I am having a problem with milky water. I think I am overfeeding my fish. How often should I feed each group of fish? I have clown and nigri trigger, porc. puffer, lionfish, and jeweled eel. Any help would be great!
feeding question
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Hello jbellx3, welcome to Aquaria Central.
In order to help you more productively, anyone who responds to your post will want to know some or all of the following, as well as some other info I'll doubtless forget to ask for. Here goes...
How long has your tank been running?
What's the size, including sumps, refugia, etc.?
What are your water parameters, especially Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate?
Are your fish more or less full grown, or juveniles?
When was the latest addition of livestock to the community?
What kind of lighting are you using?
When/what percent was your last water change.
What sort of filtration/water circulation do you have?
Dizzy yet?
In order to save you the grief of posting that same info over and over, the wise administrators of this fine site have provided a forum called Members Aquarium Specs. If you go there, you can read the instructions on the sticky at the top of the forum, start a thread dedicated to info about your favorite little piece of the ocean, and link it to your signature. That way, anyone who wants to help you can find all the vital info just a click away
Having said all of that, the short answer to your original question, about overfeeding your fish is:
Yes
I have > 90% chance of being right about that, even knowing nothing about your setup, because about 90% of all aquariums are overfed.
Please don't mistake this post for a flame, you most assuredly are welcome here at AC
In order to help you more productively, anyone who responds to your post will want to know some or all of the following, as well as some other info I'll doubtless forget to ask for. Here goes...
How long has your tank been running?
What's the size, including sumps, refugia, etc.?
What are your water parameters, especially Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate?
Are your fish more or less full grown, or juveniles?
When was the latest addition of livestock to the community?
What kind of lighting are you using?
When/what percent was your last water change.
What sort of filtration/water circulation do you have?
Dizzy yet?
In order to save you the grief of posting that same info over and over, the wise administrators of this fine site have provided a forum called Members Aquarium Specs. If you go there, you can read the instructions on the sticky at the top of the forum, start a thread dedicated to info about your favorite little piece of the ocean, and link it to your signature. That way, anyone who wants to help you can find all the vital info just a click away
Having said all of that, the short answer to your original question, about overfeeding your fish is:
Yes
I have > 90% chance of being right about that, even knowing nothing about your setup, because about 90% of all aquariums are overfed.
Please don't mistake this post for a flame, you most assuredly are welcome here at AC
I'm interested in the answers to those questions. Those are some aggressive fish, and they may not mix well for long. Getting a porcupine, eel and lion enough to eat in the presence of a very aggressive trigger can be a challenge...
Do you have a plan for dealing with the clown and puffer down the road? Both fish will outgrow your tank, and clown triggers are very, very well known for turning psycho overnight and killing all tankmates.
The trigger isn't teasing the eel, he's trying to figure out how to eat it. They tend to take out the eyes first.
Sorry--not a very positive outlook.
What are you feeding? How did you cycle the tank?
The trigger isn't teasing the eel, he's trying to figure out how to eat it. They tend to take out the eyes first.
Sorry--not a very positive outlook.
What are you feeding? How did you cycle the tank?
I feed the triggers and puffer twice a day, things like silversides, bloodworms, etc. I feed the eel and lionfish~ twice a week, things like big silversides, shrimp, and I buy fresh fish at the coast to feed them- seabass, snapper, salmon(rarly), squid, talapia. The eel only eats when hungry~ once a week some times more. I make one of the feedings goldfish~30 big and 20 small, everybody loves this.
Tank was cycled 2 months with various things, water was checked before any fish went in, all fish are healthy and doing well. Nitrie and Nitrate levels high, but I was told to expect this with new tank, everything else is fine.
I was worried about the eel eating the other fish not the other way around. I could see him going crazy in a feeding frenzy and eating someone, that is way I feed(try) one group on one side and the eel and lion on other. This has worked pretty good. When the eel comes out to eat or play it is at night and the triggers are usually fast asleep.
Tank was cycled 2 months with various things, water was checked before any fish went in, all fish are healthy and doing well. Nitrie and Nitrate levels high, but I was told to expect this with new tank, everything else is fine.
I was worried about the eel eating the other fish not the other way around. I could see him going crazy in a feeding frenzy and eating someone, that is way I feed(try) one group on one side and the eel and lion on other. This has worked pretty good. When the eel comes out to eat or play it is at night and the triggers are usually fast asleep.
I'd stop feeding the goldies--especially for the lion. Goldfish do not meet any nutritional needs of marine fish, and can cause serious intestinal blockage--they have a hard bony skull that can't be digested.
Otherwise--that's feeding an awful lot. The problem is, with the triggers, it's going to be needed to keep them from killing the other fish (mostly this applies to the clown). I would add a bunch of live rock and live sand, and a sump that you can stock with inverts (stars, hermit crabs, etc) to help deal with all the waste produced by these large predators.
Otherwise--that's feeding an awful lot. The problem is, with the triggers, it's going to be needed to keep them from killing the other fish (mostly this applies to the clown). I would add a bunch of live rock and live sand, and a sump that you can stock with inverts (stars, hermit crabs, etc) to help deal with all the waste produced by these large predators.
I have 40lbs of live sand mixed in with another 60lbs of sand. I also just added ~5lbs live rock. I have an ehiem wet/dry that is supposed to handle more than my tank. I also recently added a power filter to help. My tank with fish is only 4 months old, has it had time to produce all the beifical bactiria that is needed? I really have no room to put anything else.
The live rock is more beneficial than live sand. The filter is not rated for a heavily stocked, predator salt water tank--they rate them for moderately stocked FW setups. Sorry, but I really don't see this tank being very stable.