food

[timrandlerv10]

ok, now tha twe have my salt right, what should i be feeding my kids?


i have a nem that i feed 1/2 silversides twice-three times a week.

ora glow, freeze dried cyclopeeze and frozen mysis to the clowns and chromis (the crabs and shrimp come out too!!!)

i dose iron for the cheato and kent's marine 'in general' once a week.


i would like to add variety and maybe improve nutrition, for fish and corals--new larger frogs and hammers--alike.


thanks!

tim

 

[Tomoko Schum]

What's kent's marine "in general"?

Tomoko

 

[timrandlerv10]

I use kent's micro vert once a week at half dose. i'm still too concerned about water quality to be able to use the recommended dose without going nuts.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

This is just my own experience and I am sure that others have different experience with it.

Years ago I used Kent micro vert to feed my baby brine shrimp. It did not work out really well for me at that time. Only a few grew to maturity. So I gave up on the idea of feeding micro vert to filter feeders in general. I use live phytoplankton for that. Live phyto like DT's or a home brew works really well to increase the number of microfauna/filter feeders in the tank.

As far as feeding your tank is concerned, if you feed your fish with a variety of food, your corals will be fed, too, although some of us try to be extra nice to our SPS's by feeding them with our own concoction of various tiny food.

Euphyllia (frogspawn and hammer corals) are good at capturing passing food with their waving tentacles. Most mushrooms and zoanthids do not really need special feeding while palythoa and larger muchroom do enjoy being fed with tiny food like cyclopeeze. Recent studies seem to indicate that anemones should be fed with something smaller than silversides.

I hope others will chime in soon.

Tomoko

 

[timrandlerv10]

i fed formula one flake for the first time today, and the female clown raced right for it (still floating), grabbed the biggest piece, and buried in the nem's mouth!

can you explain home brew a little--pretend i'm from mars and have no clue what you're discussing

tim

 

[woodywoo]

For your fish I would recommend New Life "Spetrum" foods, Pellets or Flakes. I know alot of leading wholesales feed that. Do the reseach and ask your LFS's most will recommend it. It does cost alot more but it's worth it. I personally have never had a fish not want to eat it. It promotes color, immunity and over all complete health, but is high in PO4.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

can you explain home brew a little

It's called green water. I culture nanochloropsus (phytoplankton) in one liter bottles. It is easy to culture but takes some patience and dedication. DT's phytoplankton is easier but more costly.

You can make your own frozen food for your fish by buying a bag of mixed frozen sea food from a local Korean store (very inexpensive) and pulverizing them in a food processor.

Tomoko

 

[timrandlerv10]

i thought buying food (human type?) would be full of preservatives and phosphates, and that would be bad?

can you recommend a store and mix local to the research park area?

was culturing phyto part of the discussion at CRA?

 

[kiran523]

This should answer most of your questions regarding home culturing.

Home culture of microfood articles

As far as other nutrients for your corals and better frags, Personally, I have had excellent results with:

---Seachem Reef Plus 2 times per weeks

Reef Plusâ"žÂ¢ is a full spectrum reef supplement containing trace elements, vitamins, and amino acids demonstrated to have a positive impact on the growth of corals and other desirable reef creatures. Reef Plusâ"žÂ¢ is formulated to provide nutrients available from natural tropical reef waters. Contains vitamin B12, vitamin C, thiamine, inositol, choline, iodide, and other essential constituents at pH 8.3. Reef Plusâ"žÂ¢ is nitrate/phosphate free.

---American Marine Selcon

Selcon, an aquarium food booster that features highly unsaturated OMEGA 3 fatty acids, Marine Lipids (200 mg/g), Stabilized Vitamin C (200 mg) and Vitamin B12 Cyanocobalamin (240 mcg). Soak any freeze-dried, frozen food or dried food to give it additional nutritional value or use directly in the tank to benefit filter-feeding invertebrates. American Marine Selcon does not alter water chemistry and it does not contain Yeast, Phosphates or Nitrates. It also helps cure Head and Lateral Line Erosion / Disease. 60mL

Reef Chili (along with Selcon) 2-3 times per week

Contains: Zooplankton, Spray-dried Phytoplankton, Artemia nauplii replacement diet, Freeze dried Rotifers, Freeze dried Copepods, Dried Daphnia, and Spirulina Powder

Reef Chili.com

---Mysis and Brine

Always soaked with Reef Chili and Selcon for around 2 hours before I target feed all my Zoa's/Palys, Galaxea, Torch and Frogspawn, Cynarina, Acan lords, Duncans, and Mushrooms (Discosoma, Rhodactis, and Ricordea)

I have had excellent coloration and growth in all my corals as well as being very very inexpensive. I have used used Chromaplex as well as DT's in the past but I prefer my current feeding Regimen. I have been using Reef Chili for the last 4 months and have only used 1/8 of the bottle so far. It lasts forever and EVERYTHING in my tank reacts to it. The website is not an exaggeration.

Here's another article

Reef Food by Eric Borneman

Hope that helps, take care

Kiran

 

[6Speed]

I make my own food:

one bag of mixed uncooked seafood
several sheets of nori
couple chunks of cyclopeeze
a few teaspoons of liquid garlic (from grocery store)

and blend...

Then I pour the mixture in a zip-lock bag, press it out flat, and freeze it. Easy to break off a chunk and toss it in the tank.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

We use frozen sea food such as shrimp, squid, mussels, etc. (no preservatives), and not the prepared sea food product. Phosphate is not an enemy. All living things need phosphate, including corals (although in a minuscule amount.) It's just that we let it get out of hand in our small glass boxes. Since an excess of it often fuels algae growth in our tank, we try to limit the amount that goes into our tank and try to export as much as possible before algae get to use it.

Tomoko

 

[Bkndsdl]

I make my own food, and I made a food tray to go with it; works pretty good. Here's the link:

Homemade food & food tray!