Feeding And How Offen? (2 Viewers)

[Niko5]

How offen does everyone feed their fish. And How much do you feed them?

 

[dfimble]

I feed my fish every night. I forget or am too lazy sometimes... and on weekends I tend to feed morning and night.

I try to have alternate between heavy and light feedings every night. That way the I know that ALL the fish are getting a chance to eat. As far as how much... if I am feeding with Eric B's stuff, I generally feed 2 to 3 cubes. (A cube is same size as what you would buy in stores.) The quantity is enough that it forms a nice cloud in the water for about 3 minutes. After that its gone.

I use not to feed as much when the tank was younger... I guess my fish are just pigs!

David

150 Gal tank with 11 fish.

 

[aqua-nut]

I have two small clowns, a small regal tang, a medium sized purple tang, a cleaner wrasse and a lawnmower blenny in a 150.

After a good talking to by Keith over at Aquatic Design, I'm a believer that fish need a lot less food than I thought. He contends, and I agree, that just because the fish will consume everything you put in a tank in a couple of minutes doesn't mean they're hungry, that it's good for them to eat like pigs all the time, or that they're not just pooping it all out all over the tank instead of digesting it properly and converting it to energy.

I feed my fish a variety of foods, every day, and sometimes it's not every day but every other day... nori, squid, mysis, frozen brine and live brine and raw shrimp, no cocktail sauce... they just don't like it with sauce.

What I am doing now is to soak the food in Marine Zoe. This stuff is absolutely wonderful for keeping your fish (and inverts, corals, etc.) colorful, happy and it keeps them from getting diseased or parasitic. My buddy turned me on to Zoe years ago and I've been a fan ever since.

Zoe may be expensive, but I had a yellow tang and a maroon clown get large and fat with it and live in my tank... with five tear down and moves mind you... for seven years. And I only do water changes about three times a year.

My motto: Feed sparingly with excellent, vitamin enriched food and duplicate the ocean the best you can...

 

[Wildfire]

I feed "n times per day" when n is any number from 1 to 3 (depending on when I think about it, and if the tank looks hungry). I feed my tank about 1 cube of brine shrimp and 2 pinches of spirulina. My inhabitants are:

1 Purple Tang
1 Flame Angel
4 Green Chromis
1 Royal Gramma