What is your feeding schedule/food?

[Ace25]

I am curious as to what peoples feeding habits are like, brief example of tank size, fish, corals, and food. I will start.

29G
12 fish - many gobies/clown/psuedo/wrasse/dwarf angel
corals - softies, LPS, 1 SPS.

Feeding - Daily - 3 frozen cubes. Mix of mysis, spirulina, omega brine shrimp, prime reef, and bloodworms. I randomly choose 3 out of those. Few drops of Reef Nutrition ArctiPods and Phytofeast and a few drops of Kent Chromaplex and Zooplex. Mix it all together in a cup for a few minutes, add more water from the aquarium to the cup, then use a turkey baster to disperse it throughout the tank, target feeding my frogspawns and anemone.

[SpockthePuffer]

I have a 55 gallon with 6 fish (valentini puffer, midas blenny, watchman goby, coral beauty, royal gramma, ocellaris clown)

I have some frozen cube foods I feed (brine shrimp, squid and mysis)
I have pellets formula one and two and some seaweed stuff
and then I feed mussels, shrimp and clams

Today I just made my own frozen food blend type of the thing, I took some chopped clams I bought and put it in a blender with some shrimp and I poured some of the vitamins I usually soak food in and I cut up some small pieces of that seaweed stuff that you usually put in clips in the tank. So blended that all up and put it in a container to freeze. It was probably the grossest thing ever and I almost barfed, I hate the smell of frozen food.

I usually feed some pellets in the morning and then later on I feed one of the frozen things, whatever I feel like whipping up for them.

I use a feeding stick to feed the goby because sometimes nothing floats down to him since the other fish are such pigs.

[Catpicklesdog]

182 G
18 fish -tang, blenny, goby, mandarin, cleaner wrasse, dot & dash flasher, maroon clown, 2 Bangaiis and 9 chromis.
corals - softies, LPS & SPS.
Various crustaceans

Feeding - Daily - I mix an assortment of frozen food (squid, krill, mysis, brine, emerald entree, cyclopeeze, garlic, abidec and artemia. I mix it all in a bottle (after rinsing it) and give a squirt each day. Every couple of days I target feed the corals with krill and mysis, give the anemone some mussel, gamma fish or half a king prawn stuffed with mussel and occasionally chuck a few chunky bits in for the crabs and lobster.

Every other day I hang a sheet of Nori and every couple of months I chuck some pods in the sump!

[Grins]

55g
herbivores
get 1/4 sheet of nori twice a day, and some ocean nutrition II flake once a day

carnivores
cyclopeeze 1x day, ocean nutrition flake 1x day and then I change up the flake with frozen of some variety maybe 3x week

bubble coral & brittlestar
silverside maybe 2-3x week

and then I use coral food maybe 1-2x week. The tank is pretty nutrient rich though so if I skip the coral food on occasion I don't panic.

[salty420]

75g
9 fish, corals, rbta, green brittle star

feed 2x day
the fish are basically pigs that will eat anything that hits the water. with the exception of my pj cardinal. so because of her and now with the angels i've changed up feeding a bit - i used to feed once a day in my 37g, just frozen at night.
now i feed a variety - on any given day i'll pick 1-2 of these in the morning and 1 at night

FROZEN
Rod's food (i think this is only available right around me in illinois, sorry guys!)
Mysis
Brine shrimp
Emerald entree

and then sometimes i'll throw in one of these dry

Prime Reef
Cyclop-eeze
Formula one pellet
some other pellet that was in a bag that i busted so i put in a tupperware and it's the only dry my pj will eat and i don't know what it is

and i give silversides to the GBS and the RBTA. also DT's phytoplankton a couple times a week.

[Amphiprion]

I tend to feed corals/anemones more than fish. My anemone is fed 3-4 times per week, corals fed 2-3 times (usually only ones that take larger food matter, like brain and bubble coral). When I had my other corals, they would be fed about once per week, if that.

Fish are fed on no particular schedule. Sometimes daily, sometimes every few days, sometimes a week or longer. In either case, I could go for quite a while without feeding, as they seem adept at finding all they need. As an experiment, I waited about 3 weeks before feeding (obviously with careful observation) and there wasn't so much as a skinny fish. All did well. I can't say I recommend this for every tank, however. My tank is OLD, so that allows for a lot more natural foodstuffs to be present.

[Grins]

Rod's food (i think this is only available right around me in illinois, sorry guys!)

One of my favorite stores has a display at MACNA and saw Rods there and now carries it here..yipeee

[salty420]

One of my favorite stores has a display at MACNA and saw Rods there and now carries it here..yipeee

really? that's cool! rod is pretty close to me, he breeds some really nice onyx clowns...

[AnnetteG]

you can order Rod's from marinedepot.com. Has to be shipped overnight though, so kinda pricey.

I'm doing basically what you are doing Ace, except that I feed one cube mixed with either just tank water, or some Reef Nutrition Arcti-pods or Phytofeast and I do it about 2 or 3x a day. Maybe I'm overdoing it? My fish are CONSTANT beggars and they eat voraciously when I feed them though, so I dunno. I have about a ton of hermits and snails and little worms and bristle stars and serpent stars and who knows what all in there so I don't worry too much about the leftovers. I never see any. I target some of the food to the bottom because that's where Scooter goes when it's feeding time and he'll eat prepared foods that he can catch.

I use a mix of mysis, marine cuisine, and formula 1 and formula 2. I'm not wild about how the Formula 1 and 2 stick together though. It's a PITA to have to mush it up before putting it in because if I don't, it just stays in big clumps. Probably won't buy them again. Well, maybe the Formula 1 because the fish love it. But they're not really taking to the 2.

I also clip in a strip of sea veggies every other day or so. And I give them a pinch of cyclop-eeze about once a day.


This is a great thread!