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PJ's are a nice schooling fish always a welcome addition in my book

Mark how often do you feed your fish? Someone at my LFS told me to only feed my fish maybe 2 or 3 times a week in order to lower nitrates and avoid overfeeding. I was feeding them everyday before and they were looking plump and fat and great. I have two medium maroon clowns, a yellow tang, a kole tang, and a sixline wrasse. Did this feeding schedule for a few weeks and I noticed my Kole tang was getting a little thin and he died this morning =(. How often should I be feeding?

some fish need feed 2 and 3 times a day not a week. You should at least offer them something every day. You need to look up the needs of your fish. Your LFS has grossly miss informed you. Liveaquatica has some general guildline for those fish

How often do you eat? And if you were swimming all the time, would you need food to keep your energy up? Tangs are huge grazers.

We just had a speaker discuss fish vs food needs at our last meeting, and it was quite fascinating. I'll be sure to blog those details tomorrow in a fresh entry. I feed my tank about three times a day, but these aren't big portions. Everything is gone in mere minutes. Also, I'm running a reactor full of biopellets to keep NO3 and PO4 down, which allows me to feed more. win-win.

Great pics Marc! I loved my Lyretail harem in my old 180.