How often should I be feeding my fish? I feed them a combo of flakes, frozen mysis shrimp and frozen fromula one meaty food twice a day. Is this too much, not enough or about right?
It depends how long your system has been established and much natural food you have in there. I would not feed twice a day. Try cutting back to only once a day and only as much as they will eat in a 10 minute period. After a few weeks I would cut back to every other day.
I agree -- once a day or once every other day. You should also try to switch to frozen food only, as most flake and pellet foods contain preservatives that fuel algae growth.
I feed once a day. I'm feeding a 2" clown in one tank and a 2" damsel in the other tank. Neither eats much. I alternate between the following frozen foods in cube form:
Marine Cuisine - sort of an all-in-one food mostly meat
Mysis
Blood worms
Emerald Entree - another all-in-one food but mostly veggies
I usually un-thaw 1 cube at a time. When it's gone (3 or 4 feedings) I'll switch to a different cube.
I feed a fair amount of pellets in the morning and either mysis or brine (one full cube) in the evening. Every other day I either stick 1/2 a vegetable or meat? tablet on the side of the tank for them to nibble on. It's about the size of a dime before I cut it in half.
They seem to eat everything I put in. There is rarely left over food. My water levels appear to be good. I do a 20% water change every week.
I've had mine almost a year, still don't know what I'm doing. Thank God for this site !!
I feed mine once a day. I alternate between brine shrimp, mysis, and flake when I'm lazy. I add garlic and vitamins to the flake. I keep a mixed up container in the fridge. I also add blood worms and pellets occasionally. The cleaner shrimp grab them pellets and take off with them.
I would not say your over feeding your tank. Your tank is not a year yet? So you don't have the live food population up so you should be feeding that much.
When I had my fish only tank, I fed twice a day. Last spring I transferred everything to a bigger tank and made it reef. I took everything from the 46 gal to the 90 gal. I was still feeding twice a day till I seen on here, a lot of people only fed once. So, I cut back to once a day.
I had a feeling I was overfeeding. I'm going to cut back to once a day for about a month then start every other day. I just set my fuge up last night so I'm going to order some pods to start growing in there. Thanks for all the help!
I feed mine once a day, but sometimes I skip a day. I have a low bioload anyway. I feed mysis (and once in a while, as a treat, I add spirulina) to the 125g, and the 45g gets mostly spirulina once a day.
I've been feeding my tank small amounts 2 times a day. My water parameters are great and I have 0 Nitrates. Last week I was gone for 4-days with no tank sitter and my fish seemed to be doing quite well when I got back. So I'm now thinking about decreasing my feedings. But I doubt I'd go to every other day because I'd probably forget which day I was on :sfish: :D.