feeding question

rooky here been reefing about a year now looking for insite on feeding. I currently over feed my tanks in a big way but I do not have any reprocution from it...am I setting myself up for disaster?

MY Tank btw this is my first tank ever of any kind, never did any freshwater I have made many mistakes and have made some silly contraptions...but back to simple....i have not updated anything since march but if you want to see some of it you can visit www.BillWesterfield.com. My younger brothers thought I needed to learn web design at the same time so I could share...I got lazy...need to make my website better. also if you look at my site that silly deal I made for my pumps is gone, stand keeps changing that is why its just a frame and plywood..messing with dimensions eventually i will make it look nice...and my site sucks to

120 gal allglass w/2 600+gph overflows, 48x24x24
130lbs live rock...grrr I bought this before I knew we were killing stuff, but the stuff I got is uber, liverockusa.org.... Although I did only 2 orders ever my live rock looks better then any rock I have seen in any lfs. Mitch and Kathleen that run it are super awesome and communicative....only catch is you have to pick it up from the airport.
80lbs of home made agro....(own twist...balloons are easy way to make uber caves!!! I used pasta and rice as well for tunnels and divits, worked out well but long curing time, but way cheaper then filling cavities with expensive crushed coral or shells and the tunnels u get from the pasta are incredible, I also collect shells around our beach for my plugs for my cuttings.)
60lbs of crushed coral
60lbs of live sand
29lbs of garf grung
3lbs of argonite dust

Lighting
2 400w MH 10,000k - 8 hours
1 250w MH 20,000k - 12 hours
2 96w PC 6,700k - 12 hours
2 96w PC actinic 03 - 16 hours
2 led luner strips - 4 hours
Later will change for better color but right now lighting for grow more then show

Refugium
I have a 40 gal refuge
Its all garden now, I ran a skimmer 24/7 in the beginning but my tank has so many animal filters now that the skimmer never even gets dirty...although still sitting in the sump if things get bad it hasn't ran in 3 months.

The cleaning staff
400+ snails and crabs, I bought 400 but they breed like crazey so I have way more then 400.
Snails - Nass., Turbo Nass., Astrea, Nerite, Turban, Margarita, cerith, Mex. Turbo, queen conch, sand sifting
Crabs - blue legged, scarlet, corsica, mithrax
Star fish - 6 green brittles, 4 black brittles, 4 serpants, 6 sand sifters
4 sand sifting cucumbers
20 peppermint shrimp
2 gold banded coral shrimp - mated pair
1 harliquin shrimp - btw kicks ass at eating the evil coral eating star fish, I used to have 10 bad starfish or so on the glass at any given time...I rarely see them at all now....It does eat the sand sifters though but I am trying to breed them in a new tank.
1 blood red fire shrimp
Clams - 2 1st grade blue maxima, 1 gold maxima, 1 squamosa, 1 derasa, 12 cleaner clams in refug....these almost went to my kitchen into a boiling pot of water look like steamer clams....yummy!!!!

Corals - hard to count...would say 80-90 in the tank...all are or were frags.
will get my stuff together and get some pics to share.

Anenomies - 1 long tenticle greenish/white and one long tenticle purple...super bright...cool Anenomie

Fish
1 male and 2 female lyretail anthias
1 female leapard wrasse...looking for a little male
3 fridmani pseudochromis
3 orange spotted watchman gobies
3 pearly jawfish
2 bicolor blennies
2 rainfordi gobies
2 marron clowns
5 blue/green chromis
almost done here thinking a pair of angels or tangs to finish maybe both depending on how things go as these little fish grow to adult hood.


I currently feed frozen cubes 2 times a day and several pinches of flakes all day long, as for I work from home.

Twice a day I add 4 cubes of mysis shrimp, 2 cubes of enriched brine w/spirolina, 2 cubes of daphnia, 1 cube of cytopleeze and 1 cube of rotifers

I also squirt phytoplanton in once every other day and squirt the cytopleeze stuff in the other days

as well as add flake food 4 to 5 times a day

am I over feeding?, which I think I do.....but will it hurt me if it doesn't mess up my water quality?

I test properly in all chemicals always with the current supplement regiment and water change scheduel that I have...please let me know. my cleaners also appreciate the grub and I neve have any messes in my sand?

Bill

 

WOW great tank summary you should link this in your signature.

Ya your over feeding but as you say you don't seem to have any adverse effects. A lot of you fish are smaller grazer type. so how you are feeding is really good but maybe cut down on the amounts, if your worried

J

 

sweet, so as long as parameters are good, then no biggy? I have scaled back a little...but just can't let my kids starve.

I see you are just a few hours north of me.. You ever river raft the chilawack? class 4's and 4+'s awesome river..about 40 miles east of u. did it for the first time this last June, our group is gonna make it yearly event now we had so much fun. If you do it...make sure you do the right part... there is a section I believe its 17 kilometers (might be off) of 4/4+ solid all the way...crazey!!

Thanks,
Bill

 

yo Jason 1 more question... how do I link that summary to my signature..tried to copy and paste and the info has to many characters..is there another way?

 

Just add this {URL="http://www.3reef.com/forums/tropical-fish/feeding-question-38316.html#post350709"]My Tank[/URL}

But change the { } to these[ ]

J

 

ok tried that here it goes....

 

hmmm, 0 sig, do i need new post?

 

your signature only displays once per page. Scole to the top and you will see it worked

 

ah i see, u r the man!!!!

Thanks, Bro