fattening up fish
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ejrabekoff
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Soak 1 feeding, every other day, in vitamins. Use a vitamin supplement, such as Vita-Chem, Zoe, or Selco. Soak 1 feeding, every other day, in a fat supplement, such as Zoecon, and Selcon. What are you feeding him?
mattsilvester
Team RC
ok....
Well, why is he skinny in the first place? Did you buy him skinny, or has he got skinny in your tank?
If you bought him skinny, and otherwise feed your fish well, then I would let well alone and he'll fatten up nicely in no time.
If you bought him nice and fat and he's got skinny, then you are simply not feeding him enough.
French angels are probably one of the easiest to feed, so you shouldn't have a probelm.
As far as soaking in vitamins - something I've never done, personally..... its good if you disipline yourself to doing it.... but I do not.
To keep any angel fat and healthy they need lots of food..... quanitity is every bit as important as quality..... at least 50% of its diet should be nori - fed daily. There should be nori in the clip all the time so it can be grazed on at leisure. A good quality dreid food is essential in my view also, as it contains all the vitmains and nutrients that are needed. And finally, something meaty, like angel formula is good.... brine shrimp is pretty useless - mysis or plankton is MUCH better.
Here is whay my 6" emporer gets:
Lots of nori
3 different flake foods, mixed up.
Frozen food - consisting of:
ENRICHED brineshrimp / mysis / plankton / squid / mussel / angel formula.
Gernally, when I get in from work at 5pm they get flake, shortly followed by nori. I disolve a few cubes (any combo of the above) rinse, and then feed half about 7pm, and the rest at 8 or 9pm..... the nori is usually gone about 10pm......
My emporer is fat, healthy, and have grown from 3" to 6"+ in about 10 months, and is about 3/4 through his colour change..... by any standards that is a very good rate of growth..... so I must be doing something right.
The key, in my view, is striking the balance between feeding heavily without over feeding......
Well, why is he skinny in the first place? Did you buy him skinny, or has he got skinny in your tank?
If you bought him skinny, and otherwise feed your fish well, then I would let well alone and he'll fatten up nicely in no time.
If you bought him nice and fat and he's got skinny, then you are simply not feeding him enough.
French angels are probably one of the easiest to feed, so you shouldn't have a probelm.
As far as soaking in vitamins - something I've never done, personally..... its good if you disipline yourself to doing it.... but I do not.
To keep any angel fat and healthy they need lots of food..... quanitity is every bit as important as quality..... at least 50% of its diet should be nori - fed daily. There should be nori in the clip all the time so it can be grazed on at leisure. A good quality dreid food is essential in my view also, as it contains all the vitmains and nutrients that are needed. And finally, something meaty, like angel formula is good.... brine shrimp is pretty useless - mysis or plankton is MUCH better.
Here is whay my 6" emporer gets:
Lots of nori
3 different flake foods, mixed up.
Frozen food - consisting of:
ENRICHED brineshrimp / mysis / plankton / squid / mussel / angel formula.
Gernally, when I get in from work at 5pm they get flake, shortly followed by nori. I disolve a few cubes (any combo of the above) rinse, and then feed half about 7pm, and the rest at 8 or 9pm..... the nori is usually gone about 10pm......
My emporer is fat, healthy, and have grown from 3" to 6"+ in about 10 months, and is about 3/4 through his colour change..... by any standards that is a very good rate of growth..... so I must be doing something right.
The key, in my view, is striking the balance between feeding heavily without over feeding......
Water Box
Member
I feed my French
Norii
Form 1 flake
prime reef flake
san fran angel and butterfly cube
H2O life reef #2 cubes
license plates
small children
He will pretty much eat anything. I try to feed 2x a day and I feed gradually over about a 10 minutes span so I know he gets his fill. Very full bodied (fatty) and so far very healthy.
Norii
Form 1 flake
prime reef flake
san fran angel and butterfly cube
H2O life reef #2 cubes
license plates
small children
He will pretty much eat anything. I try to feed 2x a day and I feed gradually over about a 10 minutes span so I know he gets his fill. Very full bodied (fatty) and so far very healthy.
mattsilvester
Team RC
interesting - deworming..... how would one go about doing that?
lynn53
New member
You can buy it at any fishstore. I believe it is a pepperzine based drug...but can't really remember. You pretty much have to treat them in a smaller tank to have it effective. I had a puffer once that was thin and wouldn't gain weight. He also pooped out long white stringish stuff instead of normal looking waste and after treating him with the dewormer he made a complete turn around.
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