How often should I be feeding?

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  1. Kevin3884

    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    I am torn on how much I should be feeding my fish..I have 3 Chromis, 2 Clowns, 1 Butterfly, 1 Scooter Blenny, 1 Lg Watchman Goby, 1 Clown Goby, 2 Fire fish, 1 Cleaner Wrasse, 1 six line wrasse, 1 black and white damsel, 1 lg Pajama Cardinal...how often do you suggest and how much do you suggest feeding them? I use I mixture of flakes, brine shrimp, and pellets...i feed them one or the other twice a day...i feel like it may be too much, but they always seem to eat whatever i put in the tank..all opinions welcome and then i'll throw them all together and come up with a good equation..lol
     
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  3. the fisherman

    the fisherman Vlamingii Tang

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    that's a hard question but I feed once every other day. what kind of protein skimmer are you using?
     
  4. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    I Personally feed frozen every other day and I alternate that will algae sheets for my tangs. To add to that though, I run 2 oversized skimmers and phosban to combat any left behind phosphates
     
  5. mikejrice

    mikejrice 3reef Affiliate

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    Every other day at the very most. Stretch it to three days once in awhile. Less is more when it comes to feeding.
     
  6. Kevin3884

    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    Aqua C Remora with pre skimmer..the biggest one..and I have a HOB filter just for kicks.
     
  7. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    those are nice skimmers for smaller tanks but that seems like a really heavy load for that skimmer
     
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  9. Kevin3884

    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    the Remora seems to do the job for sure takes some nasty crap out of the water...never have any water quality issues...crystal clear..params stay great...i also have quite the clean-up crew along with well over 200lbs live rock...also run a UV steralizer
     
  10. A4_Andre

    A4_Andre Astrea Snail

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    The remora does the job with my 75g
     
  11. Froc3

    Froc3 Fire Goby

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    Depends what fish you have. I don't recognize any fish on that list that I would be worried about feeding more than once every 2 days... maybe the butterfly, but I'm not too knowledgeable on those guys.
     
  12. unclejed

    unclejed Whip-Lash Squid

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    It's funny, I have always fed my fish every day. I have done this for over 20 years with hardly no problems with it. Since I started the 14 gal. Biocube, I have found this can lead to cyano so I am more aware of the quantity I put in but still feed every day.