How much should I be feeding a day?

[FugeTown]

I have 2 medium sized Black Ocellaris clowns, a 3” Coral Beauty and a Tomini Tang Hes comparable size to the coral beauty. That is all my fish, I feed them
ocean nutrition formula 1 frozen cubes which I cut the cubes into quarter sections and feed one of the quarters in the morning and one quarter piece at night. I also feed a small strip of the dry seaweed for the tang 3 times a week. I wanted to make sure this is enough food or should I be feeding them more?

 

[madweazl]

Whatever it takes to keep them plump and is manageable by your system (i.e. nutrient mitigation/controls such as refugiums, GFO, etc.). Tangs generally have a really high metabolism and will get shrunken/pinched bellies quickly if not fed enough. The clowns and angels are generally much slower to show such issues.

 

[Hemmdog]

I’d be feeding at least 2 cubes of pe mysis, but that’s just me.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I have 2 medium sized Black Ocellaris clowns, a 3” Coral Beauty and a Tomini Tang Hes comparable size to the coral beauty. That is all my fish, I feed them
ocean nutrition formula 1 frozen cubes which I cut the cubes into quarter sections and feed one of the quarters in the morning and one quarter piece at night. I also feed a small strip of the dry seaweed for the tang 3 times a week. I wanted to make sure this is enough food or should I be feeding them more?

Unless there's new info out their, fish can go without food 3 days, with no problems. So very little , but plump sound good

 

[FugeTown]

Unless there's new info out their, fish can go without food 3 days, with no problems. So very little , but plump sound good

I know they don’t need much and I feel like I’m a light feeder but just wanna make sure my fish are happy with how much I feed them. The coral beauty has only been in my tank for a couple months and seems like a big eater the tang is relatively new also which both look so much healthier now compared from the day I bought them at petco. I basically just wanted to see if it seemed like I was under feeding or not.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I know they don’t need much and I feel like I’m a light feeder but just wanna make sure my fish are happy with how much I feed them. The coral beauty has only been in my tank for a couple months and seems like a big eater the tang is relatively new also which both look so much healthier now compared from the day I bought them at petco. I basically just wanted to see if it seemed like I was under feeding or not.

Also keep an eye on water perimeters if no issue from feeding , your good

 

[Hemmdog]

I know they don’t need much and I feel like I’m a light feeder but just wanna make sure my fish are happy with how much I feed them. The coral beauty has only been in my tank for a couple months and seems like a big eater the tang is relatively new also which both look so much healthier now compared from the day I bought them at petco. I basically just wanted to see if it seemed like I was under feeding or not.

What is your nitrate and phosphate. Reef dwelling fish have very high metabolisms, they eat a ton, I have never heard this “they don’t need food but every 3 days”, I know for a fact my wrasses would be dead, tangs would be close if I tried that. Why do you want to under feed your fish? If they eat whatever you put in the tank in less than 1 minute, you should be feeding more.

 

[FugeTown]

What is your nitrate and phosphate. Reef dwelling fish have very high metabolisms, they eat a ton, I have never heard this “they don’t need food but every 3 days”, I know for a fact my wrasses would be dead, tangs would be close if I tried that. Why do you want to under feed your fish? If they eat whatever you put in the tank in less than 1 minute, you should be feeding more.

My nitrate is 3ppm and phosphate is .03 I would say it takes them around a minute to eat all the food maybe a little less than a minute.

 

[Halal Hotdog]

There is going to be a large range of discrepancy with the answers, and none are wrong. I lean towards feeding very heavy, keeps aggression down, if disease enters my tank they are healthy enough to fight it off, and I like fat fish. Basically what it comes down to is you can feed as much as you system can handle. I am at a point where no matter how much I throw in there my nitrates are between 1-5ppm (eyes aren't as great seeing difference in pink as they use to be) but my phosphates can start rising quickly. I add Lanthanum chloride to keep my phosphates in check. Algae wise I have tangs and rabbit fish that do an amazing job. Filtration wise I have a medium refugium, an algae turf scrubber, and a protein skimmer.

 

[FugeTown]

I have the nutrient battle down , I’m just on the other end of a 3rd tank crash in 6 years , all of the crashes involved going on vacation comming home to a disaster with people who I trusted to watch my tank and one time the autotop off with kalkwasser which is a horrible idea caused the last crash. All the corals that survived are popping again , I almost shut my tank down and gave up but never really been a quitter lol but thought getting a couple fish would help get my mind off the crashes and it helped now when I come home from work all 4 of the fish swim up to me looking very happy it’s feeding time.

 

[lapin]

The frozen cubes come in 2 sizes /100g and 200g. If you are feeding 50g a day that seems like too little. Are the clowns laying eggs? I would feed 1 cube of the 100g size every day. In 2 weeks see if the N and P are the same as before the change. If so you are good

 

[FugeTown]

The frozen cubes come in 2 sizes /100g and 200g. If you are feeding 50g a day that seems like too little. Are the clowns laying eggs? I would feed 1 cube of the 100g size every day. In 2 weeks see if the N and P are the same as before the change. If so you are good

The cubes are 100g, I never noticed any eggs layed by the clowns which they’ve been in the tank for about 3 years. The clowns do sleep right next to each other every night.

 

[madweazl]

Unless there's new info out their, fish can go without food 3 days, with no problems. So very little , but plump sound good

A yellow tang will have a pinched belly in less than half a day (more like a six hours).

 

[Halal Hotdog]

A yellow tang will have a pinched belly in less than half a day (more like a six hours).

I absolutely agree with this statement. Not all fish take starvation the same. IME obligate carnivores can go days without food and look great. Grazing herbivores do terrible if there isn't food available throughout the day. I learned this through quarantining my fish, and the trick with tangs was to get them eating as fast as possible and as much as possible.

 

[FugeTown]

A yellow tang will have a pinched belly in less than half a day (more like a six hours).

My tang has a little bit of a bump where his belly is so I’m guessing he must be getting fed plenty. When I purchased him his belly did appear a little sunken in, I don’t want to talk bad about a company but petco must not of been feeding the poor guy enough, but he’s very happy now.

 

[KMNewer]

*stupid phone triple post*

 

[KMNewer]

*double post*

 

[KMNewer]

I feed multiple times a day to keep my (solar McCoskers and tri-color) wrasse plump and active

I don't like being stingy with food and hate that feed sparingly every 3 days bs.

 

[Chris Villalobos]

From what I have seen with my tank I can feed my fish so much that they just refuse to eat more and let it go into the overflow. But I also found that overfeeding can spark Dinos and Cyano even when NO3 and PO4 seem in good shape. (1ppm NO3 and 0.02PPM PO4). So as long as you don't have Cyano or Dinos you probably aren't overfeeding your tank.