feeding those little buggers - how much is too much?

[Milad]

ok, when I first started my tank, I was feeding pellets automatically 4 times a day and every day I was feeding some mysis or brine shirmp. also put some nori in every day.

I removed some GFO and started getting all kinds of algea everywhere.
I also had an oil slick at the top of the tank (which turned out it was because of my overflow wasnt tweaked right)
and my ntirates were 20

anyways, because of the above three things, i turned back my feeding to twice a day, 12 hours apart. three times a week i do nori, and twice a week i do mysis.

my fish seemed to be ALOT happier when they were getting fed several times a day. now they fight all the time, they chase each other around. I even saw my mimic chase the yellow which ive never seen any aggression from that mimic tang ever.

So my question is, all these things I read about not feeding to much, is there a science behind it? It seems its better to feed small amount many times a day than just feeing twice a day. it seems to me there must be a balance between stuffing that fish so hes happy and not feeding your tank.

im leaning to putting my feeders on 4-5 times a day timer and small amounts.


o btw since I lowered the feeding, ive also introduced bio pellets which seem to have destroyed the nitrates and phosphates because they are now 0.