How often and how much do you feed your tank?

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journey0820

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Hi there,
Curious about how often people are feeding their tanks, what they are feeding and how much. I think it would help if folks could include some tank specs (tank size, creatures, filtration) so we can put your feeding in perspective. This could be fun!
 
Once or twice a week when I had my 10 gallon nano up. Had a sixline, cleaner shrimp, and small CUC. Also a bunch of coral. Filtration was 15 lbs of LR that was originally in a 5 year old 100 something gallon system. And a 2.5" layer of sand.

3-7 times a week with my current 55 gallon. Same livestock + a little more CUC. 55 lbs of LR and a 2" layer of sand.

What about you, journey0820?
 
I try to feed our 90g every day, but it tends to end up being more like every other day. The tank gets a mix of various dry marine pellets or a cube of frozen mysis shrimp -- thawed, strained, then soaked in Selcon. Every so often, I'll substitute in a frozen cube of Formula 1 and/or Forumla 2, frozen reef plankton, or some other frozen cube marketed for saltwater fish, as well as feeding some of our corals 1/2 - 1 frozen silverside (thawed and soaked in Selcon).

We have just 3 fish at the moment -- a pair of black and white ocellaris clowns and a Watanabe angel. There's quite a few corals in our tank. Not too many snails and hermits in our tank... maybe a dozen various snails (besides those tiny ones that come on a lot of LR) and 20 hermits. There's numerous vermetid snails, various tube and spaghetti worms, and a fair share of micro brittle stars.

Filtration is about 125 lbs of LR, 5"+ DSB, protein skimmer, 20g refugium of macroalgae.
 
I feed 3-4 times a week with a mix of different foods and vitamins. How much varies as to which fish I am feeding, The grouper and eel- 2-4 pieces 1-2 times a week. Niger,dwarf angel lunar wrasse and damsel get mysis-frozen angel food krill mixed 3-4 times a week.
 
Well, I'm curious because lots of people warn the hazards of over-feeding, but I don't really know what underfeeding looks like.

My stock is in my signature line but right now I'm feeding MAYBE once a week - a mix of 1/2 cube frozen brine and a cap full of marine snow. I worry about my guys going hungry but also see that my nitrates are at 40 and worry about putting more crap in the tank!
 
I try to feed at least once per day but usually twice. The fish that take pellets, I feed a mix of Ocean Nutrition 1-2 pellets for 2 minutes twice a day.

I alternate frozen mysis, brine each day. I also feed 1 cube of cyclops at least one time per day.

I have recently started feeding 2 tspns per day of Reef Nutrition live Rotifiers per day.

Fish

75g Display

Maroon Clown Pair
4 Chromis
Hectors Goby
Rainfords Goby
Scooter dragonette
Bipartitus Leopard Wrasse
Starry Blenny
Hi-Fin Goby/Pistol shrimp

29g Secondary Refugium

Percula Clown Pair
Bi-Color Blenny

20 or so SPS and a few LPS and softies.
Octopus NW 200 skimmer
Phosban Reactor with Pura Complete
Primary refugium housing Chaetomopha
Secondary refugium housing Red Sea pulsing Xenia and Silver Elongata Xenia.

Nitrate reading today read less than 5ppm

Hoping the Xenia refugium will lower that even more once it matures.
 
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