Feeding suggestions

[craigj]

In my cycled 72g FOWLS aquarium I plan on putting a small clown trigger, a medium-sized dogface puffer, and a small snowflake eel. With all this aggression in the tank, I have some questions about feeding. My questions are:
What should I feed them?
How often should I feed them?
How much at a time should I feed them?
I've never really gotten any advice about how much you should feed a fish at a time. I would really appreciate your help. Thanks

 

[reefj13]

The fish will need to eat about once a day until they are larger. Then will then be able to eat once every other day. As for the type of food you should stay with frozed and freeze dried foods. Some good ones are krill, plankton, and silversides. Live feeders are horrible nutrionally, sickly, and are not fed by the pet stores(I work at one, trust me) they also contain no s.w. protiens. Live fish also seem to make triggers more agressive and look towards other fish as food.

 

[pufferlover]

Craig; Reef has given you a good answer that I can only add to as follows. When feeding Puffers don't let them fool you they act starved and will eat till they sink to the bottom to heavy to move for a while. I feed my fish once a day and the Puffers till the tummy begins to bulge a bit. My Snowflakes (2 in different tanks) are quite different, the big one eats every time I feed, the small one skips a day or lately 3 between meals. The big one goes nuts when he smells the food coming and runs all around the tank till it gets fed. Triggers are like Puffers they will gorge themselves if given a chance. The old rule what they can eat in 3 to 5 minutes is a good rule or until they loose interest (or as said begin to bulge).