feeding

[Davidkirschenbaum]

I think I am over feeding but I can't figure it out.
I have the following fish
naso tang 3 inches
hippo tang 4 inches
blue face
tomota clown small
pink anthais 4 inches
henicous small
sailfin small
hawk fish small
hog fish 3 inches

I feed a cube of brine shrimp and some pellets in the morning and 1 cube of formula 1 and 1 cube of formula 2 at night. Some nights I add a couple of larger shrimp. I was cleaning the tank today and I found about 9 shrimp floating around. I also put a meduim size piece of seaweed on a clip.
My levels are fine but I just seems like there is to much left over but it also seems for so many fish I need to give them a lot of food.
David

 

[marrone]

Cut out feeding the brine shrimp and feed formula I or II instead or get a flake food and add some of that. If your going to feed the larger shrimp I would break them into smaller pieces and only feed what you see the fish eat. So if they once eat 2 pieces then don't feed anymore. It's better to have the fish hungry then to over feed.

Since you have a bunch of tangs and a angel you may need to put in an additional piece of Nori as they're big algae eater.

 

[Davidkirschenbaum]

It seems the anthais really oves the brine shrimp and doesn't eat much of the other food.
David

 

[marrone]

Brine Shrimp is empty calorie and isn't a good diet for the fish. You need to get the fish to eat some of the other food. Brine is good to get the fish to start to eat but the fish couldn't live off of it.

 

[Davidkirschenbaum]

what should the anthais eat formula 1 or 2 ?
I just move the clown to the big quaratine tank. Lets see how he does.
David

 

[marrone]

Yes eventually you want it to eat either of the Formula foods or the pellets. Try to ween it off the brine and on to the Formula food.

 

[jackson6745]

If you see 9 uneaten shrimp floating around it's a good chance you're overfeeding I agree with marrone on the formula flake and pellet food.