Milk,honey, vinegar, vodka, bananas and o.j....?

karimwassef said:
His lower body was paralyzed. Apparently, this is common in wrasses but most don't recover. I think it's a spinal injury from jumping or diving or darting and hitting something solid like a glass wall.

You know I can't be 100% sure than the shrimp+Selcon was responsible for it healing. It may have also been the Kale? Wrasses don't eat vegetables/plant/algae- do they?

I picked Kale as the most nutritious green leafy vegetable. I was worried that my fish wouldn't try something new since they are a little pampered with 4 sheets of Nori a day.

The surprise was my big regal blue hippo tang. It's a very healthy fish but incredibly shy! It will not come out if it sees anyone in front of the tank. But once we go, it comes out to eat and interact. It's a good community fish. So the surprise was when it nibbled the kale and then went a little nuts for it. I was coming closer.. Saw it see me and expected the usual hiding behavior, but it didn't. It kept eating. It was watching me but there was no leaving that kale.

My daughter ran up and gasped that the blue tang isn't scared any more? She actually could be inches away and it kept eating. Once the kale was gone... She disappeared again :)

I guess if there's a taste test for fish, it would be boldness to feed...
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My yellow scroll wrasse eats nori alongside the yellow tang.
 
my three wrasses do too. I don't know if it's natural or motivated by the shrimp and mysis I hide inside the veggies. Yellow, Dusky and Melanurus will give it a try.
 
This is an awesome read! I can't wait to go home and give my fish a nice salad. Just not sure if they would prefer honey balsamic, ranch, or possible Caesar dressing since it has anchovies in it.
But on a real note this has been quite educational and I cant wait to give my fish some new food to diversify there diet even more
 
Very cool read! None of the veggie matter surprises me but some of the cocktails with Animno's and Vitamins kinda do. Ver interested, I hope this thread stays alive.

The veggies don't really surprise me because an LFS near me has always fed greens to their tangs. My whole life I've walked around fish shops and seen Broccoli, Kale, Corn, Carrot, Romaine lettuce, Nori, and all kinds of other crap on magnetic clips and watched tangs graze on stuff.

Let me tell ya, nothing looks more funny than watching a shoal of yellow tang graze on Corn Cobs lol. Their tangs were always the healthiest of their livestock by miles. Even when they came in emaciated and sickly.


j_mazzy said:
who introduced bananas or oranges? If you did how did you introduce them?
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I think they were blended with regular fish stuff (shrimp, clam, money, etc etc)
 
JonezNReef said:
This is an awesome read! I can't wait to go home and give my fish a nice salad. Just not sure if they would prefer honey balsamic, ranch, or possible Caesar dressing since it has anchovies in it.
But on a real note this has been quite educational and I cant wait to give my fish some new food to diversify there diet even more
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You could always give them a Clam, Shrimp, Cyclopeze, Rotifer blend with some cod oil for 'dressing' (I saw someone mention Cod oil).

Also in the wild a lot of predators love eating heart, kidney, liver, intestines. Basically what we would classify as offal or Organ meats.

Way back in the day my uncle kept large FW predators. His big ones were an African Lung Fish, Arowana, and an Electric Catfish (ugly yet cool beast, it looked like a beige sausage with whiskers). He often fed them Offal, beef heart and such. This was in the dark ages, before the internet was widely available. His fish looked amazing, great color, great energy levels, etc etc. He would also give them Crickets, Mealworms, and he fed his Arowana a feeder lizard once every month or so (for those who never visit reptile shops, feeder lizards are a thing)

If I were to try my hand at making fish/coral foods I'd hit up my local Seafood Market and buy up all the Organ Meats from large fish they get in whole (salmon, halibut, etc etc). Very likely they will give you the organ meats if you ask. And if you ask in advance and give the fish guys a small tip, they may remove the organs and put them on ice for you.
 
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uvijaya said:
I used to dose Amino for my SPS, didnt see much difference.
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Dosing Amino's is all the rage now, and lots of people see huge success. So maybe you either weren't lacking those Amino's in your system, or the dosage wasn't right, or those particular amino's weren't right.

Personally, I dose AcroPower and noticed positive results within a few days. Better colors, greater polyp extension. my Zoa's liked it too.
 
corals and always so hungry

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This is NO LED - just Metal Halide since the LED messes up my iphone vids.
 
Experimenting with Potassium sources

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An urchins love bananas?

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Here's an unfortunate result of feeding bananas. I was feeding algae as well (from my turf scrubber) to recycle nutrients in the tank. Now the fish aren't eating the algae!!!

I placed bananas and algae together and the banana disappeared, but the algae is being eaten very slowly...

Maybe bananas are more filling so after eating them, they're not as hungry? I don't know if they taste the difference?

Anyway, I'm off bananas until they eat all their algae. No desert until they finish their veggies.
 
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