How often do you feed your fish?

supersmile · #1 02-01-2008, 02:59 AM

So I have been feeding my fish one frozen cube of mysis shrimp once a day. I have been developing the purple slimy algae and have been told it is from protein in the water from excess feeding. I am wondering if I should be feeding only every 2nd day??? I have a 44 gallon tank.

Todd · #2 02-01-2008, 03:05 AM

You can always rinse your mysis before you feed. I use a tea strainer, put the mysis in there, into a glass of water for a few minutes and shake off excess water and then feed. Also lets me feed a little bit then wait a few minutes to make sure everyone comes out to get some food.

christyf5 · #3 02-01-2008, 04:16 AM

Rinsing your food first will definitely reduce nutrients that algae might feed on. Red cyano can also be due to low flow in some areas so you might want to think about that.

If your fish are nice and fat and you're not having to target feed anyone theres no reason why you can't cut back and feed every other day until the algae is gone then slowly ramp it back up. If you don't want to cut back, you can always increase water changes or increase skimming. Rinsing helps alot more than you'd think too

mr_alberta · #4 02-01-2008, 04:40 AM

I usually feed my fish every second day. Doesn't seem to hurt them as they are all nice and plump as far as I can see...

untamed · #5 02-01-2008, 05:14 AM

Pellets in the afternoon if I'm home....Major feeding of assorted frozen foods each evening....but I probably don't have the type of super-clean system that most people seem to want. The filtration system seems to have evolved to handle it.

bv_reefer · #6 02-01-2008, 05:30 AM

for me flow didn't help,when i first got cyano i had 1 koralia-3 in there and it was still spreading rapidly, so i added in a maxijet 900 and still nothing, at the end i just ended up siphoning out the majority of it and dosing that blue vet red slime control and never saw it since, for me it definitely came from over feeding, brine shrimp in particular.

mark · #7 02-01-2008, 05:41 AM

Guess the amount you feed depends on the amount of fish but seen some big cubes. I feed daily usually flake, pellets and nori but if mysis use about 1/4tsp and that's with couple tangs, foxface, damsels, wrasse and clown.

Dealt with cyano in my 75g by increasing flow and changing to ro/di. The ro/di might be debatable but pretty sure the flow helped.

Drock169 · #8 02-01-2008, 06:53 AM

I feed three times a day. Pellets in the morning and evening (only what the fish can eat), mysis soaked in selcon/tropic marin equivalent, and I keep an algae clip with dried nori in rhe tank at all times (whatever the fish dont eat, the abalone eats at night).

bv_reefer · #9 02-01-2008, 06:57 AM

i feed flake right when the lights go on at noon, then around evening i i put a garlic-soaked sheet of seaweed for the sailfin tang and feed the rest brine shrimp and krill soaked in garlic, and then an hour before the lights go off, 1/2 flake and 1/2 pellet

Murminator · #10 02-01-2008, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mr_alberta

I usually feed my fish every second day. Doesn't seem to hurt them as they are all nice and plump as far as I can see...

I'm with Harvey I'm all over the map every day every second sometimes I miss a weekend and by the looks of my fish thay are not starving