Feeding a LemonPeel Angel?

[nanomilk]

What would you guys recommend I feed my lemonpeel? It currently takes marine greens and the occasional mysid. I've heard I should add nori?

 

[ACBlinky]

I feed my angels (flagfin, flame, coral beauty & flavicauda) TwoLittleFishies green 'Sea Veggies', which is essentially the same thing as Nori, along with sheets of purple seaweed from a Korean grocery down the street. They've got seaweed on a clip all day so they can graze, and I feed a meaty meal once a day. My flagfin is picky, so I try to give them something different at each feeding -- I alternate between mysis, brine, marine cuisine, krill, plankton, shrimp, Hikari angel formula (urchin/sponge), Hikari marine pellets and at least once a week they get a mussel on the half shell.

 

[nanomilk]

Ahhh nice. With the mussel, do you just buy mussels from the fish markets?

Also with the seaweed. Is it just the normal type of seaweed you can buy for snacks and for garnishing food? Is that fish safe?

 

[mels95yj]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7823027#post7823027 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ACBlinky
I feed my angels (flagfin, flame, coral beauty & flavicauda) TwoLittleFishies green 'Sea Veggies', which is essentially the same thing as Nori, along with sheets of purple seaweed from a Korean grocery down the street. They've got seaweed on a clip all day so they can graze, and I feed a meaty meal once a day. My flagfin is picky, so I try to give them something different at each feeding -- I alternate between mysis, brine, marine cuisine, krill, plankton, shrimp, Hikari angel formula (urchin/sponge), Hikari marine pellets and at least once a week they get a mussel on the half shell.

How do you keep the Nori from dissolving and floating around the tank? I've tried dipping it in water and freezing, rolling it up in a tube-shape, and rubberbanding it to a rock, but it still floats off. Sorry for the hijack.

Mel

 

[nanomilk]

My understanding is they have a little clip and just hold it in place with the clip?

If you don't have one of those just use your magnet cleaner to hold it in place. lol.

 

[ACBlinky]

IME the TwoLittleFishies green seaweed sheets stay together REALLY well, but supermarket nori (yup, the stuff they use for sushi, just make sure it's unseasoned) or other seaweed sheets designed for food use do tend to disintigrate a bit. I was using my MagFloat for a while, now I've got a clip epoxied to a smaller MagFloat that works a little better (no wasted algae left under the magnet). I don't mind some disintigration; I've got four angels that jockey for position around the seaweed, so pieces that float away are usually snatched up by whoever is last in line

I buy mussels live from the market and freeze them. They thaw in minutes, and pop open on their own. I usually just give a pull to fully open the shell, drop the entire thing in and watch the fish and corals have a field day

 

[mels95yj]

Yeah, I've got a clip that I used. It's just that 5 minutes after being in the water, it's broken free and floating around the tank. I've got unseasoned Nori from an oriental grocery store. I stopped feeding it just because of the hassle. Maybe I'll try the LFS brand.

Mel

 

[Vili_Shark]

It's a trigger in an angel body.
It'll eat everything.
I feed it spectrum pellets and flakes + a couple of times a week frozen mysis/HUFA artemia/Krill pacifica/krill superba.
After a coupe of months they become FAT and almost jumps out of the water begging for food.
Crazy Angel.