Fish foods

[Krypt1979]

I have been thinking lately about what I feed my fish, and I was curious as to what everyone else likes to feed. I feel like my fish aren't getting all the nutrients they need and I'm hoping to remedy that, but all the research in the world won't help without a few testimonials from you guys here.

Currently I feed PC mysis, 2 four ounce cubes every other day, and sheets of nori on the opposite days. I have Tangs, a Foxface, couple O.clowns, Arc-eye Hawkfish, and a Blue damsel. They all eat well and devour everything in minutes everyday, I just want to try to give them the best diet I can.

So...what do you guys like to feed?

 

[blanden.adam]

Fish:
1 Desjardini Sailfin Tang
1 Blue Spot Jawfish
2 Ocellaris Clowns
1 Purple Firefish
1 Target Mandarin

I feed 1/8th a sheet of nori in the mornings, some NLS pellet food (mixture of small fish and 1 mm sinking pellets) by auto feeder at 1pm, and a cube of home-made food at between 5 and 8 pm. It has an octopus and table shrimp base, mixed with PE Mysis, Hikari blood worms, Daphnia, Cyclopeeze, Nori, Spinach, Krill, and a little bit of BRS Reef Chili all mixed together in a blender to different consistancies, all mixed together and frozen in a tiny ice-cube tray. Thaw one cube out and toss it in front of the powerhead, everyone gets what they need. Every once in a while I'll feed some Nutramar Ova too, especially when introducing a finicky eater.

 

[Conesus_Kid]

95% of my fishes' diet consists of New Life Spectrum pellets. I'll occasionally feed PE mysis and/or nori, but honestly my fish are fat, vibrantly colored and my clowns and blackbar chromis are constantly spawning

Fish:
Tennenti tang
Yellow tang
Blue throat trigger
Coral beauty
Flame angel
Lyretail anthias
Yellowtail blue damsel
3 blackbar chromis
2 Clarkii clowns
Yellow watchman goby
(aiptasia eating filefish- haven't seen him eat NLS pellets)

 

[AmherstReef]

I feed frozen mysis daily and nori sheets every couple days

 

[Randy15]

I feed PE mysis soaked in selcon and garlic, and spectrum pellets. Plus different types of nori daily.

 

[NirvanaFan]

New life spectrum pellets are AWESOME!

I feed my own mix of frozen food that I get from Wegmans. some type of fish, squid, clam, scallops (rinse them to get rid of nitrates), cut up nori, shrimp. Sometimes I'll use cyclop-eeze or whatever else I feel like it. Dice up equalish parts of each and mix well. Add some vitamins (selco or the like). Put enough in a baggie so it is 1/8" thick when laying on it's side, and freeze like that.

Break off a piece, add it to a cup of tank water and feed with a turkey baster.

 

[tmz]

Twice a day.

Hikari mysis, bloodworm and brine shrimp and cyclopeeze. Broadcast feeding with a trukey baster.

Every other day: same as above plus one feeding : Nori, spirulina flakes, Prime reef falkes and minced krill.

 

[MiaCoral]

I have been using rods food, mysis and brine shrimp. My fish seem to absolutely go nuts over the rods food.

 

[jimlin]

I feed PE mysis soaked in selcon and garlic, and spectrum pellets. Plus different types of nori daily.

+1
i also soak the spectrum pellets and flakes with selcon and garlic.

 

[Krypt1979]

Thanks for the recommendations all! I will be looking into the new spectrum pellets and maybe some of the home made foods. I want my fishes fat and happy.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

grocery list

grocery list

Foods and feedings will vary with each unique aquarium.
I use frozen orange sections, frozen broccoli, Spectrum pellets, Pro Salt brand frozen foods, ON flake and Iams

 

[lhscouchmonster]

NLS pellets on an autofeeder twice a day. I crush up ocean nutrition formula two flakes and drop them in once a day. I target feed frozen mysis to my corals twice a week (half the corals one day and half the corals the one night) and the fish snag those if they are feeling aggressive.

 

[triggreef]

Outside the box.... I feed black worms and from what I've seen online there is nothing closer to the natural diet as far as the proteins and oils and such that the fish would be getting. PaulB on here is a big advocate and reading his posts on them is what got me started. I do have some stubborn fish that wont try them, but the majority eat them like candy.

I have a dot dash butterfly that did not eat or even try anything for nearly a month. Then he began eating the BW's and it saved that fish, which now even eats flake food and everything frozen that hits the water.

I also just tried Reef frenzy frozen foods for the first time this week after doing a group buy. I like it and it is clean. All the fish will eat it which is nice. No more needing to feed 10 different things to accommodate each fish. The only downside is it is expensive.

 

[Krypt1979]

Foods and feedings will vary with each unique aquarium.
I use frozen orange sections, frozen broccoli, Spectrum pellets, Pro Salt brand frozen foods, ON flake and Iams

Iams? As in dog food Iams?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

yes

yes

I have large fish

 

[Paul B]

Eating some black worms, a staple of my tank for decades

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