What time(s) do you feed your fish?

[melev]

I use an eheim synced up to a virtual outlet on my apex.

How did you do that? The Eheim is battery powered with its own internal timers. Did you gut and wire this up differently?

 

[melev]

Those of you with tangs or herbivorous fish why do you not feed a little nori every day?

I don't like getting my hands wet.

I need to do it more, honestly. But my fish get gut-loaded every night.

 

[melev]

90 gallon tank
6 am pinch of black worms
5pm pinch of black worms
7pm pinch of black worms
9pm 2 grams of lrs (switch up the kind)and black worms.

I'm jealous you can get blackworms. I found some listed on Ebay I thought about ordering. I have frozen redworms I thaw out each night and include in the food for my Copperband butterfly.

 

[justingraham]

I'm jealous you can get blackworms. I found some listed on Ebay I thought about ordering. I have frozen redworms I thaw out each night and include in the food for my Copperband butterfly.

Yea what is weird is that I just found this out from another member.
I am lucky indeed
So the first time I sent him a pound and then He found them online and got them shipped from California but for the price he was paying I could get three lbs. he has since talked his local fish store into getting them in and now enjoys my prices.

@locito277 what was the website called?

 

[atoll]

I feed my fish at least 3 often 4 times a day so a little and often. I rarely fed dry foods maybe once or twice a week. I make my own or feed frozen foods. When fish have set dinnertimes and eat dry foods in the wild I might consider them. Until then I will carry on feeding my fish as I have done for the last 25 years or so. I let nature be my guide as much as is reasonably possible.

 

[Brad Syphus]

I feed at least 3 times a day, LRS reef frenzy and Hikari mysis. Spectrum pellets.

 

[locito277]

I was wondering about what y'all do. If you feed your fish multiple times a day, or every other day.... whatever is your routine, I'd like to hear it. Here's mine:

400g:
12:30 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (1 rotation)
6:30 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (2 rotations)
10:20 p.m. - Rod's food

60g Anemone cube:
7:00 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (1 rotation)
10:20 p.m. - Rod's food

60g Frag system:
4:00 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (1 rotation)
10:20 p.m. - Rod's food

Special treats on occasion, 2x per week:
Nori clipped to the glass of the 400g

Special treat on rare occasion (few times a year)
1 pinch of banana mashed up into the water column for the tangs and anthias to go crazy over

If I'm home they eat about 6 times a day. They take down about 3-4 Nori sheets down a day. I feed every frozen food that I can, make my own frozen mix, feed live blackworms, feed refrigerated foods as well. Some days they may only eat twice a day. Feeding is key to maintains peace in the aquarium.

 

[locito277]

Yea what is weird is that I just found this out from another member.
I am lucky indeed
So the first time I sent him a pound and then He found them online and got them shipped from California but for the price he was paying I could get three lbs. he has since talked his local fish store into getting them in and now enjoys my prices.

@locito277 what was the website called?

California black worms. Their paypal info is [email protected]. 46.99 a lb. my LFS has made them available by servings but I rather get the pound and go overboard

 

[Susan Bates]

I am very interested in this as i can not get my nitrates down and don't know if i am over feeding ....under feeding.... or what?? i feed once a day and give nori every day.....1/2 cube of red plankton , 1 cube of shrimp a good pinch of pellets and of flakes, I have large yellow tang, a nasco tang, sailfin tang, 2 x clowns, 2 flame hawks , copper band butterfly, angle, and a mandarin dragnet , what do you think???

 

[64Ivy]

I feed twice a day (usually). 8:00 am and 8o pm. Mixture of P.E. Mysis, plankton, Rods Food (evenings), LRS Herbavore (mornings), fish eggs (sometimes), live black worms (sometimes), Cyclopeze (sometimes), Hakiri mysis, and Ocean Nutrition's Angel Formula. This is a 500g sps dominated reef with a moderate bioload, btw.

 

[GnarleyMarley]

How did you do that? The Eheim is battery powered with its own internal timers. Did you gut and wire this up differently?

I set up a Virtual Outlet on the apex, then set it so when the VO is on it cuts off the skimmer & powerheads, essentially creating an automatic feed mode. Then just program the eheim to come on after the VO cuts on
If you search the neptune apex forum there's step by step guides on how to set it up. Definitely worth a look.

 

[Hosscooper]

I was wondering about what y'all do. If you feed your fish multiple times a day, or every other day.... whatever is your routine, I'd like to hear it. Here's mine:

400g:
12:30 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (1 rotation)
6:30 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (2 rotations)
10:20 p.m. - Rod's food

60g Anemone cube:
7:00 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (1 rotation)
10:20 p.m. - Rod's food

60g Frag system:
4:00 p.m. - Eheim autofeeder (1 rotation)
10:20 p.m. - Rod's food

Special treats on occasion, 2x per week:
Nori clipped to the glass of the 400g

Special treat on rare occasion (few times a year)
1 pinch of banana mashed up into the water column for the tangs and anthias to go crazy over

I was wondering how people here have protein skimmers or sumps etc. Mine is a 55gl with 2 clowns and 1 dotty back. And a few small corals. Asst snails hermits and a sand sifting star. I feed every other day 1/2 cube frozen mysis. Have had issues with high phosates and algae till lately. Not skimmer just water changes every two weeks.

 

[melev]

If I'm home they eat about 6 times a day. They take down about 3-4 Nori sheets down a day. I feed every frozen food that I can, make my own frozen mix, feed live blackworms, feed refrigerated foods as well. Some days they may only eat twice a day. Feeding is key to maintains peace in the aquarium.

3-4 sheets of Nori per day? What size tank? How's your PO4 level?

 

[locito277]

720! I got my fans from your store over on Facebook. My tank is in a state of flux. Lost a major pump so most SPS didn't make it. Softies, anemones, fish all great though. Nitrates were high. I was getting my denitrator tuned in at the time of failure.

 

[melev]

I am very interested in this as i can not get my nitrates down and don't know if i am over feeding ....under feeding.... or what?? i feed once a day and give nori every day.....1/2 cube of red plankton , 1 cube of shrimp a good pinch of pellets and of flakes, I have large yellow tang, a nasco tang, sailfin tang, 2 x clowns, 2 flame hawks , copper band butterfly, angle, and a mandarin dragnet , what do you think???

Susan, it comes down to total water volume, filtration methods and accessories. I use biopellets to keep my nitrates under control, and it works really well for me.

 

[melev]

I set up a Virtual Outlet on the apex, then set it so when the VO is on it cuts off the skimmer & powerheads, essentially creating an automatic feed mode. Then just program the eheim to come on after the VO cuts on
If you search the neptune apex forum there's step by step guides on how to set it up. Definitely worth a look.

Oh, I see. So you are making it dump into the tank at the best window of opportunity. I leave my pumps on for the Eheim feedings, but turn off the return pump when I serve up the thawed frozen foods.

 

[melev]

720! I got my fans from your store over on Facebook. My tank is in a state of flux. Lost a major pump so most SPS didn't make it. Softies, anemones, fish all great though. Nitrates were high. I was getting my denitrator tuned in at the time of failure.

Awww! Sorry to hear that. That sucks!

 

[atoll]

My ATS brought my NO3 down from 25ppm to 2 in 5 weeks.

 

[locito277]

Awww! Sorry to hear that. That sucks!

We'll be back online tomorrow

 

[locito277]

We'll be back online tomorrow

I also have to figure out how to get my ATS working correctly