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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EASTERN INDIGO" data-source="post: 10023228" data-attributes="member: 156900"><p>ALMOST GUARANTEED:  TOO MUCH VARIETY AND WAY TOO MUCH FOOD.  You have to understand that the mostly garbage packaged foods have WAY more moisture than food.  Real food is much denser, so a little goes a long way.  I have six tanks, reef and FOWLR, 55 to 350, not running any phosphban or carbon, and have been using DIY food exclusively for over a year.  First of all, I use only scallops, shrimp, squid and cooked mussel meat.  Then I put it  in a NINJA blender frozen and put it on low and hold the button for only a few seconds so I do not get micro chips of food.  Then I rinse the  entire thing with rodi water in a strainer with holes big enough to let the micro chips drain out.  Then I feed it very sparingly twice a day.  NO FISH DEATHS IN OVER A YEAR.  ABSOLUTELY ZERO ALGAE OF ANY KIND.  50% WATER CHANGES ONCE A MONTH OR UP TO SIX WEEKS.  No skimmer either.  To give you an example, my 150 system with 8 two year old yellow foxfaces and one 4 or 5 inch clown trigger gets15 to 20 (and usually only 15) grams of food at each feeding.  My reef tank with only one foxface a small yellow goby, gets 6mg twice a day.  My 350 with an 8 inch rabbit fish, 7 inch FAT wrasse, 10 inch panther grouper,  6 inch hogfish, 5 inch bluespot grouper, 4 inch Picasso trigger and 6 inch Sailfin gets 20g 2xd. That's my two cents.   I recommend you get a BRS carbon/phosban reactor and starve the tank until the algae disappears.  Put in a few more omnivore fish, following strict pre-introduction quarantine and medication, and you should be ok.  OH, AND WASHING AND STRAINING THE FOOD WITH TANK WATER OR RODI IS A B S O L O O O O T L Y   ESSENTIAL.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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