Feeding

[kbaker721]

I feed my tanks once a day usually in the evening. Is this ok or should I feed more? I was thinking about feeding in the morning, but all the fish are "asleep" - only the clown is out being active. They all seem to be doing well, just didn't know if I should feed them more.

29 sw - various inverts, coral beauty, red firefish goby, ocellaris clown

Also have 2 55 fw that I do the same with.

 

[VoodooChild]

That should be fine. Once in the morning and a smaller meal at night is also fine, but few have the time for two feedings. Most fish will "snap" awake when they smell food, but if you're worried just feed a little bit when they seem dormant and see if they react. Otherwise, like I said, once a day is fine.

 

[OrionGirl]

We feed in the evenings, every other day. Sometimes we skip 2 days. Of course, a lot will depend on what kind of fish you have, and the tank. The predatory fish (lion, eel, trigger) are fine with this, and growing. The reef fish, scooter blennies, tangs, and mandarin dragonettes are designed to eat throughout the day, instead of a few large meals a week. The reef has a good supply of copos and algaes for these grazers.

 

[Corax]

My feeding schedule is as follows:
OSI Marine flakes twice daily, M, T, T, F, S
Silver sides and prime reef soaked in selcon on Sunday and Wednesday.

I do this mainly for the anemone, it stuffs itself on the silversides and has easily tripled in size in the last 2 months. The OSI flakes are eagerly accepted and my fish are much more colorful than when they just got prime reef, vhp and silversides... Much easier to deal with than frozen foods too.

EDIT: Oh and my fish include clowns, a coral beauty angel, green chromis and a rabbitfish (he eats constantly on the bryopsis in my tank)