What do you feed your tank?

[tyler91913]

My fish (2 ocellaris, yellow tang, hippo tang, striped damsel) are currently eating the food they came with, which is a variety of pre-packaged store foods (frozen shrimp cubes, dried seaweed strips, veg-heavy pellets, protein-heavy pellets, and garlic-flavored flakes). I was also told to give them a leaf of romaine every day or two, whcih they love (well, all except the damsel--she sulks in the corner when the lettuce clip comes in). They've been on this diet for at least a year, and look healthy, but I'd love to spoil them with some fresh foods or a seafood mix. I know clubs sometimes have group food preparation meetings--do we do anything like that? Or is there some awesome recipe you know of that I could look into? What do you use?

 

[scolley]

Primarily Rod's Food Original Blend, twice a day. But also occasionally supplement with Cyclop-eeze Freezerbar, PE Mysis shrimp, sliver sides for my anenomes, and Reef Pearls.

 

[tyler91913]

Cool--I hadn't heard of Rod's food or reef pearls. I'll order some of the Rod's for sure. It sounds delicious--from a fish's point of view at least.

 

[tyler91913]

Come on--surely Steve is not the only one who feeds his fish!

 

[BigFeesh]

Pellets,cyclops, and pe mysis

 

[tyler91913]

pe?

 

[rjinct]

New Life Spectrum pellets 2x a day and supplement Rod's Original (or home-made, rather club-made seafood blend) a few times a week.

 

[gdubs97]

pellets, mysis and brine, cyclopeeze bar and sometimes use the liquid vitamins by saturating the shrimp. I tried the romaine and every fish in my tank looked at me like I was crazy. lol they haven't gone near it since I put it in my tank a few hours ago.

 

[tyler91913]

haha, nice. the funny thing is that my fish ahve become so accustomed to romaine that they hardly show any interest in the seaweed. I usually end up taking out 70 percent of it the next day before it breaks down. The lettuce, on the other hand, is gone within a few hours. Even the clowns get in on it. I've also heard of people feeding their tangs things like broccoli and oranges, but I haven't been so bold.

rj--how do I get in on this club mix?

 

[RTMA]

Daily Spectrum Pellets with occasional PE Mysis, Cyclopeeze, Hikari Mysis and Nori.

The club mix is usually made at one of our club meetings. This year it was in January.

See this thread.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1944956&highlight=fish+food

We all donate items and then use a food processor to mix it all up. Place it in freezer bags and then distribute. I think this past year we made 20 1 quart bags and distributed it to our members who donated items.

 

[njudson]

NLS pellets and Rod's Herbivore mix once daily

 

[tyler91913]

Here's a little clip of my fish attacking a piece of romaine--they had skeletonized it in about an hour. I've never uploaded a youtube video before, so hopefully this works.

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pVomFFxTHDk?hl=en&fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[scolley]

The vid works great Tyler! Maybe you can show me how to do that sometime. Tank looks good too BTW. In particular those monti caps look quite happy. Good job!