Blind LATZ
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LargeAngels
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Good point chrisstie. I was just going to ask hybridgenius how many latz he has that are over a year and what he feeds them.
I can tell you that I fed mine mostly a homemade food mixture with various seafoods, vegetables, multivitamins, whole eggs, Selcon, Nori, etc. This was also given to my allaridi, akindynos, occ, percs., caps, GSM's, polymus, frenatus, etc. and they never went blind. Water temp. didn't seem to impact it either. Two pairs in 80's, two pairs in mid to low 70's. No visible eye injury ever and these were pretty calm fish.
I've only ever had two other fish that went blind. One white tail chrysopterus and one yellow belly blue tang.
I can tell you that I fed mine mostly a homemade food mixture with various seafoods, vegetables, multivitamins, whole eggs, Selcon, Nori, etc. This was also given to my allaridi, akindynos, occ, percs., caps, GSM's, polymus, frenatus, etc. and they never went blind. Water temp. didn't seem to impact it either. Two pairs in 80's, two pairs in mid to low 70's. No visible eye injury ever and these were pretty calm fish.
I've only ever had two other fish that went blind. One white tail chrysopterus and one yellow belly blue tang.
chrisstie
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I've only had my latz for roughly 2-3 months now and want to make sure I provide her with all she needs. I also work at a very knowledgable LFS and have been using what I learn about our feeding at the store to apply at home.
So far I'm also using a variety as well: Mysis, formula two, nori, lobster eggs, decap'd brine shrimp (ready to hatch in your tank without the hard outer shell) occasionally i'll cut up stuff from the store like shrimp squid tubes and scallops..
I have garlic and zoe marine as food soaks and the occasionall formula 1 pellet if i am in a hurry and didn't have enough time to thaw the better quality food.
My latz is my largest fish. I'm also feeding cardinals, a pygmy angel, and small blennies and gobies- the blennies seem content with my rockwork, but the gobies love the smaller foods.
I also have the option of getting Rod's food from my LFS from Rod's Onyx fame, but have been seeing results in the store first before deciding to purchase it. It looks like an amazing food but we're seeing the potential for overuse because it has so many small particles for coral, people don't realize you need to use that sparingly. I also have access to selcon but haven't used it personally in my tanks but mostly as a food soak or baby brine soak (we've on occasion raised young fish small enough to eat this and too small to eat larger meatier foods)
That's where I am. Just wondering if there's anything else I can be doing to keep her strong and healthy- she eats like a pig, she'd probably be happy with whatever I put in for her.
So far I'm also using a variety as well: Mysis, formula two, nori, lobster eggs, decap'd brine shrimp (ready to hatch in your tank without the hard outer shell) occasionally i'll cut up stuff from the store like shrimp squid tubes and scallops..
I have garlic and zoe marine as food soaks and the occasionall formula 1 pellet if i am in a hurry and didn't have enough time to thaw the better quality food.
My latz is my largest fish. I'm also feeding cardinals, a pygmy angel, and small blennies and gobies- the blennies seem content with my rockwork, but the gobies love the smaller foods.
I also have the option of getting Rod's food from my LFS from Rod's Onyx fame, but have been seeing results in the store first before deciding to purchase it. It looks like an amazing food but we're seeing the potential for overuse because it has so many small particles for coral, people don't realize you need to use that sparingly. I also have access to selcon but haven't used it personally in my tanks but mostly as a food soak or baby brine soak (we've on occasion raised young fish small enough to eat this and too small to eat larger meatier foods)
That's where I am. Just wondering if there's anything else I can be doing to keep her strong and healthy- she eats like a pig, she'd probably be happy with whatever I put in for her.
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