Ycore
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So, I guess like most reefers I'm always struggling to find the ideal fish food.. Clowns eat pellets but anthias and copperband doesn't. All fish like frozen Mysis, except for copperband which only pecks at it-- plus how nutritious is it? Most of the fish like Rod's food, but it really messes up the tank. Finding something that everyone loves and is also nutritious has been a struggle..
In a recent effort to try and get my Copperband to enthusiastically eat something besides Aiptasia, which are now all gone (yay), I tried everything. Someone mentioned live blackworms.. I could only find one place in the city that carried these, but I was willing to try anything.
Picked some up, stored them in the fridge in a tupperware with some ro/di water, and threw a squirtload of worms into my tank via turkey baster.. WOAH-- fish went absolutely crazy.. I mean total piranha knife-fight-to-the death feeding frenzy.. ALL the fish loved them (clowns,anthias, copperband, and flamehawk). My copperband couldn't suck them down fast enough, and though usually extremely shy actually went head to head with my flamehawk for the last bite. I then had some left over, stuck to the insides of my turkey baster, and for the heck of it shot some out onto the feeding tentacles of my scoly and acans. They loved them too!
What's best, is they are so clean and totally consumed.. No fine particles or random food pieces floating around the tank.
These have now become my defacto standard for feeding my fish and LPS. Fish are loving it, LPS are loving it, and my filter/skimmer/sand bed are appreciating the lack of detritus and uneaten food.
What I wonder then is why nobody talks about these? They seem to be the ultimate fish food, and the store up to a month live in the fridge.
In a recent effort to try and get my Copperband to enthusiastically eat something besides Aiptasia, which are now all gone (yay), I tried everything. Someone mentioned live blackworms.. I could only find one place in the city that carried these, but I was willing to try anything.
Picked some up, stored them in the fridge in a tupperware with some ro/di water, and threw a squirtload of worms into my tank via turkey baster.. WOAH-- fish went absolutely crazy.. I mean total piranha knife-fight-to-the death feeding frenzy.. ALL the fish loved them (clowns,anthias, copperband, and flamehawk). My copperband couldn't suck them down fast enough, and though usually extremely shy actually went head to head with my flamehawk for the last bite. I then had some left over, stuck to the insides of my turkey baster, and for the heck of it shot some out onto the feeding tentacles of my scoly and acans. They loved them too!
What's best, is they are so clean and totally consumed.. No fine particles or random food pieces floating around the tank.
These have now become my defacto standard for feeding my fish and LPS. Fish are loving it, LPS are loving it, and my filter/skimmer/sand bed are appreciating the lack of detritus and uneaten food.
What I wonder then is why nobody talks about these? They seem to be the ultimate fish food, and the store up to a month live in the fridge.