Nutramar Ova

[ca1ore]

Thank goodness for this food. I have lost track of the number of fish I have bought that would take nothing else initially. Add to that list a recently acquired Potters Wrasse who turns her nose up at everything else.

 

[snorvich]

Potters wrasse should eat PE mysis and will for sure eat copepods. The other "magic food" is capelin fish roe.

 

[nonimmigrant]

Thank goodness for this food. I have lost track of the number of fish I have bought that would take nothing else initially. Add to that list a recently acquired Potters Wrasse who turns her nose up at everything else.

Amen to that. I buy it by the box load every time I go back to the US.

 

[Dmorty217]

Thank goodness for this food. I have lost track of the number of fish I have bought that would take nothing else initially. Add to that list a recently acquired Potters Wrasse who turns her nose up at everything else.

Where are you getting it? Dr foster and smith is out till the end of the month and Nutramar says they are having problems getting the ova because of warmer temps? I have been looking everywhere online and locally for the last 2 wks. All online places I have seen say out of stock

 

[Brando457]

+1 where did you get it

 

[ca1ore]

Potters wrasse should eat PE mysis and will for sure eat copepods. The other "magic food" is capelin fish roe.

Interesting, have not tried the latter. For now, at least, PE Mysis (or Hikari, for that matter) has not been a winner.

 

[ca1ore]

Where are you getting it? Dr foster and smith is out till the end of the month and Nutramar says they are having problems getting the ova because of warmer temps? I have been looking everywhere online and locally for the last 2 wks. All online places I have seen say out of stock

I bought a couple of flats locally a number of months ago. I generally only use it as a 'desperation' first food, so it lasts a good long time. I did not realize it was unavailable, bummer.

 

[Dmorty217]

Yes bummer indeed, I have two baby Regals on the way and would like to have some of this just in case

 

[lcs]

Great food for mandarins as well!

 

[snorvich]

Great food for mandarins as well!

Yes it is. I stock extra flats in my freezer (Chinese food for me, and fish food for the fish) so that the vagaries of supply don't affect me all that much.

 

[rssjsb]

Steve - where to you get capelin fish roe? I've seen you recommending it before, but don't think I've ever seen it for sale.

 

[MondoBongo]

looks like Capelin is a type of fish, who's roe is used a lot in sushi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capelin

so probably from any good sushi supplier? that is convenient. i can feed myself, and my fish.

 

[Rybren]

Be careful when buying Capelin roe. IME, it is usually dyed and frozen with a number of different preservatives and additives. I have not been able to get any "clean" stuff.

 

[snorvich]

looks like Capelin is a type of fish, who's roe is used a lot in sushi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capelin

so probably from any good sushi supplier? that is convenient. i can feed myself, and my fish.

My local fish store sells it. Plus you can always rinse what you get from Sushi stores. I have used that and never had a problem either. My other "unusual" food is live black worms.

 

[Baldguy]

DFS carries it. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produ...=pla&catargetid=530005150000090883&cadevice=c

 

[sreefs]

Thank goodness for this food. I have lost track of the number of fish I have bought that would take nothing else initially. Add to that list a recently acquired Potters Wrasse who turns her nose up at everything else.

Don't hold your breath that they will have it in stock by the end of the month, it was pushed back twice. Like someone said they are having trouble harvesting the ova because of temps. It is great stuff to get fish starting to feed.

 

[small alien]

My LFS has been out for months which I believe probably lead to the demise of one of my pipes. It's really hard to tell when pipes are losing weight.

 

[Buzzword]

I will heartily second the OP's statement, NutraMar ova (aka fish crack) is my number one go to food for picky eaters. Have gotten all my leopard wrasses eating it when they would eat nothing else, including a Kuiteri. Have gotten all anthias eating this as well. Been my got to food for 8 years.
Yeah it has been hard to get due to the temps and unable to get the shrimp roe for a while, but my LFS has gotten it in again in the last 2 weeks.

 

[ca1ore]

I like that! Buddy of mine refers to brine shrimp as 'fish bacon' so maybe that makes Ova 'fish crack'. I have also found mixing other foods in with it helps to get tricky fish to eat something else. Ova must have a pretty strong smell to the fish. My Potters Leopard is now eating mysis, LRF, etc. Steve was right.

 

[sreefs]

I like that! Buddy of mine refers to brine shrimp as 'fish bacon' so maybe that makes Ova 'fish crack'. I have also found mixing other foods in with it helps to get tricky fish to eat something else. Ova must have a pretty strong smell to the fish. My Potters Leopard is now eating mysis, LRF, etc. Steve was right.

I soak pellets in the thawed Ova and the fish start to eat them with no problems.