Bpb Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 I'm sure this may have been covered before. The opinions seem to be pretty vast. Some people seem to feed multiple times a day, citing corals and fish have a constant abundant food availability in the wild. Others feed two or three times a week saying any more than that leads to phosphate issues. How often do you all feed your tanks? If you feel so inclined share what sorts of inhabitants you're actually feeding, and what you're feeding. Just lookin for opinions on how I can improve my own habits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestep Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Spectrum pellets, 2 - 3 times per week. It does depend on your fish though. If you have anthias and some other high metabolism fish, they may need fed 3 or more times per day. If you have low metabolism fish like a moray eel, they need once a week, maybe less for a large one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Spectrum Pellets 2-3 times per week. I full water column feed with phyto/tigger pods 1x per week the day before water change (weekly). I don't have high demand fish though (clownfish, firefish). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Spectrum 2x a week soaked in garlic extract and/or selcon, oyster feast every other week, trigger pods at random Inhabitants : 2x fire fish 2x clowns Lawnmower Bicolor blenny Various anemones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted March 7, 2013 Author Share Posted March 7, 2013 I can already see I'm feeding too much possibly. I've been feeding spectrum pellets daily, except Tuesdays and Thursdays I feed 1/3 of a cube of frozen marine mix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Depends on how much you are feeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted March 7, 2013 Author Share Posted March 7, 2013 (edited) 55 gal. Clown, gramma, damsel, cardinal, engineer goby (never once seen this guy eat and he's huge). I will put 2-3 pinches in and watch it get eaten. Maybe 1-2 pellets fall hidden each time. Probably 20-25 pellets a day I guess. I used to feed less, but I started feeding daily and the response in coral coloration has been noticeable. Even my easy sps look better. Aside from a chalice I'm trying to get light acclimated the corals seem to respond well to it. But my tank is getting a little messy looking. Not explosive hair algae or cyano. Just lots of detritus and biofilm Edited March 7, 2013 by Bpb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 I assume you mean the .5 pellets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 I feed a mix of NLS pellets and Formula 2 pellets. 2x a day normally. I mix in a chunk, maybe nickle-quarter sized, of Rods or a cube of PE Mysis whenever I feel like it(maybe 3-4x a month). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 I feed 2 pinches of Spectrum pellets (.5) daily. Some days I'll feed maybe a 3rd of a Formula 1 cube instead of the pellets. I try to feed them twice on weekends. 1 clown, 2 chromis, 1 firefish, 1 engineer goby, 1 six-line wrasse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted March 7, 2013 Author Share Posted March 7, 2013 It's the Thera + 1mm I believe. Too much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juiceman Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Lol, I feed..... Too much Probably 7-8 pinches of nls pellets daily 3 frozen cubes of mixed foods (mysis, brine, etc) daily And nori daily Occasional coral food every other day or so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Capt. Obvious Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Lol, I feed..... Too much Probably 7-8 pinches of nls pellets daily 3 frozen cubes of mixed foods (mysis, brine, etc) daily And nori daily Occasional coral food every other day or so. How's your skimmate look after all that feeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Lol, I feed..... Too much Probably 7-8 pinches of nls pellets daily 3 frozen cubes of mixed foods (mysis, brine, etc) daily And nori daily Occasional coral food every other day or so. Caveat: You run biopellets. Heavy feeding is pretty much required Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juiceman Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Lol, I feed..... Too much Probably 7-8 pinches of nls pellets daily 3 frozen cubes of mixed foods (mysis, brine, etc) daily And nori daily Occasional coral food every other day or so. How's your skimmate look after all that feeding It's black pretty much all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 You're right, there certainly are a range of opinions on this. This 4 1/2 year old tank has two Ehiem autofeeders feeding four times a day with two feedings at each time with Spectrum pellets for about a daily total of two teaspoons or 1 gram (roughly equal to 9 grams of frozen). Most days it also gets about 6 cubes of various frozen foods and nori. System does not have a skimmer but is using lighted and cryptic refugiums, the phosphates are about .011 ppm (Elos) and I have no idea what the nitrates are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestep Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Most days it also gets about 6 cubes of various frozen foods and nori. System does not have a skimmer but is using lighted and cryptic refugiums, the phosphates are about .011 ppm (Elos) and I have no idea what the nitrates are. I might start feeding a few cubes a day if my tank will look like that... What volume is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Jestep, It's a 500 gallon DT with another hundred gallons in the various sumps and lighted and cryptic refugiums. Along with the fast coral growth I really credit the use of the two different types of refugiums for controlling the phosphates without needing to use GFO. For the first three and a half years they were around .06 ppm and this was without changing out any of the mud as is reccomended by the manufacterer or Leng Sy who developed the mud methodology. By the way the lighted refugium was about 2/5s the footprint of the DT so based on the results I've had I'd say refugiums can be much, much smaller than the DT and still be very beneficial, I've heard some say they need to be a significant percentage of the DT to work well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooks Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 I've always fed 3-4 times daily. Fishies love it. Water hates it. So... Weekly water chargens are an absolute must. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Grog Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Pellets once a day, small pinch, maybe 5X during the week. Feed the tanks something frozen one day a week. (They seem to like squid and mysis the best) One day, no food. Mantis and nems get silversides once a week to ten days. Couple of drops of Oyster Feast every 2-3 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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