How often do you feed your fish?

[JSully_94]

Hi all,

I’m wondering how often you feed your fish. I’m trying to strike that perfect balance between added nutrients and keeping my phosphates at 0.02 ppm. I currently feed every other day, usually on the heavier side.

Specifically, I sprinkle about 10 - 15 Omega One mini marine pellets to feed two clownfish. I also add an approximate 3” length by 1” width of nori to feed my lawnmower blenny. I usually remove what’s left of the sheet after 5 or so hours.

So far my fish seem fine with this arrangement, but it’s always a constant struggle to keep algae at bay.

What are your feeding strategies?

 

[Brandon3152134]

I target feed my damsel and rinse all frozen foods for corals. I also only feed my eel live fish. I think that digested food waste is alot better than undigested food floating around. Havent had any major algea blooms in this tank but my bioload is low.

 

[Robinreefs94]

Since i've had low nutrients for a long while and being home a lot due to the pandemic it's between 2 - 4 times a day. Otherwise it's once everyday except if I travel away during weekends.

 

[Reef.]

Hi all,

I’m wondering how often you feed your fish. I’m trying to strike that perfect balance between added nutrients and keeping my phosphates at 0.02 ppm. I currently feed every other day, usually on the heavier side.

Specifically, I sprinkle about 10 - 15 Omega One mini marine pellets to feed two clownfish. I also add an approximate 3” length by 1” width of nori to feed my lawnmower blenny. I usually remove what’s left of the sheet after 5 or so hours.

So far my fish seem fine with this arrangement, but it’s always a constant struggle to keep algae at bay.

What are your feeding strategies?

Look for where the nutrients are coming from as feeding so little, it’s not from feeding.

do you use any media to remove PO4, water changes?

 

[reef4now]

I have five fish that I feed once a day and an anemone which gets fed twice a week with shrimp.They seem to be happy with this routine.

 

[Peng1606]

I feed 4 times a day using neptune autofeeder (drum refilled weekly) and throw 6 cubes frozen daily. Also feed nori 1-2 times/week. I have almost 60 fish including 13 tangs and a very greedy rabbitfish.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

I feed once a day

 

[Crustaceon]

Feed your tank daily without fear and have a nutrient control method that’s effective enough to control excessive nitrates & phosphates, whether its using macro algae, growing bacteria and skimming them out or by doing frequent water changes. You can’t control established nuisance algae through reduced feedings. It just doesn’t work.

 

[Pistondog]

1 bloodworm cube plus a marine cuisine cube plus 6 inch square of nori per day, spread over 2 feedings. Some pellets in the morning.
For 25 inches of fish between 3 tanks.

 

[jmichaelh7]

Multiple times 3-4 times of Mysis, brine, seaweed, cubes. My fish are pets

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Once a day and hang some algae every couple of days for the tangs.

 

[Mical]

My feeding schedule is twice a day via auto feeders for fish (Hikari S & Algae), nems get shrimp/or littleneck clams on weekends and foxface and Rabbitfish get Nori strips on weekends.

 

[Felipe]

Reefroids twice a week. Can't get easier. The thing about feeding is that you get annoyed of it and ended up stopping. gotta keep it simple. here it is https://amzn.to/3aBY3oV

 

[JumboShrimp]

I feed up to 8x per day in my FOWRL:

Nori (twice at least), pellets throughout the day. 3 frozen cubes, plus Krill and Mysis. 1 frozen Mussel on a half shell, and cut up shrimp. I have a UV sterilizer and a skimmer, 24” overflow. Water is always very clear.

 

[CaseyWagner]

Once a day.
I bought a fish chowder seafood tray at the supermarket (various fish, crab, lobster, scallop) for $5 CAD and blended it up and added some nutrafin garlic bites, then froze it. I shave a bit off to feed them each day.

 

[Viking_Reefing]

About six times per day. Auto feeder takes care of four of the feedings and I generally also feed a half sheet of nori in the mornings and 3-5 cubes of frozen in the evening.

I have a belief that not feeding enough times/volumes is a large part of why some fish like copperbands and moorish idols are considered hard to keep.

 

[FrancineJ]

I feed 4 times a day using neptune autofeeder (drum refilled weekly) and throw 6 cubes frozen daily. Also feed nori 1-2 times/week. I have almost 60 fish including 13 tangs and a very greedy rabbitfish.

What size of tank do you have for 60 fish? Or is it multiple tanks? Lol

 

[JustJoan]

I have a very greedy tang. He zips around and eats most of the food. He also steals from corals. I feed fish twice a day, every other day. Every third day I feed the corals-reef chili. On the days I feed the fish once, i hang seaweed.

 

[MattB69]

I feed twice a day with a treat of frozen a few times a week. A piece of nori in the morning followed by pellet and flake in the evening.

 

[austibella]

I feed several times a day no animal should go hungry. In the wild they eat all the time. I cut up fresh seafood, use flakes,, pellets add nori and add zoo plankton, reef roids , reef chili and microvert. I switch foods because in the wild they don't eat the same food everyday