Feeding Survey, need your answers!!!!

[Thatgrimguy]

Every person in this hobby, whether new or old to the hobby; keeping a reef or fish only, you have to answer the questions about feeding.

I will condense the information gathered into a report after I get enough answers! Thanks for your time.
(try to keep the format and add your answers)

1.)When do you feed your tank?

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?

[nuff40]

Every person in this hobby, whether new or old to the hobby; keeping a reef or fish only, you have to answer the questions about feeding.

I will condense the information gathered into a report after I get enough answers! Thanks for your time.
(try to keep the format and add your answers)

1.)When do you feed your tank? twice daily, morning and evening

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?) Flake in the am Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef Flakes and shrimp flakes. Evening gets a mix of PE mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, scallops, reef caviar.

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding? no more than will be consumed within 5 minutes

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? mix is thawed, mixed with Garlic and re frozen in a thimble tray creating neat little food cubes.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)? Thaw in a cup of tank water and disperse in a high flow area. Add Marine Snow, capful and nano coral food three times a week, spoonful (tiny spoonful).

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do?(less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) overall health of the critters. like to see then fat and sassy.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. Variety is better. Do not overfeed. Skimmers go nuts when certain conctions are fed, too fine a blended mix creates a mess in the water column and the skimmer needs to be emptied twice an hour for about 12 hours.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 46 gal bowfront, heavy fish population.

[Thatgrimguy]

1.)When do you feed your tank? Every Morning and afternoon, coral on sunday

2.)What do you feed your tank (including brand name if you know it?)I alternate between H20Life 50/50 and Mysis w/ spirulina. I feed Oyster feast to the corals. And a half sheet of nori everyday (changes every time I buy a new pack)

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding? 1 Cube and half sheet of nori in the A.M. Coral foods I haven't figured out the right mix yet.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? I defrost the cubes in RO/DI water then pour the meat through one of my nets.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)? I pass the the net through the water! The nori is on a simple suction clip. Coral foods with a turkey baster watered down with tank water.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) I feed like I do because it's as much as I feel comfortable feeding till my new filtration gets here. And I think it's as much as my fish need, they eat every bit in 2min!

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. I still have a lot to learn on the food front!

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 210gallon with a medium bioload. When I add my 3 flasher wrasse I will add a pellet auto feeder to drop a small amount twice a day as well.

[Mandrake]

1.)When do you feed your tank?once a day, usually in the evening

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
usually Hikari frozen mysis and spirulina
3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
two cubes
4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
rinsed first in tank water
5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
I use a brine shrimp net to rinse frozen cubes and then dip the net in to display tank.
6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
I want my fish healthy and fat
7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
by feeding with a net my fish are not afraid of the net and if I have to catch one it makes it easier, some fish swim right into the net sometimes.
8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 120 gal. 1Tang, 3 wrasse, 1clown, 2 anthias.

[ajn81]

1.)When do you feed your tank?

5:00pm and 8:45pm


2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)

H20 50/50 with added Mysis for the fish. Cyclop-eeze for corals.


3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?

See question 5.


4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?

I keep a container of thawed frozen food mixed with tank water in the fridge that I fill up 1-2 times a week. This way I don't have to thaw before each feeding.


5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?

I use a syringe connected to a piece of stiff 1/4" tubing. I fill the tube full with the brine/mysis mix and target feed the fish then fill it 1/2 full and repeat. The corals I feed twice a week by filling the tube half way with cycop-eeze and target feeding.


6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)

I target feed to ensure that food is being eaten.


7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.

My fish seem to prefer brine to mysis, but I give them both anyway for nutrition's sake.


8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
130 gallons - 1 coperband, 1 starry blenny, pair of mandarin dragonets. Corals - mostly gorganians and goniopora.

[SawdustInTank]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
Mostly after work between 8pm and 12pm during the week. On weekends it will be first thing in the morning.

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
Spectrum Mini pellets, Roggers Reef Food, Dr. G's Brine Shrimp, Krill, Mysis Shrimp, and Cyclopeeze (the red frozen bar kind). I find that my live stock react better to Dr. G's than other brands that I have used in the past. My Sailfin tang, diamong goby, red choris wrasse, and tomato clown go crazy for it.

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
Dr. G's two cubes or a sliver of food from the Cyclopeeze bar, or a small junk of Roggers Food, about the size of a quarter. Roggers Food and the Spectrum is mostly for the fish.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
Take a cup of tank water and put the frozen food in until it thawes. I used to put the frozen food in ro/di and then dump the food in a shrimp net and then put it in the tank. IME, I find Dr. G's, Roggers Food, and Spectrum are pretty clean so I no longer do that. Also, the feeding schedule that I have works well for the tank.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
Sometimes I spot feed the rock anemones and acans. Most of the time I pour in enough to occupy the fish and then throw in the rest to get the coeals fed up. My tang has been known to snatch food out the mouths of corals. Such a greedy guy! I turn of the return pump and the two modded Maxi jets 1200's via the DA controller for 15 minutes but I leave the MP10 running on low speed. The MP10 keeps the food suspended helping to keep food from getting caught up in crevices and fouling the water up.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
I feed every other day. I find this to keeps the tank clean allowing me to make water changes every other week while maintaining parameters to my livestocks needs. [/COLOR]

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
IME the time I allow for feeding, the amount I feed, and what I feed keep everything in the tank happy. Not too much too little is working out well.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
75 gallon rimless with a medium/heavy population. I dont run a filter sock so I let my Vertex IN-100 be the work horse for the tank.

[rnscross]

1.)When do you feed your tank? Frozen morning and night, Auto feeder pellets 4 times a day between.

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
Frozen; Hikari mysis and spirulina brine, unknown cyclops/rotifers
Pellets; NLS thera A
3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
2 cubes frozen
auto doses about 0/5-1 teaspoon
4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
Melt in shotglass of tank water
5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
syringe. tageting corals(depending on frozen food size ie mysis>euphyllia rots>sps) and powerheads to create a snowstorm

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
I have alot of mixed angels that I feel need to be fed constantly to stop them eating my corals, I also like to vary their diet to ensure they get a good mix of macro and micro nutrients. Almost all foods are also able to be used by corals.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.

Auto dosing pellets seems to make my fish alot mellower when it comes to frozen, they still love it, but they arent going crazy aggressive over it anymore.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?[/QUOTE]

180g medium fish

[Thatgrimguy]

daily bump!! Please fill me out!

[LeslieP]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
Usually evenings, 1-2x per week
2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
home made mix - shrimp, flounder (or other white fish), scallops, minced garlic, cyclopeez, zoe, selcon, clams, nori, oyster feast
3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
About a quarter-sized piece
4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
thaw in cup with tank water, selcon and zoe
5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
drop into tank once thawed
6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
less feeding for nitrate/algae control, but fish are fat and corals are growing
7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
mince some in small pieces for larger fish, use food processer for corals and smaller inverts. Drop by small spoonfuls onto cookie sheet, freeze and then store in ziploc bags in freezer
8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 55g, light fish population, lots of LPS, SPS, softies

[Thatgrimguy]

Le bumpers! I'm hoping to get 50 replies for a decent sample size. Please fill me out!

[Allmost]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
morning before I leave to work, and also at night 2-3 times. depending on when I get home.
2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
NLS pellets, PE mysis, Brine, seaweed, banana, flakes. all enriched.
3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
untill they dont hunt food no more.
4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
rinse PE mysis in RO/DI water to lower po4, soak all dry and frozen food in AA and vitamines.
5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
top
6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
keeping anchilles and moorish Idol happy.
7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
feed small amounts, multiple times a day, feed a variety.
8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
200, eavy fish population, SPS, carbon dosing.

[duncantse]

Every person in this hobby, whether new or old to the hobby; keeping a reef or fish only, you have to answer the questions about feeding.

I will condense the information gathered into a report after I get enough answers! Thanks for your time.
(try to keep the format and add your answers)

1.)When do you feed your tank?
1x 3 days a week. Mon, Wed, Fri.

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
NLS pellets
3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
A pinch of pellets
4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
I'll shake my bottle of pellets first because they will then know it's time to get fed then I just drop it in the tank.
6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
The size of pellets is very important.
8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
125 gallon fowlr. Livestock at sig.

[curlykid]

1.)When do you feed your tank? once at 11 AM, and at random maybe twice later.

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?) I feed my LFS's mixture food (like Rod's Food), PE mysis, H2O life Fish&Reef, and occasionally some zooplankton.

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding? I feed till my fish have nice big bellies! :)

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? I thaw in a strainer, soak in garlic and amino acids, rinse a tiny bit, and serve with my fingers.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)? fingers

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) I feed to reduce nutrient buildup and clouding of the water, i also generally feed more mysis than other foods because i have Waspfish that don't take small food items.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use? when i have a friend watch the tank, he just dumps the thawed food right in the water, which causes algae issues, that's why i feed carefully.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 28 Gallons, light(ish) load, 1 large Red-Fin Waspfish (largest consumer), 1 small Red Fin Waspfish (doesn't eat much), 1 medium Helfrichi's Firefish

[cody6766]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
In the evening, every day around 6-8pm

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
Carnivore blend and, once or twice a week, a little flake food

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
A few small squirts. I squirt, let them finish it, squirt, repeat once or thrice. I feed a small pinch of flake when I feed it

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
I put a few oz of tank water in a squirt bottle and drop a frozen cube in once every few days.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
Small squirt in the top. Flake is submerged, then released into the flow

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
It keeps excess food out of the tank and still gives the fish plenty to eat

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
Nope, just that it makes fat, happy fish

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
30g cube with 20g sump. 4 small'ish fish, mixed reef. I'd say a light bioload, maybe medium.


I also broadcast feed coral frenzy a few times a month. I shut off the return and spread it around with the powerhead flow.

[LH77]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
After 9 pm daily (lights are on though whether feeding fish or corals).

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
NLS pellets, mysis, bloodworms, cyclopeeze

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
Either target feeding fish or corals

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
Rinse frozen food (mysis, bloodworms)
Soak dry food in selcon, then tank water.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
Usually with a syringe, sometimes turkey baster.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
Ensure each gets approriate amount of food and minimize waste.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
60 cube, 4 fish, stocked with LPS corals

[jiperalta]

1.)When do you feed your tank?

Morning and afternoon/night

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)

Homemade (crab, scallops, shrimp, flounder), Rod's fish food, mysis, frozen Formula 1, bloodworms, frozen rotifers, krill, oyster eggs, cyclop-eze, spirulina, spirulina brine shrimp, vitamins, and garlic.

Mix in baby container for 4-5 days. Also add apx 10 ml of Kick-Ich to food as needed for tangs.

Nori (from supermarket) every other day.

Occasionally, dry pellet

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?

Apx 10 ml.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?

Fill tupperware baby container with enough frozen foods to fill 2/3. Let thaw and remove excess liquid. Add vitamins, garlic, spirulina flake and any needed meds. Mix well. Lasts about 4-5 days.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?

Add to current and let it disperse throughout tank.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)

Mainly, I do it to provide a varied diet to seven fish and mixed coral tank. Everything eats at once, no spot feeding of corals.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.

Use good amount of RO/DI water to blend homemade fish food and then pour off excess liquid after blended to wanted consistency - keeps you from burning out blender motor.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?


90 gal mixed reef with heavy fish and coral population. Feeding for both fish and corals.

[robertjk7005]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
I leave algea clip in most of the time but do hand feeding when i get home around 7pm

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
plain nori sheets from the asian food market, instant ocean herbivore flakes, instan ocean omnivore flakes, ocean nutrition formula 2

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
2 pinches of flakes

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
take it out of the bag

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
pinch the food then put my fingers under the water line and slowly let it disperse into the tank, my clowns eat straight from my fingers

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
only 5 fish so not much to feed plus the nori strips keep them feed

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. nope

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?[/QUOTE]
120 gallon tank, i think medium fish pop. 2 perc clowns, 1 hippo tang, 1 yellow tang, 1 magnificent foxface

[BIG_KAHUNA]

Every person in this hobby, whether new or old to the hobby; keeping a reef or fish only, you have to answer the questions about feeding.

I will condense the information gathered into a report after I get enough answers! Thanks for your time.
(try to keep the format and add your answers)

1.)When do you feed your tank?
11AM
2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
super brine shrimp, mysis , prime reef, frozen seafood
3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
~ 1 cube
4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
small amount tank water, swish cube around then feed with large diameter pipette
5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
pipette
6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
general area target feeding, make sure some makes it to the bottom of the tank for the little critters
7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
not really, mixing all the food for like 4 days together works well so I dont have to remember what day what to feed
8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
57G reef, light fish population,heavy invert population :spin2:

[Crusty Old Shellback]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
Once a day in the late afternoon usually.

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
Various brands and sizes of pellet food and frozen cubes.

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
About 3 cubes and 3/4 tbsp of pellets. occasionally a sheet of nori from the asian market.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
No prep, just dump it in.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
See above.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
Easiest way to get a varitey of foods for the different fish I keep.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
variety is the spice of life. Good for fish health as well. ;)

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
400G tank. Was heavly stocked at one time with large, 12" tangs and other fish. Currently light stocked for the size tank it is. Currently have a large pink tail triger and large Majestic Angle. Also 4 dwarf angles, Copper banded butterfly, 4 Occalaris clowns and a few gobies.

[Thatgrimguy]

Bump! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed there feeding information so far!

[hamiltonguy]

1.)When do you feed your tank?

12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
Omega one flakes w/ garlic, PE (Piscine Energetics) Mysis, frozen cyclop-eeze, hikari baby brine shrimp

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?

A pinch (literally) of flakes, 1/2 cube of mysis, full cube of baby brine shrimp, a small clump of cyclop-eeze. I alternate these during the day, not everything at one time (ie. flakes at 12, mysis at 3, etc.)

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?

Thaw frozen foods in a net under tap water.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?

Just run the net through the tank.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)

I keep anthias so they required multiple feedings plus I just like to keep my fish fed.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?

75gallons, right now low-medium bioload but will eventually have a heavy bioload.

[Ron Reefman]

1.)When do you feed your tank? 8-9am

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?) Too big a variety to even thik about listing.

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding? I almost never have food left in the tank after a couple of minutes.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? Most gets mixed up in salt water in a beer mug and gets squirted in with a turkey baster.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
Turkey baster
6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) no reason

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. no

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?[/QUOTE] 180g & 85g medium bio load that is very diverse.

[agreeive?fish]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
. nori is kept in tank 24/7/365 other types of foods 2-3 times a day with a different food each time

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?) flakes,pellets,commercial frozen,fresh seafood and grocery store frozen seafood all with as many different types i can get my hands on

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding? i probably overfeed as i am a heavy feeder

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? if its not commercially prepared then its a cheese grater,knife or food processor

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)? toss in (no special feeding regime species at the present time)

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) to provide as varied of a diet as possible and to get the staple foods for the meat eaters, the algae/plant eaters ect

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. fresh water clams / oysters turn to mush in 1/2 second in a food processor

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
200g fowlr, 175g bow front fowlr, 215 g fowlr, 75g softy mini reef, 55g freshwater (x2) and 30g freshwater all medium stocked

[Thatgrimguy]

Anyone else? Please!! it just takes a few seconds!

[K916]

1.)When do you feed your tank?

Autofeeder at 8am and 4pm and twice after I get home from work at 7pm and 8pm




2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)


- Ocean Nutrition Flakes - Formula 1, Formula 2, Spirulina and Reef
- NLS Pellets
- ON mysis shrimp
- ON alage sheets
- Selcon and Kent Zoe at times. Its worked wonders when my fish needed it most




3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?


Around a pinch of food ... sometimes more




4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?


Just chuck it into the tank




5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?


Drop from above



6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)


I like to see my fish fat and healthy




7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.


Frequent feeds are good for the fish IMO



8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?

175 gallons FOWLR
heavy bioload

[zigzag1]

1.)When do you feed your tank?once a day, usually in the evening

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
usually Hikari frozen mysis and spirulina
3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
two cubes
4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
rinsed first in tank water
5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
I use a brine shrimp net to rinse frozen cubes and then dip the net in to display tank.
6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
I want my fish healthy and fat
7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
by feeding with a net my fish are not afraid of the net and if I have to catch one it makes it easier, some fish swim right into the net sometimes.
8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 120 gal. 1Tang, 3 wrasse, 1clown, 2 anthias.

Great idea here! I think I'll change how I feed. Thanks!!

[zigzag1]

(try to keep the format and add your answers)

1.)When do you feed your tank? Once daily, mid-day

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?) variety of dried or frozen foods, with Nori at every feeding

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding? Fish eat 2-3 minutes - coral food is never added.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? Nori and dried food have selcon added. Frozen food is well rinsed with RO/DI, then tank water.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)? dried and nori are on top water, frozen poured from rinse cup (going to change this to net method) - always on same end of tank.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) so ALL food is eaten by fish

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. Net feeding method so fish lose fear of it, in case capture is needed, will be implementing this going forward.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 125g - med bioload

[username in use]

1.)When do you feed your tank?3-12 times a day when Im in front of it

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)cyclopeeze, rotifers, daphnia, artemia nauplii, h20 50/50, rods reef, oyster feast, phyto, mini mysis

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?chunk of cyclopeeze size of a fingernail, chunk of rods, and a cube of one of the others which I switch. Twice a day I add a squirt of Oyster feast and phyto.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? Thaw it in a glass of tank water

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)? Turn off return pump and pour the mixture into the Vortech.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) Non photosynthetic tank

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. I need to do water changes :lol:

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
40g breeder/30g sump. 4 red spot glass cardinals and one small female squarespot anthias.

[jucario]

1.)When do you feed your tank? Twice a day

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?) home made mix, frozen commercial food (mysis, cyclops, spirulina etc) flakes (nls, h2o)

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding? one cube aprox

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? thaw in selcon

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)? throw it on top

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc) I like giving a variety of food

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use. home made mix is cheaper and seems more nutritional than commercial frozen preparations

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population? 130 gallons medium fish population

[Paul B]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
usually in the evening

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
live black worms, frozen mysis, frozen clams, pellets soaked in fish oil, freshly hatched baby brine shrimp every day

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
One cube of mysis, a few slices of clam. 10 or so oil soaked pellets, enough worms so each fish gets a few.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
Hatch the shrimp in a DIY hatchery, keep the worms in a DIY worm keeper, rinse the mysis and slice off thin pieces of clam

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
I target feed everything with a bulb feeder, kind of like a skinny baster

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
Everything gets what it is supposed to eat in the manner it is supposed to eat it.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
The oily foods get the fish into breeding condition and in that condition they are practically immune from everything

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
100 gallon reef, SPS, LPS about 15 fish

[GinaReef]

Every person in this hobby, whether new or old to the hobby; keeping a reef or fish only, you have to answer the questions about feeding.

I will condense the information gathered into a report after I get enough answers! Thanks for your time.
(try to keep the format and add your answers)

1.)When do you feed your tank?2-3 times early aft and evening

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)Omega Sea pellets, Tetra flake, Hakari carnivore, mysis shrimp, some fresh seafood

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?a few (3) pinches of two of the at a time

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding? frsh seafood is ground with pellet food and selcon(food processor) and frozen, Hakari pellets are ground (mortar& pestal)

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?sprinkle pellets to clowns, sprinkle ground pellets to corals and damsels, turkey baster the mysis and fresh seafood (to anemone)

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)different inhabitants, different foods

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?38 gal med -heavy load

[Jake007]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
Once per day at night. Usually around 10 PM.

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
I alternate between dry and frozen each day. I alternate the food chosen each day as well. I typically use on selection of food per day and alternate the type of food each day. Dry is Hakarri Marine S, Omega One flake, Spectrum, IO Marine Chips, IO Marine Pellets, Formula 2, Packet Instant Ocean (IO) Krill, Packet IO Brine. Frozen is PE Mysis, Rodgers, and Marine Quisine. I also feed a quarter sheet of green nori daily.
Coral feeding once per week with coral vibrance or cyclopese, drop in tank typical no spot feeding, ocasionally spot feed corals with turkey baster.

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
Not much compared to others. I feed a few pinches of pellets and a few pinches of flake along with quater piece of nori. On other days, half of a frozen cube and quarter strip of nori.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
Dry goes right in on the top of the water. Frozen gets defrosted in RO/DI and put in unless it is PE Mysis which I drain through a small net first. Sometimes I will add 6-8 drops of garlic to the nori.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?

Drop in the top. I use APEX and have a feed mode that turns off all pumps. then 5 min later turns on powerheads, then at 10 min turns on sump pump, then at 30 min turns on skimmer.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
All fish look fat and happy. Keep nutrients and algae down.

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
When I feed the coral vibrance or cyclopese, I get an algae film on the glass the next day.

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
120 Gal large 6-7" purple tang and 6 other fish

[SushiGirl]

1.)When do you feed your tank?
Sometimes at 7 AM, always at 5:30 or 6:00 PM.

2.)What do you feed your tank (brand name if you know it?)
Prime Reef Flake, Hikari Crab Cuisine pellets, PE Mysis, Hikari Mysis, Spirulina Brine Shrimp, algae sheets (currently Rod's that I won), zooplankton, and phytoplankton.

3.)How much do you feed your tank at each feeding?
A pinch of flake and a few pellets if I feed in the morning.
Crab pellets in the fuge and 2 cubes of frozen in the afternoon in the main tank.

4.)How do you prepare what you are feeding?
If I feed in the morning, a pinch of flake soaked in tank water (I use a specimen cup) and dispensed with a turkey baster. A few crab pellets, at least one of which I try to drop into the pistol shrimp's hole.

In the afternoon I turn off the 2 powerheads, thaw one PE mysis and either one Hikari mysis or one spirulina brine shrimp in about 3/4 of a specimen cup of tank water. Target feed one goby, the wrasse, and the cleaner shrimp first so I can feed the pistol shrimp, the palys, the peppermint shrimp, the brittle stars and the other goby and orbic cardinal. Also a few crab pellets in the fuge for the brittles and pods (small pods grab entire pellets and run LOL). For each baster of food, when the solid food is gone I squirt the "dirty water" over the corals. On Fridays I put a few drops of zooplankton and a few of phyto in another specimen cup, add tank water, mix it well, and target feed the feather duster and the corals. Once or twice a week I rubberband a smallish piece of algae to a rock and drop it in for the fighting conchs and the turbos (and any other snail, shrimp or crab that wants it). We have too many snails for our algae load (which is basically none) since they wiped it all out before it ever got started...I try to keep them alive for transfer when the new tank is set up and ready.

5.)How do you feed (feed tube, throw it on top, etc?)?
See above.

6.)What is the primary reason you feed in the way you do? (less feeding for nitrate control, a certain food for a certain coral, or feeding more for a certain fish species, etc)
To destress after work, and to make sure everyone gets fed. My hermits don't eat snails, my shrimp don't eat corals, and my fish don't eat corals, shrimp, or snails. I had a big rogue cleaner shrimp that ate all my stomatellas and killed and ate one of my cerith snails. The cerith must've been bad, because the shrimp died 2 days later!

7.)Anything special you have learned about feeding or a food recipe you use.
Well-fed livestock keeps aggression and bad behavior down (minus the occassional rogue), plus the soft corals love it. Overfeeding does not necessarily lead to algae issues (we have no algae, hence the heavy feeding). Also, I have a lot of frozen food in the freezer that nothing in my tank will touch!

8.)Basic Tank information: Tank size in gallons and heavy, medium, or light fish population?
55 gallon with 20 gallons in the sump. 4 fish (light), several inverts (heavy), no algae issues.