After a LONG battle of some flesh eating bacteria and intestinal worms I think I have finally got my chromis life back on track. Though the issue is now it is very skinny with a slightly sunken belly. I feed on an autofeeder cyclops 3 times a day (as that's the only dry food they eat). When I get home at 6 I feed either PE mysis or fresh scallops soaked in selcon. Then they get another small feeding or cyclops at 9pm before bed. What else can I do to make them gain weight? I do feed BBS but it's a supper pain to keep hatching them every 3 days. I have tried to take newly hatched BS and freeze them in cubes and feed that but they wont eat it. They like to hunt.
Need to fatten fish up
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Hal
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I think you might have some bad info on blackworms. They are great for fish.
acrohead500ppm
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The amount of selcon actually getting "soaked up" by frozen foods is probably minuscule. It was really intended for use with freeze dried foods/ pellets.
I take ORA glo pellets, cyclops flake and OSI spirulina flake and soak in Selecon to basically make a thick mush, I then take rinsed mysis, Ovamar eggs, and fresh shucked whole oysters and blend them with the selcon/food mush in a blender, using the 30 seconds pulse, 30 seconds ice bath routine.
Then I freeze it all in a gallon zip lock lying between two old textbooks, comes out nice and flat.
I also only use selcon/vita-chem with pellets. IMO it's a much better way to get the liquid into the food than just soaking frozen in it.
I also find pellets (they make some really small ones for small fish) are a great way to get skinny fish fattened up. Assuming they'll eat pellets, of course
Blackworms are very nutritious, but a bit fatty, so for healthy, fish with normal appetites, I personally would only offer them here and there, not as a staple.
My fish also really enjoy LRS Fish Frenzy, as a nice frozen mixture, along with PE Mysis as well.
I also find pellets (they make some really small ones for small fish) are a great way to get skinny fish fattened up. Assuming they'll eat pellets, of course
Blackworms are very nutritious, but a bit fatty, so for healthy, fish with normal appetites, I personally would only offer them here and there, not as a staple.
My fish also really enjoy LRS Fish Frenzy, as a nice frozen mixture, along with PE Mysis as well.
laga77
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You could not be more wrong. Bloodworms are not nutritious. Live black worms and live white worms are the best food you can feed.
Dmorty217
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Feeding a fish nothing but black worms couldn't be healthy long term for any marine fish. My info is good. Also feeding live foods to a fish hat you want to eat prepared foods is working in reverse. Desperate times call for desperate measures I understand
laga77
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Never said feed them nothing but black worms. You said black worms are not nutritious which is false. Please explain how it is working backwards when feeding live foods whether it is worms or clams has been shown to be a very successful way to maintain fish over time. What do you consider prepared foods?
I think he just meant that generally, feeding live foods to a finicky fish may keep the fish from moving on to prepared/frozen/dry foods. Correct me if I am wrong though
Dmorty217
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I think he just meant that generally, feeding live foods to a finicky fish may keep the fish from moving on to prepared/frozen/dry foods. Correct me if I am wrong though
Thank you Peter. :beer:
Because I think it is a part of a varied diet, especially handy for when I don't have the time to prepare and feed a variety of frozen foods.
And as I already stated:
I also only use selcon/vita-chem with pellets. IMO it's a much better way to get the liquid into the food than just soaking frozen in it.
I also find pellets (they make some really small ones for small fish) are a great way to get skinny fish fattened up. Assuming they'll eat pellets, of course
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acrohead500ppm
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Quality dry foods are much more concentrated in nutrients than frozen foods. Awesome for the fish, but not so much for your phos and nitrate levels.
nelsonkearstin
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Can't say this is great advice seems how idk the chemistry or what not but, I've fed mine fully cooked frozen flounder. I cut it up really really fine. My fish are pretty fat. It's just a matter of getting pieces small enough then getting chromis to eat. I soak mine in garlic to get them more attracted to it. Lil goes a long way!! My smaller fish only eat like 2 lil chucks. I'd feed once a day.
acrohead500ppm
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Like as in the fully cooked frozen fillets in a bag ? or frozen raw/ you cooked them?
If its the latter you are fine just stay away from seasonings and stuff. However, if its precooked frozen fillets you are buying DO NOT feed this your fish/reef as its going to be loaded with preservatives and junk.
nelsonkearstin
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Hmmmmm yaa cooked, frozen in a bag... now I'd like to look more into these preservitives your speaking of... never really thought of that. Figured it be fine. (That's why I'm here!) My fresh caught fish I'd freeze and try to use, they're not fans of...
