How often should you feed the Fish

How often should I add Seaweed for the grazer fish I have a Coral Beauty
Angel. Foxface and a Powder blue tang?
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
ink.net...
yep, it depends on the fish, but for most fish, once
a day is standard. They will also graze on live food
in the reef through the day.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


George Patterson wrote on 2/23/2007 11:11 PM:
Peter Pan wrote:
The header says it all; Should it be once a day; everyother day? How
often
should you feed the fish?

To some extent, it depends on the fish. Carnivores can handle being fed
erratically, but every two days is a good schedule. Larger (upwards of
3") omnivores can easily handle being fed once a day. Morning is best,
since that gives them all day to "graze" on the leftovers. Small fish
prefer two or three feedings a day. One can usually set up some
arrangement which allows vegetarian fish to eat all day.

At present, the piscine population of my tank consists of small
omnivores. They get fed twice a day; occasionally thrice.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Peter Pan wrote:
How often should I add Seaweed for the grazer fish I have a Coral Beauty
Angel. Foxface and a Powder blue tang?

I had nori once or twice a day.

Yea but I think he was asking how often the fish get
the seaweed, not how often you have it :-)

Yea most people ad it about once a day, and give
enough for the fish to graze on through the day.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


KurtG wrote on 2/24/2007 11:53 PM:
Peter Pan wrote:
How often should I add Seaweed for the grazer fish I have a Coral Beauty
Angel. Foxface and a Powder blue tang?

I had nori once or twice a day.

I'm obviously doing something wrong here with the seaweed; I'm just not sure
what it is.
I'm using Julian Springs Sea Veggies (green seaweed) They come in sheets
that have lines on it from top to bottom. In the morning I break off a strip
and place it on a clip and put said clip into the tank. Within minutes the
strip I broke off is gone either eaten away by the grazers or free floating
because one of the fish tore at it and ripped the area attached to the clip.
I wind up adding more to the clip several times through out the day. My
question is; what am I doing wrong here?
Thanks
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
nk.net...
Yea but I think he was asking how often the fish get
the seaweed, not how often you have it :-)

Yea most people ad it about once a day, and give
enough for the fish to graze on through the day.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


KurtG wrote on 2/24/2007 11:53 PM:
Peter Pan wrote:
How often should I add Seaweed for the grazer fish I have a Coral
Beauty
Angel. Foxface and a Powder blue tang?

I had nori once or twice a day.

Peter Pan wrote:
I wind up adding more to the clip several times through out the day. My
question is; what am I doing wrong here?

I use a rubber band to hold nori on a polished oyster shell. I hung the
oyster shell about halfway up the tank with some fishing line and
another rubber band. It makes it harder for the Tang to just wolf down
or rip off a bunch of nori. Instead of 10 minutes, the Nori usually
lasts about 6 hours. I replenish whenever I see it empty which is about
twice a day.

I also learned to cut the nori into 4" by 1/2" strips. It seems to work
better. It only takes me a minute with a scissors.