I have read that you should feed anywhere from once every other day to couple of times a day. Which is best. I feed every 12 hrs and my fish are pigs when I walk up to the tank they greet me and beg for food, fun to watch but don't want to overfeed. My nitrates run in the 20's and the clean up crew seems to do a great job. Food that makes it to the bottom is gone and bottom clean in the am.
Feeding Question
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Feeding depend on what kind of fish you have.
Fish will eat and eat if you feed them. The more they eat the more they will poo. Watch what you feed them. Make sure you justy feed just enough. no food should be in the tank after 5 minute. If you got food left them you are over feeding
Fish will eat and eat if you feed them. The more they eat the more they will poo. Watch what you feed them. Make sure you justy feed just enough. no food should be in the tank after 5 minute. If you got food left them you are over feeding
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Personally I think 5 minutes is too much 
. I like for all the food to be gone in 20 seconds, but I feed them three times a day.
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More important, IMHO is WHAT you are feeding more then how much... I can eat twinkies every 12 hours but if that is all I eat, I am not going to be healthy. I feed my fish 2X a day if I remember but atleast once a day.
Your NO3 is a bit high there at 20 so you might want to cut back the food and get that a bit under control... Then again you do have a FOWLR so it might not hurt anything.
Your NO3 is a bit high there at 20 so you might want to cut back the food and get that a bit under control... Then again you do have a FOWLR so it might not hurt anything.
I feed my Maroon Clownfish once a day with the Saltwater Multi-Pac and spread it out over several minutes. I just let a little in the water at a time and wait til she finishes before I add more. That way even if she loses interest there is only a couple of small pieces in the water and I've gotten my flow pretty good so it rarely ends up on the bottom.
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mmmmmmmmmmm twinkies
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I wish someone would dare me to eat twinkies every 12 hours for as long as I'd do it and pay for that dare.
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This question can only really be addressed when compared to your nutirentn export- ie- skimmer, chemical media, etc. You can feed hard if you skim hard.
Agree with Panda on this one. Feeding is greatly based on what you have and how well your DOC export is. If you have a big fuge, big skimmer and run carbon/GFO/Purigen, you can pretty much nuke the tank in food and it will just keep on rolling.
It is responsible to tell most people not to overfeed as a general rule, but in a lot of our tanks overfeeding will likely never be a problem and can be quite beneficial to the fuge.
It is responsible to tell most people not to overfeed as a general rule, but in a lot of our tanks overfeeding will likely never be a problem and can be quite beneficial to the fuge.
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I agree- I shouldve worded it like this.
