How Often Do You Feed ?

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  1. RedGambit

    RedGambit Giant Squid

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    13 Fish, Feed them every day, 2-3x but very small amounts and variety to keep up with their grazing habbits.
     
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  3. sollie7

    sollie7 Millepora

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    little piece of a cube 1-2 times a day
     
  4. Rocheal

    Rocheal Astrea Snail

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    I am very, very new to this but I have been feeding 2x/day in very small amounts. I only have a true perc clown and added a brittle star yesterday to clean up what has fallen to the floor.
     
  5. acemow

    acemow Purple Spiny Lobster

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    I feed my homemade mush 2X a day, with Selcon added every third feeding. I do this because of the feeding habits of my fish. I feed a small amount each feeding. In my nano, I put a very small amount in for two damsels and some coral, once in A.M. I isolate and target feed my sun coral between once a week and every ten days with a mix of SW, mysis, cyclopese and ZoPlan
     
  6. Jake

    Jake Sea Dragon

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    1 juvenile yellow tang, 2 clowns, 2 other damsels and 1 yellow watchman goby

    I feed twice a day:
    1) Around 8am: I throw in 5-10 new life spectrum pellets twice. This is consumed in 5 seconds or less each time.
    2) Around 6pm: Very small pinch of spirulina flake food. This takes about 20 seconds to be consumed.

    I also put in a veggy clip with a small leaf of spinach at 6pm and remove it before I go to sleep (usually around 75% gone).

    I target feed the goby with a small piece of dried krill once or twice a week as it has trouble competing with the other fish.
     
  7. patrick824

    patrick824 Montipora Digitata

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    livestock is in my sig...

    i feed 1-3 times a day, normally morning is spirulina flake, afternoon some granule food and/or emerald entree, and at night veggies, sand eels (stingray) and freeze dried krill (eel)

    i wouldnt feed so much normally but with base rock and a young tank there is no algae for the rabbitfish to eat at and no pods for the blenny and such
     
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  9. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    once a day

    i feed a mix of frozen brine mysis and bloodworms soaked in garlic, i cut a small slice off of each cube and slowly dumb the food in, i have the powerhead on feed mode and by the time the normal mode comes on nothing floats up so thats how i know i dont overfeed, when i first dump it in, it seems like a lot but my fish are pigs and eat it all
     
  10. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    My 37 gallon w/ 6 fish: I feed twice a day, about 1 cube total of mysis or brine, and I mix in flakes, pellets and bloodworms.

    My 90 gallon: Is a disaster right now, and only has two fish, so they don't eat much...but I do feed twice a day.
     
  11. ccscscpc

    ccscscpc Millepora

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    I feed 3x's a week, 1 cube, some dried seaweed.
    I have only 5 fish right now...couple of clowns, tang, 2 damsels.

    I dont want to create a nitrate problem that is why I only feed 3x's a week!
     
  12. hot_dr_papi21

    hot_dr_papi21 Plankton

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    i feed seaweed soaked w/ garlic every other day, and pellets or brine w/ plyankton the oppiste days.