MD’s 90 Gallon Shallow Reef

[Darkxerox]

Yeah I have mine that long because of how little whole mysis comes out in that time. It's barely a pinch, whereas If you're using powdered food or pellets, it's a lot. Adjust to what they can eat of course.

 

[MarcosD]

Just to make sure… @Alexander1312 and/or @Darkxerox does this look right?

If I want to feed 4 times, 45sec each feeding, starting at 11am, every 3hrs? Maximum on time set to 1min as failsafe

 

[Alexander1312]

Just to make sure… @Alexander1312 and/or @Darkxerox does this look right?

If I want to feed 4 times, 45sec each feeding, starting at 11am, every 3hrs? Maximum on time set to 1min as failsafe

Looks correct to me.

I am still curious though why people feed throughout the entire photo period? For example, when I feed two sheets of seaweed in the morning, it will be mostly gone in the next few hours. However, when I feed later in the afternoon, they will barely eat one sheet. I noticed a similar behavior with frozen food. So my assumption was that feeding them primarily in the first 2/3 of the day is preferable. So I feed an hour after lights on every hour for 4 hours, in parallel there will be seaweed, and then in the afternoon around 4-5pm frozen food, and no more food for the last 2-3 hours of the day. There seems to be barely any food wasted this way, but I know others like to feed much more. Anyway, just some thoughts around this topic since I saw @Darkxerox had it setup with a similar spread as you are planning to.

Edit: I have also a dependency on the pump on. So that it does not feed when the pump is not on.

 

[MarcosD]

Looks correct to me.

I am still curious though why people feed throughout the entire photo period? For example, when I feed two sheets of seaweed in the morning, it will be mostly gone in the next few hours. However, when I feed later in the afternoon, they will barely eat one sheet. I noticed a similar behavior with frozen food. So my assumption was that feeding them primarily in the first 2/3 of the day is preferable. So I feed an hour after lights on every hour for 4 hours, in parallel there will be seaweed, and then in the afternoon around 4-5pm frozen food, and no more food for the last 2-3 hours of the day. There seems to be barely any food wasted this way, but I know others like to feed much more. Anyway, just some thoughts around this topic since I saw @Darkxerox had it setup with a similar spread as you are planning to.

Edit: I have also a dependency on the pump on. So that it does not feed when the pump is not on.

Thank you!

I don’t feed for my entire photo period. My lights don’t kick on until 3pm.

I set the pump on a normal power outlet, not on XP8 since I don’t have anymore outlets available. Already thinking of getting a second XP8…

 

[Darkxerox]

Looks correct to me.

I am still curious though why people feed throughout the entire photo period? For example, when I feed two sheets of seaweed in the morning, it will be mostly gone in the next few hours. However, when I feed later in the afternoon, they will barely eat one sheet. I noticed a similar behavior with frozen food. So my assumption was that feeding them primarily in the first 2/3 of the day is preferable. So I feed an hour after lights on every hour for 4 hours, in parallel there will be seaweed, and then in the afternoon around 4-5pm frozen food, and no more food for the last 2-3 hours of the day. There seems to be barely any food wasted this way, but I know others like to feed much more. Anyway, just some thoughts around this topic since I saw @Darkxerox had it setup with a similar spread as you are planning to.

Edit: I have also a dependency on the pump on. So that it does not feed when the pump is not on.

The room lights are on until we go to bed so the butterflies are still eating until the lights go out. Almost all the food gets eaten too, the rest gets wiped out by my monster amphipod population in my sump and huge skimmer.