr 5, 2018

Once a day - nearly only frozen adult artemia. Lot of pickers (fish) not so many small pods in the DT but lot of them in the fuge. I suppose its a huge spill over of pods to the DT. Have difficult fishes according to feeding like scooter blenny and pipefish.

Sincerely Lasse