How often do you feed your fish?

[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...

[untamed]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Delphinus]

I'll pipe in here with that I think it probably depends on your fish whether you can get away with feeding every other day. I used to do this too. But I noticed with some of my fish they appear a bit stressed when they get too hungry (my tang and rabbitfish in particular). It manifests itself as aggression, which leads to fin nips and other artifacts of fighting (missing scales, bruising, that sort of thing).

Also some fish simply don't have the digestive systems to carry them over that long between feedings. Essentially they are pigging out, then starving, then pigging out, then starving. .. And their lifespans will likely be truncated as a result. Again, this just applies to some fish though, for others it may not be a big deal.

So basically in general I think feeding "less, more often", is better than feeding "more, less often." But ultimately, by observing your fish's behaviours you will notice if a particular schedule is "working" or "could be better."

Just my $0.02..

[Joe Reefer]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

But ultimately, by observing your fish's behaviours you will notice if a particular schedule is "working" or "could be better."

Well said, I couldn't agree more. I think you can tell alot about how the tank is doing by just standing back and watching before you do anything to the tank.

[mseepman]

This might be a stupid question, but when you rinse your frozen food, how do you then soak it?