Best foods for fish

[SeaHorsie*03]

I have seen lots of different kinds and brands of saltwater. I wanted to see which ones would be good.

What are the best frozen foods?
For herbivores
For carnivores?
For Omnivores?

What are the best kinds of pellet foods?

I know everyone will have different opinions and not everyone will agree on the same thing, I just want to hear people's opinion, so just say what you think is best.

 

[teamdulski]

Cyclops for frozen

Omega-one marine flake (with garlic)


IME

 

[HBtank]

PE mysis - frozen

New Life Spectrum - Pellet

Ocean Nutrition, reef Prime - Flake

Nori - good for many to munch on all day.

 

[SeaHorsie*03]

Thanks for the replies!!

Anyone else?? Im trying to get as many opinions as I can.

 

[dattong]

I've been feeding my fish mainly wardley's gold fish flakes and occasionally home made food. They're fat like pigs.

 

[rustybucket145]

I personally feel that feeding a variety is probably the best. The fact is that all out tank inhabitants have different nutritional needs and there's really no way to meet them all at the same time. So basically I buy a pack or two of each kind of frozen, some dried Cyclop-eeze. I have three different types of seaweed that I picked up from a local asian market for almost nothing. I rotate those for the herbivores. They like them just as good as nori and it holds up much better. My tang and trigger can rip a piece of nori up in 30min but the real stuff takes them the better part of the day. It keeps them active and in a more natural feeding pattern.

 

[arts007]

I use Rod's Food, has a wide variety of food in it

Ingredients are
Shrimp, scallop, oyster, clam, Squid, octopus, enriched brine, krill, mysis, grouper, Frozen Red Plankton, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, Red Nori, green nori, selco, garlic, Golden pearls (all sizes), DTs oyster eggs, nutra rose powder, fresh hatched brine, fresh harvested rotifers.

 

[xtm]

NLS Thera A soaked in Zoe
Formula 2 (frozen) thawed in Zoe
Bare Nori

I get deep, vivid coloration and good health with this combo

 

[Mavrk]

spectrum (omnivore)
formula one (omnivore)
formula two (herbivore or omnivore)
prime reef (carnivore or omnivore)
mysis shrimp (not brine shrimp since it has no nutritional value)
cyclopeeze

as mentioned above, feed a variety of these things. don't just stick to one. Also Selcon is a great supplement. I soak my frozen food in it. If I had live feeder shrimp, I would feed it to them. That stuff makes even brine shrimp okay to feed (although some fish can get addicted to brine shrimp).

 

[WharfRat]

Heres my list: Mysis, Cyclops, Bloodworms, Cocktail Shrimp, Daphnia, OSI Flake, Spectrum Pellets, Live Baby Brine, Live Micro Worms, Nori, Spinach, Kale, and Romaine. Vitamins once a week or so.

 

[Brian24]

My fish love live food but generally get pellets and frozen.

 

[MTB]

Rod's Food and Nori every other day.

 

[Warif]

I only feed my fishes SERA.

 

[BangkokMatt]

Always best to make your own IMO. Very easy and cheap.
Always give a variety. I use 2 different batches and also feed omega 1 and cyclopeze. My fish are fat and fun.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

I believe in variety as well.

Frozen foods (mostly hikari, some san fran. bay): Plankton (basicaly mini krill), spirulina enriched brine shrimp, mysis, marine cuisine, formula one and two, bloodworms, maybe some others I'm forgetting. I'm not a big fan of cyclopeeze, its too small for most stuff. I also have some fresh roe which I put into cubes and froze.

Dried: Formula one and two pellets and flakes, some kind of crumble food made with cyclopeeze, some other kind of crumble food, and some other random flakes and pellets that I dont use too much.

Frozen foods I've tried and didnt like: Glassworms (most float), tubifex worms (too small, turns into slime ball), daphnia (too small), baby brine shrimp (too small). I also tried making my own food, miserable waste of food, time, and money. Blender either blends it too chunky, or straight into liquid. It was a big mess. Its much easier to just buy the foods that are already the perfect size for your fish.