Feeding my new tank?

[Aquabliss]

My tank is about 3 1/2 weeks old now. I've never had any ammonia or nitrite readings, 50 pounds of live cured rock to start and 60 pounds of sand 20 of it live on top. Had nitrate at 5-10 until I added the fuge, now 0.

Last weekend I added 2 cerith, 2 nassarius, 3 turbos and 1 scarlet reef hermit. My fuge has chaeto which I recieved from a member here that came with those little white pods and small brittle worms.

So should I be feeding anything at all now while my tank ages some more?

 

[Snowboarda42]

You certainly can, it will help keep the bacteria levels up. I would take some flake or pellet food, take a peice of wax paper, fold it in half and put the food between the folded peices. Take the round hard end of a knife and grind/crush it until its powdery like. Add to tank. Make about a quarter to a half dollar size.

I'd do this about once every 3-4 days.

It should feed some of the bugs, bacteria, etc. in the tank.

 

[vwmoneypit]

something else I did to help my tank is I had a friend not kleen a side of his tank for a week and mag floated it and sraped it into a water jug and took it home and added it. the effect was a bang the tank took right offf and it actully matured quicker than his due to size difference ,and a scoop of a mature tank sand for the spaghettie worms ect .....And also need to look for the signs of cycles as well just my idea

 

[Aquabliss]

Ok then will start feeding a bit.

Thanks

vw, yes great idea and it's been done already, snagged a cup of sand each from two different lfs around the area.