Tank Feeding - Days Off?

[drblank1]

I give my tank 3 small feedings a day. High quality pellets at 11am and 3pm from an auto feeder. And then I do a hand feeding of frozen food at 7pm. I do this 7 days a week. I was wonder if anyone has feeding skip days. If I skip one day a week of feedings, my thought is this get the fish to search for all uneaten food in the tank and keep the tank cleaner. Thoughts/opinions?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Clean up crew will scavenge any leftovers but if you are concerned about leftover food being caught up- you may be over feeding. Feed what they will consume in 1-2 minutes.
It’s easier to add food than to remove it

 

[drblank1]

Does anyone skip days feeding?

 

[Azedenkae]

Does anyone skip days feeding?

I don't. I also have cuc to help clean up excess food. After all, I probably don't want to half to wait for my fish to search around for food decomposing from six days ago.

 

[ru4serious]

I use to skip days for years, lately though I been feeding the heck out of them because I'm try to keep my nitrates and phosphates from bottoming out

 

[Nemo&Friends]

I skipped occasionally when I was too busy and forgot....
It did not seem to affect the fish much, but I do not have corals.

 

[zdstrong]

I used to feed every other day. Due to bottomed out nitrates and phosphates I have since started feeding daily

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

I have skipped. No issues

 

[DC Reefer]

I feed 2x per day and probably miss 2+ feedings per week randomly just because life happens sometimes. When I skip feedings I also skip whatever I was scheduled to manually dose. I have not seen any negative impacts from this on fish or corals. I would not be comfortable skipping multiple days in a row of feeding my fish. They would probably be fine as they are generally pretty healthy fish. Solid BMI

 

[Poof No Eyebrows]

I skip feeding randomly all the time. I have experienced that fish will eat what ever and when ever you throw food at them. Doesn’t necessarily mean they need it or are starving.

 

[fish farmer]

Yes, I skip days once or twice a week.

 

[kerbfish]

I use to skip days for years, lately though I been feeding the heck out of them because I'm try to keep my nitrates and phosphates from bottoming out

What are you running to have that amazing problem of not being able to feed enough….do share !

 

[saltybees]

I skip a day if I feel I overfed the day before.

 

[ZoWhat]

I actually don't feed my tank.... I feed the fish and coral inside my tank

 

[saltybees]

boooooo

 

[Buckster]

I feed everyday with my own mixture of frozen food and then later I place some nori in the holder. Ironically I fed the fish earlier and then informed my wife that I couldn't remember if I put in the nori. I won't worry too much and will wait for tomorrow.

I generally don't skip feedings but if I did then I wouldn't worry!

 

[homer1475]

I feed one rotation on an auto feeder in the AM, then frozen and live phyto in the evening, I skip every friday, only because I work 16 hours. I leave for work before my lights are on and the fish are asleep, and I return from work when my lights are off, and the fish are sleeping.

I will put an extra time and rotation on my auto feeder those days though.