lfs sais i was feeding to much?

bill109

bill109

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ok well i fed my fish everyday at 8 and now i have algea problems so i added some more snails and hermits. he said to feed them 2-3 times a wek but im gonna start feeding them once everyday
i have no ammonia
trites i believe are at a minimum
ph 8.3
he thought tht making them scavebge off the rock will clean up my tank as well as my hermits. :help:
 
gen1dustin

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Most people feed their fish 2-3 times a day. Algae problems can be a lot of things. Though yes overfeeding can cause it, but that would just mean feed less food each time. You don't want left over food. You may wanna get a phosphate test kit, see what it is. A lot of people use phosphate remover to help with algae problems. Also a nice cleaner crew will help with algae. What kinds of algae are you having problems with? Hair algae you can pull it off rocks by hand to help out. Bubble algae can be siphoned out & emerald crabs will eat it. Algae on the glass can of course be scraped off.
Hope this helps.
 
bill109

bill109

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Originally Posted by Gen1Dustin
Most people feed their fish 2-3 times a day. Algae problems can be a lot of things. Though yes overfeeding can cause it, but that would just mean feed less food each time. You don't want left over food. You may wanna get a phosphate test kit, see what it is. A lot of people use phosphate remover to help with algae problems. Also a nice cleaner crew will help with algae. What kinds of algae are you having problems with? Hair algae you can pull it off rocks by hand to help out. Bubble algae can be siphoned out & emerald crabs will eat it. Algae on the glass can of course be scraped off.
Hope this helps.
sorta
i started my tank with tap and have been doinf wc and top off with ro so its been up for 3 months
you name it i have it.. brown green red.
i added phosgaurd to my charcoal so now i have both.
he sid tht it will say no phosphate will show when you really have a lot.. wier but true supposbly.
i bought some more snaild/hermits. i got 8 for th price of 2 (i love tht guy he give me so much price half and free stuff lol)
so i guess making them scaenge is the best so they eat algea. i know the tang will but idk about the watchman or the clown wich i dont think they will so i might add bi color blenny.
dont be wrried i am upgrading soon like with i the next month.
 
seannmelly

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People have all sorts of feeding schedules. Sometimes if you feed too much, you will have red slime algae. I only feed my fish probably every other day at the best, sometimes they go 2-3 days without eating. But in all honesty, the tangs can fend for themselves pretty easily with all the algae in the tank and with being fed sometimes up to 2 algae sheets a day. When they get fed, they get fed very well! The watchman and the clown will all be fine, fish can go without food for longer then you think. By all means do not starve your fish, but up to 3 days w/o food they will be fine. But when you do feed them, giving them more of a variety is better then feeding them the same thing all the time.
 
seannmelly

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Originally Posted by ROYAL GANG
some soab at a lfs told my brother not to feed his fish for about 2-3 weeks, that's bull**** :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Well yea 2-3 weeks is a load. A couple days won't hurt thought...
 
gen1dustin

gen1dustin

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True a couple of days won't hurt not much of a point to letting most fish do like that though.
You are right sometimes the phosphates won't show up on tests because the algae is using so much so quickly. Do you have a cleaner crew? A nice big cleaner crew does wonders on algae. They will also get any uneaten food.
 
bill109

bill109

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Originally Posted by Rslinger
You said you are using carbin well that stuff releases phos.
i did i ment the phosgaurd and charcoal that is already in the filter. and for the cleanup crew i have
cleaner shrimp
peppermint shrimp
10 hermits (can u ever put to many of those guys in your tank?)
5 snails
 
bsd230

bsd230

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I feed a piece of seaweed 3x3in square, in the morning and a cube of shrimp or reef plankton at night. It seems to keep everyone happy and I don't have a problem with algae or nitrates. 105g with a naso tang, sailfin tang, foxface rabbitfish, 2 skunk clowns, chromis, bangai cardinal, about 25 corals, 1 sebae anenome, 50 crabs of various types, 50 snails, 2 pep shrimp, 1 cleaner, 1 coral banded shrimp, 2 bubble tip stars, 1 sand sifting star,1 fromia star, 1 black sea cucumber, and probably a few things I am forgetting so much stuff it hard to keep track.
 
gen1dustin

gen1dustin

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Originally Posted by Rslinger
You said you are using carbin well that stuff releases phos.
Not a lot of it though & some don't at all.
 
stanlalee

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how often you feed totally depends on the fish you are keeping. Anthias, Tangs, clown gobies ect cant get by with every other day or three times a week feeding. they need to be fed preferably at least twice a day otherwise you either make them succeptable to disease, poor nutrition or starvation. For example with tangs it goes in one end and right out the other without a whole lot of what they eat being digested. they are always looking to eat. Lot of gobies eat a small amount at a time and supposedly metabolize fast so they do best with multiple feedings. Now clowns, most aggressive fish, bassetts ect can go a day or two between feedings easily.
 
bill109

bill109

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Originally Posted by Stanlalee
how often you feed totally depends on the fish you are keeping. Anthias, Tangs, clown gobies ect cant get by with every other day or three times a week feeding. they need to be fed preferably at least twice a day otherwise you either make them succeptable to disease, poor nutrition or starvation. For example with tangs it goes in one end and right out the other without a whole lot of what they eat being digested. they are always looking to eat. Lot of gobies eat a small amount at a time and supposedly metabolize fast so they do best with multiple feedings. Now clowns, most aggressive fish, bassetts ect can go a day or two between feedings easily.
dont make sense.. a tang is a omnivore right/?
this means they eat both algea,seaweed or shrimp or something els.
i have algea in my tank he can scavenage aolund on the rock everyother day for food while i feed him everyother day so the day they arent being fed they can scavenge off he rocl keeping your rock clean
if it is tht big of a deal i will target feed my corals 2x a week when te fish arent being fed
 
stanlalee

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Originally Posted by bill109
dont make sense.. a tang is a omnivore right/?
this means they eat both algea,seaweed or shrimp or something els.
i have algea in my tank he can scavenage aolund on the rock everyother day for food while i feed him everyother day so the day they arent being fed they can scavenge off he rocl keeping your rock clean
if it is tht big of a deal i will target feed my corals 2x a week when te fish arent being fed

if a tank is well kept and has a clean up grew there wont be enough algae for a tang to scavange and remain healthy. they are omnivores but their primary diet naturally is algae. they find an area with algae on the outskirts of a reef (where algae would be. not much algae on within the reef) and eat it clean of algae then move and find another area where they can do the same. they should have an algae sheet clipped daily. Mine goes thru a 1x3" strip as quick as I can put it in. their digestive tract is inefficient, so even if they are eating alot they are not keeping it. Tang dung from algae looks just like algae because most of it hasn't been utilized. I'm not so much worried that they cant survive without multiple daily feedings and algae sheets as I'm worried about making them succeptable to HILLE, ich and lack of vitamin intake from eating infrequently. On the other hand if yours do fine with infrequent feeding and its worked for any real lenth of time (healthy and disease free for over a year and counting) then there is no need to change. I'm just offering typical suggestions.
 
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