What are you feeding your fish?

[nonstophoops]

Cool thanks for the info guys, btw I forgot to add that I have the garlic extreme from kent. I use it a few times, should I use it every feeding?

Also how many times a day/ how much do you feed during one feeding?

Also I'm going to be looking at some foods labeled and then I'll get back to the thread. Also what fleshy makes, is it for sale or is it a recipie?

Also last but not least, dosing copepods? Would they thrive in the tank until eaten? Also does anyone know a site on how to keep brine shrimp long term? I use to hatch at baby brine shrimp, but then in a few days theyed perish. I would like to keep them until they turn into adults.

Sorry for the numerous questions

I feed about 4 times a day, but I consider that quite heavy and I have some fat fish. I have anthias and they need to be fed frequently. Depending on what you stock it will vary, but more small meals is always better than a large one. Large preds only need to be fed every couple days, most fish at least twice a day, and some of the more active fish as much as possible.

I feed small amounts at a time and watch them eat and then add more. Putting a lot of food in the tank at once just causes some to sink to the bottom and rot.

"Fleshy makes" Where is my credit? lol Just playing, we don't sell it. Shipping it because it needs to stay frozen would be expensive. If you want to make something like it you should just get as many ingredients of fresh and frozen stuff that you can think of and one ingredient at a time blend/food process it up to the appropriate size and put into a mixing bowl. Do every ingredient and then add vitamins, garlic, and what ever else you want in there that doesn't need to be blended. Mix it up and then put it into ziplock bags, press it to a 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick, and freeze. WARNING: This is messy! Good thing Flesh's mom is a nice lady

To keep brine shrimp long term they need to be fed. Most people don't feed them after hatching and they slowly lose all nutritional value. Keeping food for brine shrimp is not easy, they need to eat rotifers, which need to eat phytoplankton. So you would need to culture phytoplankton constantly, then feed some phyto to the rotifers, then feed the rotifers to the brine shrimp. If the brine shrimp are fed they do have good nutritional value. The reason frozen brine shrimp have no nutritional value is the freezing process breaks their membrane(or whatever you wanna call it) and leak all the good stuff out, leaving little more than their shell really.

 

[Pazzoman]

I feed about 4 times a day, but I consider that quite heavy and I have some fat fish. I have anthias and they need to be fed frequently. Depending on what you stock it will vary, but more small meals is always better than a large one. Large preds only need to be fed every couple days, most fish at least twice a day, and some of the more active fish as much as possible.

I feed small amounts at a time and watch them eat and then add more. Putting a lot of food in the tank at once just causes some to sink to the bottom and rot.

"Fleshy makes" Where is my credit? lol Just playing, we don't sell it. Shipping it because it needs to stay frozen would be expensive. If you want to make something like it you should just get as many ingredients of fresh and frozen stuff that you can think of and one ingredient at a time blend/food process it up to the appropriate size and put into a mixing bowl. Do every ingredient and then add vitamins, garlic, and what ever else you want in there that doesn't need to be blended. Mix it up and then put it into ziplock bags, press it to a 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick, and freeze. WARNING: This is messy! Good thing Flesh's mom is a nice lady

To keep brine shrimp long term they need to be fed. Most people don't feed them after hatching and they slowly lose all nutritional value. Keeping food for brine shrimp is not easy, they need to eat rotifers, which need to eat phytoplankton. So you would need to culture phytoplankton constantly, then feed some phyto to the rotifers, then feed the rotifers to the brine shrimp. If the brine shrimp are fed they do have good nutritional value. The reason frozen brine shrimp have no nutritional value is the freezing process breaks their membrane(or whatever you wanna call it) and leak all the good stuff out, leaving little more than their shell really.

Thanks for the info lol, sorry bout not crediting you I thought he only made it

Now Im gonna go look at my freezer and see what I can make, if I throw new life spectrum into the mix, would it lose it's value when frozen? Thanks also if I was to purchase a dersa clam and mushrooms in the future would I need to purchase any specific foods like something called "Coral Smoothie"

Thanks Everybody

 

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To keep brine shrimp long term they need to be fed. Most people don't feed them after hatching and they slowly lose all nutritional value. Keeping food for brine shrimp is not easy, they need to eat rotifers, which need to eat phytoplankton. So you would need to culture phytoplankton constantly, then feed some phyto to the rotifers, then feed the rotifers to the brine shrimp. If the brine shrimp are fed they do have good nutritional value. The reason frozen brine shrimp have no nutritional value is the freezing process breaks their membrane(or whatever you wanna call it) and leak all the good stuff out, leaving little more than their shell really.

I have never used rots for raising brine I just use phyto for them and it has always worked for me. But I would agree live can be more nutritious because you decide what they are fed and enriched with.

Thanks for the info lol, sorry bout not crediting you I thought he only made it

Now Im gonna go look at my freezer and see what I can make, if I throw new life spectrum into the mix, would it lose it's value when frozen? Thanks also if I was to purchase a dersa clam and mushrooms in the future would I need to purchase any specific foods like something called "Coral Smoothie"

Thanks Everybody

The NLS will be fine if frozen. I can't remember what all the coral smoothie has in it but the mushrooms I am sure would appreciate it and if it has phyto the clam would too but I would get something like phyto feast for the clam.

 

[nonstophoops]

I have never used rots for raising brine I just use phyto for them and it has always worked for me. But I would agree live can be more nutritious because you decide what they are fed and enriched with.


The NLS will be fine if frozen. I can't remember what all the coral smoothie has in it but the mushrooms I am sure would appreciate it and if it has phyto the clam would too but I would get something like phyto feast for the clam.

Interesting, I haven't actually done any raising of brine, but from others that have that is the way I had been told. If they eat and live off the phyto, why waste your time with another step!

+1 to the feeding.

I will say, why even freeze the NLS? It is so easy to add to the mixture after you thaw it anyway. Plus, you don't need to feed it at every meal, so you could feed NLS once a day and the mixture once a day. (or more for both, whatever you are planning).

Most mushrooms don't really need to be fed. They multiple like crazy anyways....most people can get rid of them fast enough in their tanks.

 

[3000gt]

I feed raw shrimp, haraki gold pellets, and sticks for my: GTS, and jardini

 

[Pazzoman]

Hey thanks for the replies also what is NLS? Mushrooms multiply like crazy? Cool I'm very interested in the Red Mushrooms, do they need to be fed or are they hardy enough to get what they need from the lights?

 

[Pazzoman]

Sorry lol I re read the thread...i know what nls is

 

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Red mushrooms will grow like crazy without any help at all.

 

[Pazzoman]

Cool cant wait to get me some red mushrooms, they'll brighten my tank up nicely!
Also I've been looking at the phtofeast, and it brought me to thier website. Tey seem to have very interesting products if you guys wanna check them out just type in phyto feast, and a site should come up called "reef nutrition". Also does anyon eknow where mandarins are sold fed on prepared foods? If not I'll wait another year in hope of copepods to grow in my tank.

 

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They do have a very nice line of products. I have used most of them and have been very happy with them. And there is no place that I know that has mandarins on prepared foods on a regular basis. Divers den offers then occasionally but they usually sell within minutes of being posted. How big is your tank?