Feeding Habits

[Gizmo]

I'm trying to gauge how often people feed their livestock.

Thanks

[muck]

Pretty much every day. (with skipping a day here and there)

[Ruth]

Same as Ryan - pretty much every day even if it is just a sheet of nori. I am battling nitrates in one tank though so I think I better cut back or make it a FOWLR. Too many brown corals.

[Chaloupa]

Every day....and sometimes twice they seem pretty happy though !

[Funky_Fish14]

Before the tang... I only had a mandarin(that didnt eat prepared foods), a clownfish, and a pajama cardinal. The clownfish and pajama cardinal learned quickly that the refugium's output provides a constant supply of live critters, from pods, to zooplankton, to mysid shrimp(not mysis). I was only feeding every second day at the most, due to the constant live food supply(the pajama cardinal grew like a beast from when I got him after learning this). I now have a 5" orange shoulder tang in the tank as well, and thus feed once or twice a day now. He has quite the apetite. Eats about anything I throw in the tank even if I feed 3 times a day, for 10 minutes at a time.

My(their diet) has also become very varied, with mixes of frozen foods, as well as shrimp, octopus, squid, clams, mussels(all frozen), multiple different planktons, nori, different vegetable flakes, many different pelleted foods, formula two pellets, and finally still the live food supply from the fuge.

And the mandarin still wont eat prepared foods even with all that, lol.

[EmilyB]

Twice a day.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Twice a day for the fishies. Three times a day for the ponies (seahorses). They get a heavy morning feeding of frozen mysis (PE & Hikari) & an afternoon feeding of live brine shrimp fed with spirulina powder & a third nightly feeding of mysis usually.

Good thing I have a heavy duty skimmer.

[BMW Rider]

I use automatic feeders to give a morning feeding of flake and dried foods, then I feed frozen food in the late afternoon or evening. The reef tank also gets a strip of nori for the yellow tang daily.

[wetcoast]

300ml of Phytoplankton daily (2 different strains)
Little sprinkle of Flake every day in the evening
A chunk of my frozen fish mush (mysis, selcon, brine, roids, cyclopeeze, krill, mussels, daphnia, scallops) every 3 days.

Seems to keep things going well - Am sure I could ramp it up a bit...

[Joe Reefer]

Originally Posted by muck

Pretty much every day. (with skipping a day here and there)