I have a thousand FISH in my Million gallon tank...

[toddpolish]

well not really but... now that you're here...

[hr]
Thought I'd start an informative thread where you could
(1) list the TYPE of FISH you have
(2) HOW OFTEN you feed that fish and
(3) WHAT you feed it

try not to get off topic. I'm sure this will help many newbies out there and possibly help others modify their fish diet.

[hr]
A few days ago, I just bought a ---
Tomato Clown -
(so far) I Feed him once a day / alternate: pellet food and frozen brine shrimp.

 

[carrie1429]

1) Type of fish I currently have in my 100 gal: Pair of false perc clowns, long nosed butterfly, bi-color angelfish, blue damsel. I plan on getting a purple tang soon.
2) I usually feed once a day to every other day.
3) Mostly I feed pellet foods or flake food soaked in garlic extract. Then on occasions I'll feed live bloodworms and live brine. And then I will feed dried seaweed.

 

[michaelstern]

120 gallons
Powder Blue tang, Passer angel, Lunare Wrasse, Tomato Clown, Crabs.
I feed nori soaked with garlic in the am
I feed enriched frozen brine shrimp soaked with garlic in the pm
They love it.

 

[kreach]

All my fish are listed in my signature.
They get fed once a day, in the evening, with a mixture of brine and mysis soaked in a couple drops of garlic extract, a couple drops of vitamin C and a small splash of Zoe. I also keep a clip in the tank with some dried seaweed in it for the tang.

 

[cb]

My fish are also listed in my signature.
I feed flake food every day in the morning and I also spot feed my Condy and the CC Starfish twice a week with frozen Krill right now as my lfs was out of silversides. Being fairly new to saltwater I would like to know the benefit of soaking food in garlic extract and is it the kind you buy at the health food store?

 

[kreach]

I use Kent's Garlic Extreme... it's made for use in aquariums and is pure garlic extract. The stuff you get in a health store might have oils or other additives that aren’t good for your tank.
Garlic helps fish fend off parasites and it also can help to get a finicky fish to eat.

 

[will]

125g : yellow tang, red sea sailfin tang, longnose butterfly, blue hippo tang, firefish, bar goby, 5 green chromis
flakes w/ garlic xtract: formula 1, formula 2, prime reef, seaweed selects
frozen: brine shrimp, mysid shrimp, ocean plankton
fed 2-3 times a day

 

[sterling]

Fish: flame angel, sailfin tang, yellow tail damsels, jewel damsel, orchid dottyback, melanarous wrasse, tassle filefish, maroon clown.
fed a.m. mysis or emerald entree or enriched brine
p.m. flake food
seaweed selects two or three times a week.

 

[stacyt]

To many tanks, and fish to list. The feeding is pretty much the same for all the tanks though. I feed pellet or flake every morning. Every evening I feed frozen foods, and I soak every other day in garlic/zoe. The aggressives get fed every other day a variety of krill, shrimp, silver sides, and fish fillets.

 

[cincyreefer]

Emperor Angel, Queen Angel, Flame Hawk, Porcupine Puffer, Starry Puffer, and Scribbled Angel.
I feed Angel Formula, Saltwater Variety Pack, Formula 1, Formula 2, and Frozen Krill, soaked in Vita Chem. I also make sure to always keep a live sponge in the tank for the Angels to nip at.

 

[beaslbob]

fish and tanks in signature
feed flake food.
twice a day.

 

[cb]

kreach---- Thanks for the info I will have to try that. Do you just add a few drops to the amount of flake your feeding?

 

[kreach]

Originally posted by CB
kreach---- Thanks for the info I will have to try that. Do you just add a few drops to the amount of flake your feeding?
I don't feed flake. I use frozen brine or mysis shrimp to feed my fish. But yes, just 1-2 drops on the food is plenty. Overdosing can cause problems for your tank.
If you get Kent's Garlic Extreme you'll understand why you only need a little of it. You can smell the garlic through the bottle... it's STRONG!

 

[hunterdaddy]

I have a gold banded maroon clown, a lawnmower blenny, sixline wrasse, green chromis and a coral beauty.
I feed them frozen brine and some mix of frozen stuff with sponge and shrimp and other things. They all like it but it is for the angel.
I feed once a day to every other day.

 

[acez28]

my fish are in my sig
they are fed once a day.....alternates between, brine, krill, clams, plankton.....plus whats listed below
the puffer gets 2 small krills a day
the sailfin and skunk gets dried seaweed everyday
my choco gets 2 krills about every 2-3 days
the tanks gets a does of phtyoplankton every other day
the 2 condys get 1 krill every other day. Except one is where i cant reach it so he hasnt been feed in a while.
the hermits get what doesnt get ate.
The CBS gets hermits and a krill every coupla days. ::

 

[killafins]

All fish are labeled in signature.
In A.M. I add some flakes. During after noon I add some pieces of prawn for my toby and some brine shrimp for my seahorses( I also feed the poinies a small portion of brine shrimp in AM)... In PM, I go all out frozen. Two or three times a week I add clam to the marine cruisine i add and two to three times a week I feed my eel prawn.
Every other day I changed vegies in the tank: kale, brocollie, dried seaweed. all soaked in garlic.

 

[sinner's girl]

one clown and two damsels in the 55gl, one damsel in the 75gl
they get feed brine shrimp and blood worms, the big damsel in the 75gl will get flakes if we ever have them.
about one bag of blood worms or one cube of brine b/w the two tanks (most goes to big damsels...)
I try to feed once daily, however, i just started grad school and i'm working...so some nights they don't get feed. and I normaly don't feed at least one day a week (sundays if i've feed everyother day). oh, and if i feed early and the clown begs for food i will give her a little bit more.
there is no set time anymore for when they get fed (i used to get home same time everyday).
the stars get whatever the fish don't catch and shrimp from wal-mart when I have the time (used to be once a week...but it's been awhile since they've gotten shrimp).
the shrimp (camel back) used to eat shrimp too...

 

[wyldgunz]

Ive got a African blue hippo tang and a Perc clown fish along with many corals and my cleaning crew. I normaly feed them a small ammount of food in the morning when the atinics kick in then around 3 pm i give them a healthy helping of frozen foods along with a shot of phytoplanton for the filter feeders then i spot feed the anenome with some frozen brine shrimp in a turkey baster. Later in the day around 7-8 pm before the lights go out i add in small helping of flake food to top off the tummies of the fish .
I also impiment some algae sheets in for the tang and the cleaning crew from time to time and i add in garlic drops to promote healthy fish. Heres a good shot of my African hippo

 

[the claw]

Other than being lazy and unorganized....
I stop by the LFS about twice a year and spend zillions of dollars on all of their frozen entrees. TV dinners in a capsule right?
THere is brine shrimp from this company and some from that one, then there is Emerald entree, and marine Cusiune, and angel delight. THen nori for the vegetarians. Oh ya, krill, and mysid shrimp as well. Then once or twice a day I pop one of those babies into the tank. If I have extra time I soak it in zoe, or garlic. If my tang looks me with those sad eyes, he can have some romaine. Then on occasion, some freshly hatched baby brine shrimp is on the menu. Almost everyday a dose of plankton is delivered.
The 150 includes: Purple Tang, Whitecheek Tang, Yellow Tang, Purple Firefish, Strawberry Psuedochromis, Flame angel, and one sleeper gobie. (one butterfly fish who is currently eating aiptasia out of my 55)
55 includes: Royal Gramma, Chalk Sea bass, Psuedochromis Arab...(mean bugger), Coral Beauty and one baby Naso Tang. Yes tang police, he is slated for a larger home.

 

[naturelover]

pair of Falco, pair of Maroon, 1 Yellow tang, 3 chromis, and a Grouper in 75 gal reef.
1 Damsel and a Puffer in 55gal.
percula pair in 48 gal.
1 goby and a pair of bangai in 10gal.
I feed Formula one once a day.