POLL: How often do you feed your fish and more?

[Sharvey103]

Feeding 6 tangs, 8 angels, mandarin, 2 rubys, snowflake eel, 3 gobies in a 300 DD. It is a mixture of frozen food including LRS reef frenzy, Mysis, brine, rotifers, cyclops, vitamin and garlic. They also get a sheet of green or purple seaweed every day. Nitrates ~ 2 ppm, phosphate 0.03 ppm.

 

[costacarles]

1x daily with mixed flakes and some days we add some frozen brine shripm and mysis and on weekend usually add masstick to the mix

Current fish stock in 132gal:
- Copperband butterfly
- Magnificent foxface
- Regal blue tang
- 2 Ocellaris
- Yellow watchman goby
- Mandarin goby
- Jade wrasse
- Yellow tang
- Labroides dimidiatus
- Plus 2x wundermani and 2x cleaner shrimp

 

[JoeIII]

Our feeding is pretty haphazard.
When I am not home, the wife feeds 1-2x/day - she is afraid of overfeeding

When I am home, I typically feed 3-4 times per day.

food is whatever I decide to feed from:

New life, coral frenzy, or seaweed extreme pellets
Various off-the shelf frozen blends
Frozen Mysus
"seafood smoothie" as I call it - mixed seafood, nori, garlic blended in fresh saltwater and frozen
sushi wrappers cut into 1/4
other foods cycle in and out depending on what I win in raffles (thanks RAP) or is available locally

Three tangs
Two wrasses
two clownfish
royal gramma
dottyback
BTA, two big serpent stars, big brittle star, skunk shrimp take care of anything that gets past the fish

 

[stevo01]

This thread has got me to look at more foods to feed my marine life with. I thought I was doing pretty well but im always open to try new things if my fish are lol.

Been trying these new foods out along with what ive previously posted.

- Freeze dried krill, frozen Marine Cuisine, and some marine pellets that have some vegetation in them.

What ive done is create some picky eating fish. They dont care much for the krill or cuisine but eat a little of it when its offered. They wont touch the dry pellets. Mysis, Brine, and Rods get tore up. Im going to keep working with new foods as I feel this helps promote fish with long lives.

 

[JoeIII]

Im going to keep working with new foods as I feel this helps promote fish with long lives.

I agree, that is why we vary our food as much as possible.

We are lucky in that our fish are pigs and will eat anything we feed.

I should add, periodically we also throw in some macro algae from other tanks. Our tangs will destroy a baseball-sized clump of dragons breath in under an hour.

We also move any frags that have algae growing on them to the display periodically, they are usually shiny-clean within hours.

 

[O'l Salty]

Two dry and one frozen everyday.
2 clowns, 1 filefish and 1 long nosed hawk. I feed very lightly with the dry and a little heavier with the frozen. Figure the crabs etc...like the frozen more.

 

[mtraylor]

I feed my fish 2/day. They get Nori for breakfast and mixed brine, Mysis etc for dinner.

 

[GoVols]

Feed my low bio load 2 (small feedings) during the evening with Seachem Chorella flake. If frozen I feed lrs Reef Frenzy once that day.
Feed corals every evening with Red Sea "Reef Energy" with protein skimmer off for at least one hour.
Fish:
One / five year old female picasso clownfish
Three / blue green chromis
One / 3" purple tang

Low fish bio load for a 110 gallon but really healthy and very peaceful to watch.

 

[kennedpa]

40 long with 30 gallon sump. Skimmer 24 hours on for now. High flow (950 gph return with two Tunze maxed out). No filter sock. 30 lbs rock with 2" sand bed I sump containing ~1 lb of chaeto.

About 200 coral types, clown, foxface, yellow tang, scooter blenny pair, melanarus wrasse, blue yellow tail damsel, two blue chromis, 3 cardinals, hundreds of stomatella snails.

Minimum daily one mysis, one brine, one frozen Coral particle food (forget brand); a hour or two before lights out generous portion of LRS breeding frenzy.

At least three times a week reef energy A+B 15 ml total volume, reef roids, additional mysis/brine and algae pending fish behavior and levels.

Dose 10-15 ml nopox daily.

Parameters run

NO3 10-16
PO4 0.16-0.04 lately 0.08-0.04

KH 10.5
Ca 440
Mag 1440

Salinity 1.025-1.026
Temp 78-80
pH 8.0's - 8.29-8.32

 

[DRoth335]

Feed both tanks NLS pellets 2x/day and DIY frozen reef blend 1x/day. Also feed both tanks Noritake daily so I guess I could have selected "4 or more times per day" vs. 3.

 

[Reef4Rose]

I feed lots and inconsistent. During the week twice a day maybe 3 times. Weekend maybe 4 times a day. Flake pellets frozen nori reef frenzy. Lots of Tangs. Big tank need lots of food. I was noticing how fat some are though! Currently in hyposalinity battling ich so want them as healthy and happy as possible.

 

[RussiReef]

I feed one time a day with pellet and mysis shrimp . Nori tree times a week .

 

[Injoynit]

Fish:
6 Clowns

Coral:
Hammer

Feedings:
Once per day twice on weekends and such.

Food:
Pellet and Frozen soaked in Britewell Garlic Power

Frozen that is Rotated between feedings:
Mysis
Copepod/Zooplankton
Krill/Spinach/lettuce/spirulina
Brine Shrimp

 

[madweazl]

1. How often do you feed?
a. Two to three times daily

2. What types of food do you feed?
a. LRS Reef and Herbivore Frenzy twice a day along with Julian Sprung's Sea Veggies (typically every other day between the LRS feedings)

3. How many fish do you have?
a. Eight

 

[AnakinReefWalker]

I feed 2-3 times daily, I like to feed smaller portions rather than one large feeding.
I mix frozen food into a condiment bottle and keep it refrigerated, this way every feeding is quick and efficient.
I mix in:
Hikari Mega-Marine Angel (1 cube)
Hikari Mysis (1 cube)
LRS Reef Frenzy (Small/Medium Chunk)
Hikari Bloodworms (Quarter cube)
Capelin Fish Roe (1 TSP)
Hikari Cyclopods (1 cube, for the small fish and corals)

I have 14 fish, 11 of which are small fish (chromis, damsels, firefish, etc) and 3 medium sized fish.

 

[Kappaquariums]

I feed once daily with 3-4 pellets of Hikari Marine S to my single Ocellaris in my 15 gallon tank.

 

[Benga]

I feed 2-3 times daily, I like to feed smaller portions rather than one large feeding.
I mix frozen food into a condiment bottle and keep it refrigerated, this way every feeding is quick and efficient.
I mix in:
Hikari Mega-Marine Angel (1 cube)
Hikari Mysis (1 cube)
LRS Reef Frenzy (Small/Medium Chunk)
Hikari Bloodworms (Quarter cube)
Capelin Fish Roe (1 TSP)
Hikari Cyclopods (1 cube, for the small fish and corals)

I have 14 fish, 11 of which are small fish (chromis, damsels, firefish, etc) and 3 medium sized fish.

So do you make a batch enough for a week? I want to do batches too but i'm not sure if mysis and stuff go bad

 

[AnakinReefWalker]

So do you make a batch enough for a week? I want to do batches too but I'm not sure if mysis and stuff go bad

I did some reading on this, and other people who do the same thing run it up to a week, however, I do not. I play it safe and mix in enough for 3-4 days, this way, I know it won't go bad.

 

[SantaMonica]

I like to feed smaller portions rather than one large feeding.

This is great for lots of reef fish, since it's how they normally eat. For herbivores you can portion and freeze algae to do this.

 

[OCD420]

Ouch, I was thinking about cutting it back a little until I came across this topic.

I feed every other day 1hr before the white lights go out.

I feed half a cube of mini mysis, and use a whole cube of PE mysis to attempt to feed my corals... I’d say that they steal about 35% of that as well.

I have a tailspot goby, 2 scooters, a golden head goby, and hermits/snails.