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

I put mysis in my Kale...

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and then I put raw shrimp inside Kale inside a Nori roll ... :D

It's a hit!
 
Kale is LOADED with vitamins and minerals! Namely vitamins A, B2, C, Mg, Ca, K, Fe... And that vitamin U factor in cruciferous veggies. Your fish won't be getting cancer lol. Great choice for an experiment.
Your fish look super healthy already Karimwassef!
What was the yellow Wrasse recovering from?
 
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...
 
Thank you! Awesome testimonial for using kale. If I had an emaciated tang I would certainly go the kale route for rehabilitation. I will toss a little in my tank before I prepare my kale and sausage soup ;)
 
Makes it easier to convince my girls to eat their greens too :)

I think the form that the food is presented in also matters. I've found that a little challenge actually gets fish excited... Not stressful challenge in aggression when fighting for food, but a healthy "reward" based challenge - like a toy.

I've been making these "burrito" or "sushi roll" structures in my plastic mesh feeding cage. The cage keeps everything from falling apart and rotting, so it was necessary before making these complex food builds.

So in a roll, I'll start with a full sheet of nori, and put some raw shrimp sitting in a bed of flake food drizzled with Selcon. Then, I put a layer of kale and then frozen mysis with garlic X. Cover it with another sheet of nori and then roll it up with folded ends. Then I put the "sausage" looking roll in the feeder mesh..

The rabbit fish usually goes first - ripping up the nori. Yellow tangs just eat his debris. Other tangs rush in to get at the nori and kale. Then the wrasses and trigger smell the raw shrimp and mysis. The anthias see flecks of mysis and flake food... Then dart in for the little morsels.

Trigger waits for the shrimp to be exposed... Almost impatient as the tangs eat through the vegetation to expose the flesh inside. Once the mysis starts floating, the omnivores go for it. Once the shrimp treasure is visible, the trigger goes in!

It's like a community of cooperative eaters...
 
You just described how it transpired exactly as I interpreted your feeding video lol. I agree. Feeding time justvseems more gratifying to them when they "work" for their food.

I add larger pieces of food strategically to keep my fish hogs occupied while I feed corals. Occasionally I throw a piece of green algae, or chunk of banana for them to chase around the tank. Today it was frozen mango.
 
Tried spinach and also got a potent reaction. I was recording it when my surge kicked in and they freaked out. I don't like to interrupt my surge events so I let it go. When I came back, it was gone. I added some more over night.

I'll see if anything's left to record today.

I do think some veggies are more "efficient". The kale and nori tend to hold together well in the mesh. The spinash leaves were smaller and thinner so they made a bigger mess of little pieces of green leaf.

You said yours like frozen mango? Ripe or more green? Anyone else try this?
 
tried collard greens.. ok, but not as good as kale

so far - using frenzy as a taste indicator - KALE (1), SPINACH (2), COLLARD GREENS (3)

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figured out how to post videos?

Here's the latest with just Nori stuffed with shrimp and mysis (boring, sure)... and the passion is intense.

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I apparently have a Google account. However I cannot setup a YouTube channel on my phone and have to use my stupid computer. Right now I'm too busy with spring cleaning and work to really sit down and try to figure that out. I will get to it "tomorrow".

I fed kale to fish by wedging it and a spinach leaf to the magfloat. It scared them for hours lol. Then cut it up into small pieces with my nails. They sure gobbled it up while it was floating around! They obviously like the taste of it.
BTW, they prefer RIPE mango. This batch we bought for our shakes is not as sweet as the last one. They're not as interested in it only when some ripe banana hit the water.

There is something to be said about fish and their learning curve. I'm glad we're all sharing this info. I certainly would have given up on the kale if I hadn't seen Karimwassef's video of his fish eating it with such relish!
My point is, with new foods, they first have to go through the process of ruling out a possible threat if it's PRESENTED in a way they're not FAMILIAR WITH. Hmm, my kids are like that, too.
 
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true. I find that putting it in close proximity with something they are familiar with also gets them over the initial fear.

So, veggies inside nori works better the first time.
 
Dang just today I was wondering how my fish would like some saltine crackers, like fish in the rivers do. Now you all have me thinking I wasn't so off my rocker on human consumption items. Very interesting read. Will be tagging along.
 
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