Everyday Fish Food

[anuragdamle]

Hi reefers,

I have a 90g reef with following fish in it.
Yellow tang
Power blue tang
2 mated clown (1 snowflake)
Mandarin Fish
Fire Fish
2 Damsels
1 cleaner Shrimp
hermits and snails

Currently i feed them formula 1 and formula 2 pallets from ocean nutrition(once a day). Once a week i mix frozen mysis shrimp and frozen sprinula brine shrimp


Am i feeding them the right food? Is there something i need to add to the daily food especially for tangs?

 

[heathlindner25]

Nori sheets are like magical medicine for tangs, pellets and flakes are highly nutritious

 

[happyhourhero]

NLS pellets are always a good choice. My fish love them and look great.

 

[sealtea116]

Tangs need seaweed(nori) as part of there diet they recommend 3 times a week I only feed nori twice a week

 

[laga77]

Flakes and pellets are crap. They are processed leftovers. Stay with fresh, frozen, or live foods, for healthy fish. Chopped up clams and live black worms and white worms is the best food you can feed. The only flake to be used is algae or nori.

 

[heathlindner25]

Flakes and pellets are crap. They are processed leftovers. Stay with fresh, frozen, or live foods, for healthy fish. Chopped up clams and live black worms and white worms is the best food you can feed. The only flake to be used is algae or nori.

not even close to being true...

 

[pyithar]

i feed nls pellets and formula 2 pellets once a day. i also feed nori for tangs everyday, sometimes every other day. all my fish are fat and my ocellaris pair spawn every 2 weeks so i guess they're happy with the food.

 

[billdogg]

Flakes and pellets are crap. They are processed leftovers. Stay with fresh, frozen, or live foods, for healthy fish. Chopped up clams and live black worms and white worms is the best food you can feed. The only flake to be used is algae or nori.

not even close to being true...

I disagree as well. Although I can't speak towards other brands, NLS pellets have been my fishes primary food source for well over 20 years. Either my fish and I have been very lucky or NLS is a good, nutritious option. I feed frozen of one sort or another a couple times a week, and FWIW, my Tomini Tang won't touch nori but somehow remains fat and healthy.

 

[laga77]

I disagree as well. Although I can't speak towards other brands, NLS pellets have been my fishes primary food source for well over 20 years. Either my fish and I have been very lucky or NLS is a good, nutritious option. I feed frozen of one sort or another a couple times a week, and FWIW, my Tomini Tang won't touch nori but somehow remains fat and healthy.

There are too many people out there feeding only flakes and pellets. I was one of those once, 25 years ago. Once I switched over to fresh and live, the occurrence of disease has dropped to nearly zero. Start reading the threads on clams and worms. I rotate between all kinds of food, any kind of fresh seafood gets chopped up. Animals on the reef feed on a variety of foods, whatever they can find. They do not find flakes and pellets.

 

[3dees]

I feed nori everyday. my two wrasse's, foxface, and angels devour it in about ten minutes. I combine frozen and flake at every feeding except two days a week when they get freeze dried blackworms. my fish are all healthy. what's your mandarin eating?

 

[johanasu]

There are too many people out there feeding only flakes and pellets. I was one of those once, 25 years ago. Once I switched over to fresh and live, the occurrence of disease has dropped to nearly zero. Start reading the threads on clams and worms. I rotate between all kinds of food, any kind of fresh seafood gets chopped up. Animals on the reef feed on a variety of foods, whatever they can find. They do not find flakes and pellets.

From that mentality, they are never going to run into live black or white worms, or a nice clam frappe in the ocean either. So your idea is not logical.

The high quality foods, like NLS pellets, contain many of the ingredients that you are touting (quality seafood). Many of the healthiest fish I've seen eat pellets, flake and occasional frozen. Not just frozen or live.

 

[anuragdamle]

I feed nori everyday. my two wrasse's, foxface, and angels devour it in about ten minutes. I combine frozen and flake at every feeding except two days a week when they get freeze dried blackworms. my fish are all healthy. what's your mandarin eating?

my mandarin and cleaner shrimp usually eat the small pallets of ocean nutrition formula 2 that sink to the bottom of the tank. They really seems to like it

 

[laga77]

Taken from the NLS site; Typical Ingredients: Whole Antarctic Krill, Whole Herring, Whole Wheat Flour, Algae, Beta Carotene, Spirulina, Garlic, Vegetable and Fruit Extract,... A worm is a worm. Marine worms might be better, if I could culture them I would try. There are many types of clams on the reef and when they are found by predators bits go into the water column and are eaten all the time by whatever is swimming by. I have yet to see a school of fish feeding in a wheat field or vegetable garden.

 

[johanasu]

Many fish eat algae, micro and macro, as well as seaweed. The flora of the ocean, many of the same nutrients as the flora of the land....

 

[laga77]

Many fish eat algae, micro and macro, as well as seaweed. The flora of the ocean, many of the same nutrients as the flora of the land....

Plants grow on land. Fish eat algae. Algae is not a plant.

 

[heathlindner25]

Plants grow on land. Fish eat algae. Algae is not a plant.

You don't think there are marine plants including seaweeds that fish eat..Bbwaaaaa...lol
I'm talking about marine seaweeds in the plant kingdom.
Getting back on subject quality flakes and pellets should be 80% or more of your fishes diet, Imo.
a lot of frozen food is up to 90% water anyways, and I try to stay away from freshwater worms for saltwater animals.

 

[laga77]

a lot of frozen food is up to 90% water anyways, and I try to stay away from freshwater worms for saltwater animals.

Frozen food is made up of animals, animals are 90% water so what`s your point.
Please show where freshwater or terrestrial worms are bad.

 

[heathlindner25]

I don't advocate feeding any freshwater animals to saltwater animals,kind of like feeding goldfish to lionfish.The only reason to use black worms ,is to entice a feeding response from an extremely hard animal to keep anyways..

 

[civics14]

I make my own fish food, and I rotate each of them. Use all Raw/Fresh ingredients and throw it in a blender then put it in ziploc bags and freeze them. Break off a chunk that will last 2-3 days, melt in a small container (refrigerate after feeding). Big money saver too to make your own - $15 worth of ingredients will last you easy 6+ months if you have a local Asian Farmer's Market.

batch 1 - oysters, clams, seaweed (nori), smelt, shrimp
batch 2 - octopus, squid, brine shrimp, seaweed (nori)

Next round of batches, I will add Spirunila Powder to it. I read good things about this.

This is not an exact science, but each day I would start with flake/pellet first thing (because once your fish eats fresh they seem to turn away flake unless its first thing when they're hungry), then the 2nd & 3rd feeding I would give them some of the pre-made batches (thawed out of course).

I believe in variety.

My live stock include: pair of clowns, pair of firefish, yellow tail damsel, yellow tang, neon dottyback, and a fire shrimp. All healthy and happy.

Hi reefers,

I have a 90g reef with following fish in it.
Yellow tang
Power blue tang
2 mated clown (1 snowflake)
Mandarin Fish
Fire Fish
2 Damsels
1 cleaner Shrimp
hermits and snails

Currently i feed them formula 1 and formula 2 pallets from ocean nutrition(once a day). Once a week i mix frozen mysis shrimp and frozen sprinula brine shrimp


Am i feeding them the right food? Is there something i need to add to the daily food especially for tangs?

 

[Rubasu]

I've use flakes for the last 4 years and all my fish are fat, dumb, and happy.