Best Food

[Kput]

Hola!

I've been doing some reading, but I still seem to be all over the place in regards to what to feed my tank once it's set up and filled with fish.
For Saltwater I feed a combination of frozen foods, flakes, and pellets, and only used the highest quality / rated stuff I can find. I pre-mix it all together, separate it into jello shot containers, squeeze in some supplemental vitamins, and thaw one out every day for the tank.

I'd like to be able to do something similar for my tank once it's up and running, but I need the general consensus on best feeding practices for the following inhabitants..
A combination of flakes, wafers, pellets, frozen, etc.
I'd like a general consensus on what the best quality food is, and what all I can throw together into a container to feed daily. On the reef forums there are "recipies" that pop up all the time, so something like that could be helpful. The only thing I would like to avoid feeding is live earthworms, as I have a farm for my Axolotls, and adding this tank to the feeding would decimate my worm population.

Black Ghost Knife
Ropefish
African Butterflies
Dennison Barbs
Australian Rainbowfish
L-xxx Plecos
Long-Finned Syodontis Catfish
Leopard Leaf Fish


Thanks!

 

[cichlid tank]

i would feed sinking shrimp pellets and bloodworms to them

 

[cichlid tank]

i would feed sinking shrimp pellets and bloodworms to them

edit: for the butterflys coud eat crickets too

 

[Kput]

edit: for the butterflys coud eat crickets too

I do recall seeing that the african's like Crickets. Is live the best option? Will legs need to be removed for feeding?
I assume that going with freeze-dried crickets isn't healthy, as most freeze dried foods have lost most of their nutrients.

Bloodworms for my axolots is considered "mcdonalds" for food, as they are limited on nutrition for them.. is this the same for the fish? Or is there a difference again between dried/frozen/fresh in this category?

 

[Adamson]

Your fish do not need live food and I would strongly advise AGAINST any live feeding.

Just find a pellet you like, and go with that. New Life Spectrum makes high quality pellets that have a wide variety of ingredients to the point where the pellet is the only food your fish need, and only food they really should be eating.