I have a pair of Percula Clowns, a Flame Angel, a Jewel Damsel, a Six Line Wrass, a Cardinal, and a Hawiian Yellow Tang in a 100 gal reef tank. I feed them frozen Mysis Shrimp and Formula 2 daily, dissolved in some tank water prior to feeding. They seem to like it and are all healthy, but i was wondering what foods people found to be the most successful for their fish? Also, the Formula 2 doesn't dissolve too well. It seems to be about the consistency of pencil erasers when i melt it in the water and when i pour it in i have to literally pulverize it with my fingers to get it to break up at all and not just float to the bottom in huge chunks to get hauled off by my greedy shrimp to eat in one of the caves in my tank. Any tips on feeding techniques that might help? Thanks.
Feeding Practices/Foods
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Recty
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I mix Formula 1, Formula 2, sometimes some Nori broken up real small and some mysis. I put these into a small glass and let them thaw in the refrigerator together, then mix them up. Keeping it in the fridge, it stays good for a week or so. I also mix in garlic marine flakes once it has thawed, it helps bind the mix together a little bit.
The smaller my fish are, the more I mix it. If I have big fish, I pretty much let it thaw and just stir it once or twice to make it mixed, and feed it like that, it stays together in bigger pieces which makes it easier to feed.
Every once in a while I put the mix into a blender with some shrimp or clam and blend it up real well. I have a piece of plexiglass for a base that I put some of that lighting screen on, egg crate I think it's called, and then I pour the mix into the cube shapes of the egg crate and freeze that. It makes an easy quick to feed food, you can put it right into the tank frozen, it floats and thaws quick, plus the big fish can pull off big hunks or the small fish can get the pieces that melt off and float around.
I dont do that too often because I think it puts a lot more nutrients into the water than the fish can eat since there are a lot of tiny particles created from the blending process. But my fish sure seem to love the extra meat
The smaller my fish are, the more I mix it. If I have big fish, I pretty much let it thaw and just stir it once or twice to make it mixed, and feed it like that, it stays together in bigger pieces which makes it easier to feed.
Every once in a while I put the mix into a blender with some shrimp or clam and blend it up real well. I have a piece of plexiglass for a base that I put some of that lighting screen on, egg crate I think it's called, and then I pour the mix into the cube shapes of the egg crate and freeze that. It makes an easy quick to feed food, you can put it right into the tank frozen, it floats and thaws quick, plus the big fish can pull off big hunks or the small fish can get the pieces that melt off and float around.
I dont do that too often because I think it puts a lot more nutrients into the water than the fish can eat since there are a lot of tiny particles created from the blending process. But my fish sure seem to love the extra meat
Thanks for all your advice. I'll definitely get one of those clips because the gel binder makes it really hard to break up the food. In the meantime I'll try the garlic mincer and see how that goes. I've tried mixing my own food before and it works well, but it doesn't last as long in the freezer so it ends up being more work than it's worth for me to mix a new batch so frequently. Thanks again
i feed my fish 3 to 5 times a day small amounts and i feed a lot of different foods like formula 1, formula 2,aqueon marine granules and aqueon flake, o.s.i marine pellets, spectrum thera + A pellets and for the frozen foods i feed are enriched brine,cyclopeze,mysis shrimp and rods food the regular blend and the herbevore blend also and nori
