How to feed fish question??

[Tmoriarty]

I know its maybe stupid but how should I feed the fish tank? Currently im feeding twice a day but thats less my question then what to do with the pump/overflow??

I thaw out the food before feeding but if i leave on my flow to my sump a good amount of it gets sucked into my mechanical filter and just seems like it would be a nitrate factory of nutrients if I left it.

What I have been doing is turning off my sump pump and closing the ball valve on my overflow to stop the flow through the tank, I then feed them wait about 5 mins for them to eat mostly all of the food and turn the pump and overflow back on.

Is this what I should be doing or should I just pour in the food and let them eat what they can and rinse the mechanical filter after every feeding???

[Chris27]

What you're doing is just fine....keeping fresh rotting food out of a mechanical filter is always a good thing. You could go one step further, and feed the fish by hand with tongs, it helps limit overfeeding, and makes the fish more personable.

[Ron Reefman]

How much food do you put in the tank at one time? I mix a variety of foods (flake, frozen and freeze dried) in a glass and feed it to the tank with a turkey baster. I feed small amounts over a 10 or 15 minute period. It's rare that any food makes it to the overflow as the fish really go after it. If they don't finish a dose quickly, I don't add any more.