How I feed my fish. This may get lengthy, and it's not an every night thing. Probably once a week. Most of the time, it's just LRS. Right now the herbivore frenzy is open, bit I also have fish frenzy in the freezer.
First I get a cup of tank water. These are just specimen cups from Amazon. I feed a pretty good chunk of LRS daily. Probably 1"×2". Size varies with what snaps off, but I try and stay around that size.
Next I add some of the Elos food. This stuff came free with the Reefer 250 raffle my girlfriend won this past spring. Just now getting around to using it. This one is the cyclops pods. There's millions in the can. Makes the tank look like a snow globe and the corals really have a good feeding response. The fish go after them as well. I feed 1/4tsp.
Even tho I'm using the Herbivore frenzy and feed nori, I like to add some algae in the cup. These are the Reef Interests Nannoflakes DHA+. My dog got ahold of the can and chewed it pretty good, but didn't get in. I just put them in a rubber made bowl as the lid was chewed up and difficult to open and close. I really like these flakes as they smell really fresh and the fish seem to have a good responce to them. I add a pinch or so.
The last food I add currently is the Reef Nutrition R.O.E. The fish love eating these when I do them in the tank as the drops stay together for a second before the flow breaks the individual eggs apart. My clowns will practically let me drop this stuff in their mouths. It got mixed in the cup with everything else tonight tho. LPS corals have a good feeding response to this as well.
So there it is. An amalgamation of foods to feed everything in my tank. Sometimes I add reef roids, but most of the time that stuff just ends up as gunk down in the sump. It just seems too dehydrated to the point of being almost hydrophobic.
I leave all flow on to spread the food around the tank. I do put the return pump in feed mode for 10 minutes. The corals can catch more food with the flow on, and the copperband gets all spooked when there is no flow and all the other fish clean house before he gets any. As you can see, it gets quite cloudy, and this was after they had eaten most of the LRS.
The Menagerie does get 1ml of the same mixture. Whatever it ends up being that day. With only 2 small fish, they do not need much over there. For that tank I do turn off all flow, the return and both power heads. Blaze and Ember both are not shy about feeding time and coexist very well together. You could probably call them tank buddies.
