Food supplement. What do you use?

[coryjac0b]

When i feed i usually use NLS pellets soaked in selcon. Every couple days ill feed some frozen mysis and another frozen food i can't think of off the top of my head, i know it has clam squid and other stuff in it. I usually soak that in selcon as well. Also feed nori once a day.

I want to make sure I'm giving my fish all that i can to keep them healthy, happy, and pretty.

So my question is, besides selcon, what can i use to soak the food in to keep my fish healthy happy and colorful?

 

[snorvich]

Personally, I would prefer frozen to pellets. Rod's food, mysis, etc works well. I think that pellets have more phosphate than is desirable.

 

[coryjac0b]

I was always told it was the other way around, I am definitely not doubting you, but do you have any articles stating this, or anyone else have any input about that?

 

[hanas]

I pretty much just use selcon when feeding pellets (usually rotate between pellets and frozen), and that's about it for additives.

 

[discusone]

i also prefer fresh frozen to pellets.I soak various seameats overnight in a high quality fish oil,along with a couple of drops of V8 juice,the low sodium variety once a week.Vitachem a couple of times a month.I have been keeping away from the prepackaged frozen stuff,i.e,Ocean Nutrition,and Hikari.Just feel im not sure if it has been frozen,thawed,then refrozen,repeat.

 

[coryjac0b]

i also prefer fresh frozen to pellets.I soak various seameats overnight in a high quality fish oil,along with a couple of drops of V8 juice,the low sodium variety once a week.Vitachem a couple of times a month.I have been keeping away from the prepackaged frozen stuff,i.e,Ocean Nutrition,and Hikari.Just feel im not sure if it has been frozen,thawed,then refrozen,repeat.

whats your recipe?

 

[andygb54303]

Selcon!

 

[jda]

I am just the opposite of most. I prefer pellets as a staple over frozen food just from a pure waste factor. There is no juice from pellets and the usually swallow them whole with no waste. This becomes more important as the fish grow. When the fish get bigger, frozen just doesn't go very far and they miss a lot of it. My crosshatch and larger angels couldn't get to half of the rods food the last time that I tried it. Mysis is fun, but they could eat a whole sheet in 2 days. I buy NLS large pellets in the 5 pound bucket.

I know that some people like their corals to eat some of the juices and waste, but I don't really care - I would rather not have the N and P.

I would not use the supplements on the frozen food. It is much more effectively abosorbed by the pellets. I also use some zoe every once in a while. If I have a high-risk HLLE fish (like a hippo), then I put some cod liver oil on the food a few times a week too.