How much do you feed your fish?

[Jesterrace]

I only have 5 fish. I feed a small piece of seaweed once a day, and a 1/8-1/4 inch cube of LRS Reef Frenzy Twice a day. I am not a fan of pellet food other than for a backup. Too dirty of a food source for my tastes. I agree that fish always act hungry. I just make sure they are getting at least some food bits. My Leopard Wrasse and PJ Cardinal are the masters of getting the little left over food bits from the main feeding.

 

[biecacka]

14-18 cubes a day??? That’s a ton of food. But it doesn’t matter if it gets eaten and exported.

Corey

 

[JumboShrimp]

Must cost a small fortune, no? Seems like $5 worth x 365 days = $1,825 a year to feed aquarium fish.

 

[Jesterrace]

Must cost a small fortune, no? Seems like $5 worth x 365 days = $1,825 a year to feed aquarium fish.

That is ridiculous for fish. Even a cat lady doesn't spend that much on food per year.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Lol. My exact thought... unless they are homemade cubes being made in bulk, which would be possible, but a lot of work.

 

[Burrito]

I’ve always overfed my fish. Currently they get between 14-18 cubes of frozen food a day, some PE mysis, nori, algae wafers, and pellets for my quoyi but that means feeding all fish pellets so the quoyi can catch a few.

Have to dose nitrates (thank you Kessil, cheato and Ulva) Though I dread checking phosphates (0.1-0.15:mad. New reefer 750 running since November, Not overrun by algae yet lol

#fat&happy

Whoa, How big is your tank

 

[EmdeReef]

Whoa, How big is your tank

Reefer 750 (~160g)

 

[carbene]

I feed them until their bellies are plump since I buy frozen in bulk from jehmco

 

[Dan I]

Once a day for me. I clip on a piece of nori and feed around a half dollar sized of LRS frozen food. Everyone eats it happily and I go in about my day.

 

[Carterfish]

Nori sheet every other day in morning, auto feeder flakes at 12, frozen food in morning and at night after work.

 

[vlangel]

I have a 56 gallon column tank with 12 fish, blennies, gobies, dartfish and cardinal fish. I feed flake or pellets in the morning. Then emerald entree (1/2 cube) early afternoon and mysis or fish frenzy at night (1/2 cube). Its a high nutrient reef with macro algae and softies/LPS.

 

[McPuff]

Here's my assemblage in a 300DD (72 x 36 x 27"h) SPS dominant reef:

foxface lo 8"
lieutenant tang 8"
naso tang 7"
pyroferus tang 5"
scopas tang
blueface angel (4.5" mostly juvenile)
pink spot watchman blenny (> 13 years old!)
tailspot blenny
darwin misbar clown x 2
pajama cardinal x 2 (huge)
Talbott's damsel
blue/green chromis (huge)
Caribbean spotted hawkfish
arc eye hawkfish
royal gramma
melanurus wrasse (lg male)
ruby head wrasse (huge male)
Humu trigger (~2.5" in connected 40g lagoon)

I think that's all... planning to add a few azure damsels and that may be all the fish I will add. Didn't realize I had 20 fish. Ha! :0)

I feed a sheet of nori each morning before leaving for work (DIY nori feeder). Have an auto feeder drop NLS pellets twice daily (11:00, 16:00). Feed frozen (~ silver dollar size) once daily at 19:30-ish. Here, I switch between homemade mix, mysis, bloodworms, and LRS fish frenzy. The trigger is always fed separately... pellets when I get home from work, frozen at night.

The fish are all fat and happy. Once I started feeding nori every day the tangs really plumped up (the Lt is about 1.5" wide!). Have tried feeding more nori but they don't seem to eat 2 sheets in a day. I might test for nitrates/phosphates semi-annually but I don't have any problems with algae. I do run a chaeto reator (DIY) and GFO and that seems to do the trick. I really don't do water changes unless I'm siphoning out detritus from the sump or vacuuming small portions of the sand bed (maybe 10% a month).

 

[lapin]

17 small to med fish / 600 gallon tank. They get fed 4 frozen cubes a day (mysis, calanus, spirulina brine, rotifers) I cut the cubes in half, and a small bit of Rods food, plus live white worms, live black worms and live hatched baby brine, and a bit of crumpled up nori . I feed 1/2 in the am and 1/2 in the pm. I have to delay the worm feedings by about 30 min or thats all they want to eat. When they have live shell fish at the store they get a clam or 2 for a few days. When I have live rotifers they get those instead of frozen. Plus my tank and fuge has a good pod population, so when one does need a snack, those are avail 24/7

 

[Clarinuto]

Hmm. This is interesting to me. I have a cb angel, melanarus wrasse, yellow clown goby, orange striped prawn goby, Midas blenny, 2 blue green reef chromis, 2 ocellaris clowns that I feed with 1 cube of frozen food each day and a sheet of nori every few days. Seems like I am underfeeding based on others’ responses here, but they are all plenty plump. Maybe since they are all small/medium sized, they do not require anymore?

I guess I should mention I do add pods monthly, phyto bi-weekly, and occasionally live baby brine, but that is it!

 

[McPuff]

Hmm. This is interesting to me. I have a cb angel, melanarus wrasse, yellow clown goby, orange striped prawn goby, Midas blenny, 2 blue green reef chromis, 2 ocellaris clowns that I feed with 1 cube of frozen food each day and a sheet of nori every few days. Seems like I am underfeeding based on others’ responses here, but they are all plenty plump. Maybe since they are all small/medium sized, they do not require anymore?

I guess I should mention I do add pods monthly, phyto bi-weekly, and occasionally live baby brine, but that is it!

If they all look nice and fat I'm sure they're fine. Those are all small fish and I'm sure they get nutrition from your rocks (pods, algae, etc.) in addition to what you feed.

 

[Clarinuto]

If they all look nice and fat I'm sure they're fine. Those are all small fish and I'm sure they get nutrition from your rocks (pods, algae, etc.) in addition to what you feed.

Rock on. That’s what I was hoping.