What do you feed them? I'm little apprehensive about feeding them twice a day only because of the amount of uneaten food that could build up..

ReefMan a mix of reef roids, reef frenzy, and benereef. I feed small amounts and it seems to have no impact on my nutrient levels I don’t feed based on recommend levels. I’m slowly increasing the amounts though. I’ve been testing my phosphates twice a day before feeding in the morning and afternoon after feedings.

@@dgarcia556 give me your more detail feeding bro 🙏🏻

I had the ISO too low on the camera 😔. I'm glad you liked the content though!!

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Day or nightime better feeding?

I haven't heard of Benereef food, interesting! I have a theory that some corals like some foods better than others - particle size, composition, etc. Maybe we should be feeding a mix?

Well, I have Reef Chili, ReefRoids, Coral Dust, Benereef, and NLS Nutri/Cell encapsulated - I used to make up what I called a “slurry” of small quantities of each and feed it to the tank twice a week but it doesn’t take long for excess nutrients to become a problem even though I only feed my fish once per day. So I tried each one separately and got the most obvious feeding response from the Benereef, so carried on with that, twice per week. But perhaps I should rotate through the others daily with 1/8 of a teaspoon to start with, and see what happens....🤔

I don't rinse my frozen food - but I know a lot of people do rinse stuff like frozen mysis.

@@ReefMan same here I just chuck a cube of frozen food in and watch the fish destroy it in seconds

That would be interesting to study. We could reach out to the study authors to ask if they considered it - usually the scientists that publish these papers are really happy to answer questions like that. They love when people are excited about their work (as we all do)! The contact info is usually listed in the link to the paper.

@@ReefMan And it's the second study you mentioned that includes natural sea water as a source of nutrition. I have always heard that most of whatever you bring home in the sea water you collect dies quickly. When I lived by the sea I used to collect water twice per week at night because I thought I would be getting more plankton.

Yea I think a lot of aquariums do nightly flushes with seawater. I have a paper coming up that looks at the difference between what's in the water in the day versus at night - you're right - there is more stuff at night. I'd be a little worried about pollution close to the shore collecting my own water.

@@ReefMan A few months ago while travelling, I was watching my tank through a webcam and I saw my cardinals, who are notorious picky eaters, feeding on something at night: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pspkiciors3XpJ8.html

Yep, I'm @inktomi on there as ReefMan was taken long ago.