Afraid of Overfeeding???

Yup, i even got my dragonets to eat flakes!...heck everything in my tank eat the flakes and get frozen for a treat when im not lazy

 

I WASN'T ASKING YOU!!

I thought Ferret died?

 

I feed small amounts daily and mix the stuff up alot. I feed Lifeline both the vege and the carnivore, Flake, Seaweed, Live Brine, Pellets and my own home recipe made up weekly. Any of the dry stuff I use Garlic and presoak it. Thats just for the fish. I target feed the corals and use Phyto, Zoo, Cyclop-eeze and Mysis. Some of them get the home recipe too. I prefer small feedings more often rather then large feedings. I also mix it up to give variety, stimulate appetite, cover my feeding needs and try and simulate what I feel they would get in their home-life. Besides who wants pizza for every meal? I used to feed twice a week but get better results with this new approach just keep it small.

 

I feed mostly flake now.. about every other day.. just enough to let the fish eat for about 2 minutes.. I also add it to the tank slowly so it is not a flake storm.. Once a week or so I feed frozen food.. and it is just a little... maybe 1/8 of a cube.. My tang eats so much algea you can see it in his gut.. I also add zoo and phytoplankton once in a while.. The fish eat some of the zooplankton.. I was feeding mostly frozen food but have been battling an algea bloom due to high phosphates.. cutting back on feeding and swithing to flake seems to have helped a lot..

 

For all the money in china I can't seem to get my yellow tang to eat dried seaweed that comes in sheets. I have tried it on a clip, tied to a rock, crumpled and soaked....you name it, he avoids it. I have seen him picking at the rock occasionally. He ravishes any mysis or brine I add and will also eat flake when I feed it. He just doesn't want anything to do with lettuce, spinach, seaweed or even broccolli..........hmmmmm he is not starving as he is pretty fat but I would like him to have a balanced diet.

 

I have a chevron and hes not really supposed to eat seaweed. but I rubberband it to a rock and left it till it was gone, hes mostly a scraper of what ever in the tank. I guess Im lucky even the dottyback loves the seaweed. I feed twice a week split the week and in the middle I add seaweed on the clip. add zoo and vert and phto some by taget feed and just add to periodically during the other days. small amounts. Fish are like other animals they hunt for food and some times it takes awhile to find it. sometimes days.

 

I feed my fish a pinch of flake food twice a day. Never more than they'll eat in a minute or two. I have to target where I place it, or the Clown and Domino would eat most of it, and the Firefish and Dottyback would get nothing. Twice a week, I place a small strip of either algae or seaweed for the Yellow Tang (she loves it). Occasionally, some brine shrimp for a treat (all the fish go crazy for that, and the Banded Coral Shrimp goes nuts, too). Once every couple of weeks, a sliver of tuna for the anemone and for the starfish.