Twin Terrors- How often/amount for feeding

[Woogiekids]

Anyone have any insight on how often to feed the Sea Goblins? I swear they're begging around the clock, both on frozen krill currently. They've eaten twice today already. Anything else I could feed them that would be beneficial to them? More filling? lol

Feed Me!

 

[Monkeyfish]

Awesome fish.

I wouldn't make krill the main part of their diet. Try pieces of silverside, squid and clam.

 

[jarrod13]

Two to three times a week max. Even though they're begging they probably already have food still in their belly that hasn't digested yet. These fish barely move and have very slow metabolisms, so they dont require nearly as many feedings as say an anthias who doesn't stop swimming all day.

I never use krill, there's just way too many better options. I always use fresh seafood from the grocery store. I live right next to one so there's no reason for me to use frozen. One feeding day I just go in a get one or two shrimps (raw uncooked), fish, scallops, or squid... Stuff like that.

They look awesome btw!!!!

 

[jarrod13]

Double post

 

[Woogiekids]

That's a good idea. I'll hit up the grocery store. Thanks!

 

[namxas]

We regularly see 6 oz fillets of salmon, shark, tuna, etc for $4 -$5. Perfect sizes for a few feedings. We cut them into 1.5" - 2" chunks, lay them flat on a cutting board, let them freeze, and place them into ziplocs. Then we take a piece out, let it thaw, and cut it into appropriate bite sizes.

 

[wlyon]

I agree with namax, a grocery store is always a good idea and helped me drop my feeding bill significantly when he suggested it to me. Clam is also a good nutritional meal that I feed a lot to my predators and can be easily cut to the proper feeding size.

 

[Woogiekids]

Got a fillet and some shrimp today. Hopefully it fills them up better!

Do you guys soak in any additives? I always soak in garlic, but was thinking of adding some sort of vitamin? Keep in mind I'm also feeding 7 fuzzy dwarfs, 4 waspish, 2 leaf fish, an angler and a GDM, so any additives specific to them would help. Selcon? Vitamarin?

 

[namxas]

Selcon is awfully oily, and many of the items we feed out tend to be oily as well (salmon, tuna, etc.). One thing we notice is that depending on what we've been feeding our fish, some of the tanx try to get a bit of an "oil slick" on the water surface. However, with proper turbulance, it's less of a problem.

Renee uses Vit. C, B6 and B12 as a supplement every so often. We've heard good things about Vit. M, and she's researching that now.

 

[jarrod13]

All those in the same tank? If so what size is it?

 

[Woogiekids]

Gosh no. We have three tanks.

 

[sdsocal]

All those in the same tank? If so what size is it?

That would be interesting. However, we have multiple tanks. We do have a harem of Dwarfs in one and a pair in another. 75g and a 34g. We also have a 150g 48x30x24 that is in the works.

 

[nateqt]

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productdetailas.asp?did=5&pid=2810&cid=314

is what I use as an additive

 

[namxas]

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productdetailas.asp?did=5&pid=2810&cid=314

is what I use as an additive

The first three ingredients are Salmon oil, cod liver oil, and menhaden oil...do you ever have any trouble with the oil slick thing? Just curious...

It does seem to have lots of good ingredients in it. Does it have a shelf life? I wonder because it seems like they'd need a good way to preserve the dead phyto cells, altho IIRC Vit. C is sometimes used as a food preservative, so maybe that's it.

 

[nateqt]

it does give a somewhat oil slick but i have a power head pointing at the surface and it eventually gets into my over flow