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Fish foods/feeding strategies

zedxplorer

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Opening up a discussion on what people feed their fishes and what feeding strategies they do to keep a balance between nutrients and water quality. I am curious to learn what you guys do.

I have a 120g+30g sump so 100g total water volume give or takes.
4 large fish 6"+ (3 tangs and a foxface)
5 wrasses and a few small/medium fish

I feed 2 cubes of frozen mysis mixed with vita chem and spirulina powder, mixed of pellets and a few NLS algae wafers, twice a day.

To upkeep, skimmer/filter socks weekly, 20g WC biweekly to keep my water quality not go crazy. NP levels average around 30ppm and 1ppm respectively, I don't really check. Mixed reef and acros don't seem to complain.

What do you guys do in terms of feeding? I am tempted to simplify my food mix
 
1-2 sheets of nori daily, big pinch of flakes and frozen 1-3 times weekly. no3 is in the 50's and po4 is higher than I like but acros grow just fine.
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8"+ Blonde Naso
7-8" Desjardini Sailfin
Couple other decent sized fish, few smaller guys and girls too. Multiple times per week I turkey baste the rocks and syphon the detritus out. I run a power filter on my sump to help with that mess.
Bubble King Deluxe 200 does the heavy lifting and I can usually go about 10-14 days before emptying a full cup.
Actual water changes in, I can't even remember the last time I did one as I run the Reef Moonshiners method. I do skim heavy and wet so that's my water change I guess.
Tank is a 200 with 74 gallon sump so roughly 240 gallons total.
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