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Originally Posted by JeffDubya  Yes!!!
This was the first thing an experienced aquarist told me when I started back into the hobby. Heck, I have a species ID guide that SPECIFICALLY says to feed the fish 2-3 times PER DAY! And I wondered why my parameters were all out of whack?
I bet far more fish have been killed by overfeeding than underfeeding. No doubt about it. |
I call that "killed by insufficient water changes", not killed by overfeeding. You can't overfeed most reef creatures. Actually, there's a presentation by Dr. Ron Shimek on
imac.org (or maybe reefvideos.com) where he discusses collected data on how much food is actually consumed by the creatures living within an aquarium-sized 3'x3' section of a wild reef in 1 day... the figures were astounding.
I feed my 75g (which is practically empty compared to most) at LEAST 2-3 times per day -- plus my carpet anemone (
Stichodactyla haddoni) gets 2 heaping tablespoons of finely chopped fish every night and my two sun coral colonies (
Tubastrea falkneri and
T. micrantha) each get a healthy dusting of cyclopeeze or similar type of food... BUT... I also do a 30-35% water change (25g) every week and have two 10"
RDSB buckets and a 6"
DSB refugium to keep up with and match that feeding schedule.
