I ran out of food!

[probe dms]

Hey i ran out of food and need to know if theres anything in my apt that i could possibly feed my fish. I have a couple of clowns and dominos.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Wait til tomorrow they will be fine.

 

[NYreefNoob]

They Arent Going To Starve In A Few Days, Ive Went 3 Days With Out Feeding

 

[LeslieS]

stick your hand in the tank :eat:

 

[DevIouS]

 

[Malibu361]

why not just go today and buy some?

 

[probe dms]

i can get some food today...thing is i ran out of food like 2 days ago and yesterday i went and bought some brine but by the time i came home, they were all melted. after i froze it again and put some in the tank, it just dissolved like a ice cube with no real meaty parts. did i get the wrong frozen brine??? my son has a pet land across from his school so when i go get him ill scoop up another brand. what household food could i feed them though. i heard about people putting in table food.

 

[aaron23]

just get flake food... or some (bee farts)

 

[probe dms]

i need flakes but i also need brine for my mandarin

 

[Killerdrgn]

Or go to the supermarket and buy some seafood, grind it up, and feed.

 

[Malibu361]

Once in a while when I would have tuna fish (in water ) I would squeeze the water an put some pieces of tuna in the tank not all of it I would dillute it some...

 

[georgelc86]

I did the tuna fish idea as well and worked great. Probe dont worry about the brine its still good, I have done the same thing before too.

 

[tosiek]

your mandarin's diet should be mostly pods anyways. If its not then i can guarantee you its gonna die in 8 months tops.

Flake will be fine anyways for the rest of the fish.

 

[CHEMCHEF]

That not true.
protein is protein. Shrimp is protien.
It may be hard to get a madarin to eat anything other than pods, but if you do, and have seen it eating. You wil be fine

your mandarin's diet should be mostly pods anyways. If its not then i can guarantee you its gonna die in 8 months tops.

Flake will be fine anyways for the rest of the fish.

 

[jhale]

Adult Brine shrimp are severely deficient in nutrients and should never be relied upon as a main part of a fishes diet.

Brine Shrimp Info

As Tony stated you need a steady diet of live pods for your mandarin.

 

[tosiek]

Its not about the protein or getting enough nutrients to them, its something about their behavior/instinct or something. Ive killed 2 mandarins like this (ocellatus or scooter dragonette) in the hopes of getting one to eat other things than pods (i suck i know). They eat, stay fat, then one day stop eating for a week or two starving themselves to death back in my very low pod population nano that i had. And its the same story with any tank with a smaller pod count thats ever told their dragonette death story. That or they couldn't get them on frozen foods.

Very few people get lucky enough to keep them alive past a year and keep eating if their tank is underpopulated with pods. Most have a much easier time getting the Synchiropus splendidus to keep alive than the ocellatus as they adjust to the new foods well and those are the majority with the success stories. Most times the success stories are from tanks that have been stable and established past a 1-2 years.

 

[probe dms]

you know what... the dam chic at the store gave me hatchery brine. that was the problem. i have regular brine and tetra salt flakes.