What time is chow time: How often do you feed your fish?

[Peace River]

What time is chow time: How often do you feed your fish?

Some reef keepers feed their fish a lot and others feed sparingly. Sometimes the fish are feed often and other times the fish are feed less often. It has been said that fish are always grazing in the ocean and it has also been said that fish can go several days or more without food. In some cases the fish are intentionally fed heavily so that the extra food and fish waste will become food for the corals in the tank. Of course, filtration requirements need to be factored into this approach. So what time is chow time for your fish? How often do you add fish food to your tank? Please share your thoughts about fish feeding frequency in the comments.

Photo by @Easyreefs

 

[G Santana]

5pm daily, then I eat.
My tangs get a 1/4 sheet of nori in the am and then everyone eats at 5.

 

[vetteguy53081]

My tank gets 4 feedings via AFS auto feeder and one light frozen feeding late morning and big frozen feeding late evening

 

[c_healy]

3-4 times a day for my fish.

 

[JCM]

Pretty much anytime I walk over to look at the tank, I drop some pellets in. Sometimes it's 3 times a day, sometimes 8. I also try to feed frozen twice a day. No set times

 

[Kathy Floyd]

I feed Nori every other day and feed frozen every morning.

 

[evo187]

1/2 cube frozen in the evening and nori twice a week. 50gal AIO with 4 fish.

 

[rgulrich]

On the hour every hour across a 13hr daylight period. Use an Apex-controlled Plank feeder with a dry food mix. Run it for 35 seconds each period. Everyone seems healthy, happy, and well fed.
Cheers,
Ray

 

[o2manyfish]

Dry Foods - A combination of various makers pellets in different sizes, mixed with different types of flake foods, as well as coral powdered foods gets a tablespoon 3-8x a day.

Every 2 days we feed frozen which is about 40 cubes, and a 4x4 chunk of mysis.

Dave B

 

[JCM]

Dry Foods - A combination of various makers pellets in different sizes, mixed with different types of flake foods, as well as coral powdered foods gets a tablespoon 3-8x a day.

Every 2 days we feed frozen which is about 40 cubes, and a 4x4 chunk of mysis.

Dave B

40 cubes?! Feeding the great barrier reef over there? Your fish must love you

 

[Ken Roane]

What time is chow time: How often do you feed your fish?

Some reef keepers feed their fish a lot and others feed sparingly. Sometimes the fish are feed often and other times the fish are feed less often. It has been said that fish are always grazing in the ocean and it has also been said that fish can go several days or more without food. In some cases the fish are intentionally fed heavily so that the extra food and fish waste will become food for the corals in the tank. Of course, filtration requirements need to be factored into this approach. So what time is chow time for your fish? How often do you add fish food to your tank? Please share your thoughts about fish feeding frequency in the comments.

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Photo by @Easyreefs

I have 4 tanks and they all get fed at 6:00 dinner time before I eat. I would feel guilty if I ate first.

 

[bushdoc]

I leave for work at 6:30 daily and it’s dark on my house reef, so I feed them after 5 when I come back from work. I don’t trust automatic feeder to use it daily. My fish look healthy though and 4 of them is 8-10 y/o, so I must’ve been doing something right.

 

[o2manyfish]

40 cubes?! Feeding the great barrier reef over there? Your fish must love you

Over 130 fish -- Mostly Smalls



Dave B

 

[Guy317]

Auto feed 2 times a day and when I get home from work a little frozen

 

[Lps_lover12]

My auto feeder drops pellets in at 2 and 8 and I feed frozen at 6pm daily

 

[homer1475]

Autofeeder in the am around 8 while lights are ramping up and everyone isn't awake yet(lets the more skittish fish eat). The autofeeder again at noon. Then I feed frozen around 5pm, and 90ml of live phyto.

In my autofeeder I use NLS pellets, TDO chromoboost, and NLS algae max. For frozen I feed a cube of PE calanus, a small chunk of LRS, and a small chunk of PE mysis.

I do not directly feed anything, but rather broadcast feed the entire tank(LARS reefing at its best).

 

[CoralB]

Twice a day , nori three times a week

 

[Dbichler]

I feed a half sheet of red or green nori daily. Nls algae max pellets and ocean nutrition reef flakes one day then diy frozen mix the next day. Sometimes extra pellets or flakes if I’m bored watching the tank.

 

[Reef2317]

Three feeds a day for two clowns and a cuc, a very efficient nitrogen cycling process means im battling to increase nitrates.

 

[MarsReefer]

Was feeding 3 times a day, but cut it down to 2 while I am fighting hair algae. Pellets on an autofeeder mid day and then frozen Reef Frenzy at night around 8.