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Proper feeding of my fish in reef tank...am I over-feeding?
have a 150 gallon reef tank comprised of SPS, LPS and some softies along with 16 reef friendly fish. ALL looks healthy, but wondering if I am over feeding. Daily, I give a few pinches of marine pellets and a few pinches of Seaweed pellets as well as a piece of vegetation. I then break off a piece of brine shrimp about the size of a quarter and feed after it is thawed. Is this an adequate daily feeding or am I over-doing it? All food seems to go pretty quickly. Thought?
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If you're happy with the SPS coloration you're getting then I would say no you're not over feeding. You could try switching the brine with mysis as that's more nutritious and would allow you to cut back on it a little without effecting the fish health.
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So its not just me Lol I have a 90g and I feed equivelent. About 4 cubes of frozen, pellets in the morning and night and about a cup of different powered foods and additives corals love it fish get leftovers
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I feed about 1/2 cube per feeding, usually feed every 2 days or so. I don't have many fish though. It keeps things easy, I clean the glass every 2 weeks and even then it's not very dirty. |
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I overfeed like mad. I have anthias which need a damn near constant food supply broadcast fed into the tank. I feed a dime size of fish roe, a pinch of cyclopeeze and 1 to 2 pinches of NLS pellets - 2 to 4 times a day! I think I've gone through 1.5 lbs of fish roe in 3 or 4 months for 3 fish. Oh, and this is a 50 gallon...
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Wow, do I ever under feed! I feed once, every other day and alternate between a half cube mysis or a pinch of Nls pellets. 9 fish sps dominated 70 gallon, almost two years old. I used to feed everyday but put them on a diet when they got fat. That was around 6 months ago.
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i knew i was missing something ......fish......(slaps forehead lol)
the fish only get nls pellets directly, the corals are target fed mysis,cyclopeeze,brine,pp,baby brine and some kent and fauna marin products haha my suncorals eat a full turkey baster in one sitting:P
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I usually feed mysis and brine once a day but keep feeding the tank till everyone is full, trying to gut load them before I take off on vacation, pellets 4 times a week.
after reading the thread I feel like I under feed, although I dont rinse the food just add it in with all the oils and nutrients and the algae grows in the scrubber like mad, I purposely do this also so my seahare has food to eat in the DT.
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