Foods

[MandarinFish]

I have:

* Indian Ocean Sail Fin Tang
* Coral Beauty Angelfish
* Percula clown fish
* Australian Harlequin Tuskfish
* Cleaner Wrasse
* Yellow Tang
* Darkfin Hind

Altogether, it is recomended (by 1 site) I feed:

* spirulina, zucchini, broccoli, leaf lettuce,seaweed
* marine algae,angelfish preparations,
* mysid/frozen shrimp,meaty foods
* live, frozen, and flake foods
* black worms, feeder shrimp,chopped fresh or frozen seafoods
* brine shrimp, and live black worms
* zucchini, broccoli, leaf lettuce, and dried seaweed
* meaty foods such as krill, shrimp, and other small fish

What do you think? What do you feed your fish? What would you feed these fish?

 

[albee1947]

A varied diet is good for the critters. I feed mine spectrum, that has been soaked in Vitamins and garlic. I let it sit in the fridge and dry out, All my fish love it. Except the lion and eels. I also 2 times a week give them dried algae. And twice a week i feel the lion and eels silversides and squid, The other fish also pick at that.
Hope this helps.

 

[MandarinFish]

Where do you get the vitamins and garlic?

 

[D-Nak]

A great vitamin supplement that I'd recommend is called Selcon, by a company called American Marine. Some specs:

"The only marine food additive to include Omega 3 HUFA used extensively at commercial fish-farms to raise larger, healthier, more colorful fish.

Excellent for reef aquaria

Filters may be kept running

Will not alter water chemistry

Does not contain Yeast, Phosphates or Nitrates

For marine use only

Use several times each week

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Ingredients: Selco Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids; Marine lipids 200 mg/g.; Vitamin C stabilized 200mg; Vitamin b12 Cyanocobalamin 240 mcg.

Soak any type of freezed-dried or frozen food with .5 ml Selcon

Feed 1.0 ml Selcon to portion of live brine shrimp to greatly enhance thier nutritional quality.

For invertebrate aquaria, add at the rate of .5 ml Selcon per 50 gallon aquarium."

Most online stores sell it. Just keep it refrigerated once you open it.

D-Nak

 

[MandarinFish]

You're the man, Derrick.

Can't wait to see what your next tank will be like.

Garlic from GNC stores?

Does anyone feed their tangs lettuce, broccoli, etc.?

 

[D-Nak]

I used to feed my tangs lettuce, until I starting feeding them nori (from the Asian market) which is actually better for them and since it comes from salt water, I think it's a better food source.

I did hear that you can feed them broccoli that's slightly blanched in water (to breakdown the tough fiberous structure) but I've never done it myself.

D-Nak

 

[naesco]

For tangs Nori as suggested. I throw in a microwaved broccoli from time to time but remove the stalk the next day. I do this because tangs kind of like to forage on it throughout the day and its 'seed's are small enough for small tang.

 

[Tremelle]

I feed my fish mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, Formula 2, spirulina flake by OSI, and Seaweed Selects algea sheets. I put 2 sheets on a rock in the tank every 2 days.

My fish include a desjardinii tang, blonde naso tang, regal angel, african pygmy angel, 2 clown gobies, and 3 green chromis.

 

[Anonymous]

A varied diet is definitely best. I feed, Forumla 1 & 2, Prime Reef, Mysis Shrimp, Krill, Brine Shrimp, Silver Sides, spirulina flake by OSI, 2 varities of Seaweed Selects, and Nori. All soaked in either Selcon or Zelcon (whichever is available when I run out). I have stayed away from the terrestial foods, just because they don't seem natural to me, but I know others have had sucess with them, just my opinion.

 

[Anonymous]

At the store we vary the diet but there are a few main staples.

All surgeonfish and other algae eaters get green seaweed(nori) from TLF. Large carnivores either get silversides or tetra freezedried krill. Other frozen foods include Hikari brine shrimp, mysis, and ocean plankton. Major store daily staple is Piscine Energetics Mysis relicta (by far the best frozen food out there IMO). Other things like Prime Reef, Shrimp Tail Meat, Seaworm Supreme, Angel Formula, Formula 2, etc etc gets swapped in from time to time.

Bout once or twice a week the corals get Hikari Daphnia as well.

 

[Renae]

I think Varied is the best way. We make a frozen food that has about 25 ingredients including tahatian blend so you dosing everytime you feed. I haven't had a fish refuse it and the inverts seem to love it too.
Renae

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[MandarinFish]

Do you thaw frozen foods prior to putting them in the tank?

Does anyone feed with VHP (very high protein - frozen blocks made by the frozen Formula 2 company)?

 

[SteveP]

For those of you that make your on foods using scallops, shrimp, squid, etc. from the market, do you cook them at all or just add them raw?

Steve
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[Anonymous]

Leave it raw and thaw it out. No need to cook it, I've never seen a trigger demand that his clams be cooked in white wine with shallots =)

 

[Anonymous]

For frozen foods, I hold the pieces that I've broken off in front of a powerhead, which quickyl thaws it and disperses the food quickly. I also think that the movement helps trigger some feeding response from the finicky guys.

 

[D-Nak]

Definitely thaw all frozen food before feeding them to your fish. I hear some can develop stomach or liver problems if they eat too much frozen food. Eels and other animals that eat their food whole (lionfish, groupers, etc.) are more prone to this. I think the best approach is to soak your frozen food in Selcon (or other vitamin supplement) for a few hours in the fridge and then feed it to your fish. Also, keep everything raw.

D-Nak

 

[AuroraDave]

You should thaw out the frozen foods first. I use shot glasses, and add a few drops of VitaChem or Selcon.