How much/ what should I be feeding

[Jl330]

Adding new fish so everything is changing.

Stock is as follows
2 clowns
2 pajama cardinals
3 chromis
Royal gramma
Hippo tang
Copperband butterfly
Mandarin goby
Anthia

 

[ReeferReefer]

I would start with one cube a day and a decent sized strip of Nori and see how everyone reacts. Best to underfeed to start and slowly increase feeding over time.

 

[Brandon787878]

I would start with one cube a day and a decent sized strip of Nori and see how everyone reacts. Best to underfeed to start and slowly increase feeding over time.

What is nori

 

[Hemmdog]

What is nori

Dried seaweed, sushi grade is nori.

 

[Brandon787878]

Dried seaweed, sushi grade is nori.

Do you use that for the fish to eat?

 

[lapin]

You have different fish that have different needs.
Live food is ideal.
Your chromis and anthia are active fish and feeding 3x a day is recommended.
Mandarin goby needs a constant supply of pods or it will starve. A lot of pods. It will not compete with other fish for food. Not an easy fish to keep.
Copperband butterfly eats live worms, live clams and can be trained to eat other foods. Another not easy fish to keep
clowns, pajama cardinals royal gramma will eat frozen and are not picky
Hippo tang will eat frozen and live foods plus it needs nori or some macro algae. It requires a very large tank so it can swim and be disease and stress free.

 

[Hemmdog]

Do you use that for the fish to eat?

Tangs, such as your blue hippo, need it included in their diet.

 

[Jl330]

How long do you leave nori in the tank? I have some here

 

[ReeferReefer]

Put it on a clip or rubber band it to a rock. I let the tang graze on it for as long as possible. All day even. I'll pull the nori before bed. Let's him feed through the day, much more natural imo.

 

[Jl330]

Put it on a clip or rubber band it to a rock. I let the tang graze on it for as long as possible. All day even. I'll pull the nori before bed. Let's him feed through the day, much more natural imo.

Thanks someone told me not to leave it more than an hour or it would leach phosphate into the tank.

 

[biecacka]

My tangs always pluck it free then it floats around my tank into it gets stuck to a pump, overflow box or eaten


Corey