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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. |
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...
I think you're good. Just watch the water quality and you're good. |
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 used to feed 6-8 times a day since I work at home.
Now once a day usually. Some pellets and a squirt of mysis. 1/2 sheet of nori. Done. |
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