I have never been able to get a handle on feeding. In my old 56 gallon I battled nitrates until i cut way back on feeding. Now I'm wondering if I'm feeding too little.
I presently have the following in my 110 with 20 gallon sump with 100lbs of rock:
1 Hippo Tang 2 inch
3 Clowns 2-3 inch
1 Banghai Cardinal 3 inch
1 Watchman Goby 2-3 inch
1 Dottyback 3 inch
1 Cherub Dwarf Angel
Various shrimp and coral.
I'm feeding the equivalent of 1/2 cube of frozen food/per day in one feeding. I use the San Francisco multi pack and combine mysis, squid, brine shrimp, their "emerald entree" and once or twice a week I feed dry or frozen cyclopese.
I'm wary of overfeeding because of past nitrate issues but I notice my new hippo Tang does not seem to be gaining weight and the clowns have a very slight line visible down their side but the other fish look normal.
Any ideas would be welcome and appreciated.
Mike
I am no expert but I tend to beleive that is too little. I feed one frozen cube of mysis shrimp a day as well as an additional feeding of Fauna Marin pellets at night. I have two clowns, a pajama cardinal, coral beauty, and four different kinds of damsels in a 65 gallon tank. Most fish are small but I anticipate having to part with some fish as they grow.
take 1 cube and a meat mallet crush it all up. Then add. Do this again at night. Along with the other feedings.
2 small feeding is better than 1 big, especially for batteling nitrates.
Quote from: White Lightning on June 16, 2009, 02:17:49 PM
I am no expert but I tend to beleive that is too little. I feed one frozen cube of mysis shrimp a day as well as an additional feeding of Fauna Marin pellets at night. I have two clowns, a pajama cardinal, coral beauty, and four different kinds of damsels in a 65 gallon tank. Most fish are small but I anticipate having to part with some fish as they grow.
I thought I might be underfeeding but have been so afraid of running into nitrate problems I didn't want to overdo it.
Quote from: Vince. on June 16, 2009, 03:57:14 PM
take 1 cube and a meat mallet crush it all up. Then add. Do this again at night. Along with the other feedings.
2 small feeding is better than 1 big, especially for battling nitrates.
I'm going to switch to 1/2 a cube in the morning and 1/2 in the evening along with the cyclopese.
Thanks guys, I just wanted someone to blame when I run into overfeeding problems down the road ;D
no prob, lol.
That's alright you can put it on me. ;D
Do you feed any algae sheets or other algae foods? The tang might get bigger on these? I have the Formula 2 algae pellets and everything seems to eat them.
Quote from: QueensU on June 20, 2009, 12:02:09 PM
Do you feed any algae sheets or other algae foods? The tang might get bigger on these? I have the Formula 2 algae pellets and everything seems to eat them.
This particular Tang does not seem to like vegetables. Won't eat algae or seaweed sheets but will eat the "emarald entree" frozen food.