Vitamin Supplements..which one?

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Jesseliu13

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Been feeding my rays frozen food for years now. some even pellets, though i have stopped due to it being very messy. I also have been researching thiamines and B1 deficiencies in certain foods. I have been feeding Swai, Shrimp, squid, and Tilapia. Sometimes i'll throw in some random foods like Searobin fillets or bluefish fillets just to save some cash. But i found out that swai, shrimp and squid have decently high levels of thiamins. To counter this i was thinking of adding some Vitamin supplements.

The main 3 i have seen so far are seachem Nourish, Vitachem, and Kent Zoe.

Does anyone use these? or have any recommendations? I was planning on getting a bottle of the best one and just dump it into next month's food prep when i start cutting and refreezing the seafood medley I prepare for my rays.

These are mostly for my large marbled motoro group.
 
Vitachem is good and helps intice appetite... Mazuri shark and ray tabs are the best tho... there a must for any marine shark sp.... its surprising there not standard for freshwater rays aswell. Only downfall is they have a shelf life. Id try and do a group order if u can. Ull never go through it all in time... I used to use vitachem in my daily regime, can just as easily stuff ur prepared foods with a good pellet feed tho.
 
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wednesday13 said:
Vitachem is good and helps intice appetite... Mazuri shark and ray tabs are the best tho... there a must for any marine shark sp.... its surprising there not standard for freshwater rays aswell. Only downfall is they have a shelf life. Id try and do a group order if u can. Ull never go through it all in time... I used to use vitachem in my daily regime, can just as easily stuff ur prepared foods with a good pellet feed tho.
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That sounds expensive. Lol but nothing is cheap in this hobby when you got rays. You can't really skimp out on their food :/ or you get thiamines. I may want to stick with the brands still somewhat local to me. I heard nourish is extremely watered down. I was planning on grabbing 12 lbs of tilapia, 4 lbs of shrimp and 8 lbs of swai, chopping them up and dumping them all into a 5 gallon bucket and mix it with a bottle of nourish or seachem.
 
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I use vitachem just about every feeding of frozen, which is every 2 days. Maybe it's way overkill, so I'm probably gonna try to move it to every other feeding.
 
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Works good just to premix with your frozen food when you prepare it. Freeze everything in flattened out sandwich bags so you can just break a piece off to thaw at feeding time
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yep! thats what i normally do! I normally do about 2-3 months worth of food at a time... and for 15$ a bottle. one bottle should be enough hopefully.
 
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Seachem nourish does not contain a direct vitamin b1 AKA thiamine supplement. It does however contain spirulina which is a Good source but it doesn't clearly say the amounts. Vitachem has a thiamine supplement mixed in. Nourish provides it through the spirulina content which makes it difficult to know the specific amount and if it's enough to offset the thiaminaise. I suspect it is because everything front Seachem is quality and thoroughly researched.

I make a similar seafood medley. I use nourish one batch, then Vitachem next batch, then no additives next batch, and repeat.

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