Nutrition

[chefthomasr]

I would like to start culturing live feed for our tank. So far I have built a culture station and have 2 separate colonies of copepods. I would like to grow phyto to use for the culture station in addition to having brine and rotifers.

I plan to still feed pre-packaged feeds but I would like to supplement them only so often if possible. I don't want to be missing any key nutritional elements.

I see suggestions to have vitamins B12, C, D, and E, Omega 3, spirulina (which the sea veggies have), and gut loaded brine in the sticky about fish nutrition.

What other vitamins are necessary for healthy fish? What is the brine gut 'loaded' with? Am I missing anything? I don't have access to bottles of the feed and supplements listed in the fish nutrition sticky. So I can't compare ingredients.

Thanks as always for any advice.
Jenny

 

[White Tiger]

You don't have to feed live foods to get great nutritional values for you fish. By feeding many different types of food you can provide great nutrition to your fish. As long as you do not feed a couple different types of food, you fish will get proper nutrition.

 

[chefthomasr]

I don't want to feed live food for nutritional value necessarily. Honestly I just want to culture my own food b/c I like to grow things. I like the whole DIY concept. But I don't want to leave anything out nutritionally if you know what I mean.

I am curious b/c everyone I've talked with or articles etc. that I've read said the fish need a balanced diet with lots of variety. Does that really mean we don't know that much about fish nutrition and we are just hoping we have it all covered with the variety we feed?