What Vitamin Supplements do You Use?

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What Supplements do You Use?

  • Vitachem

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • Zoe

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other - describe

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • None

    Votes: 10 52.6%
  • Total voters
    19
I soak shrimp in a mix of vitachem and garlic. I let it sit for an hour or more and then freeze.
The shrimp very noticeably changes colour, and the left over liquid from soaking I just poor into the sump of my P tank, makes them go nuts for an hour or two lol
 
A friend of mine soaks his fillets, shrimp, bloodworms and whole smelt in a vitamin mix. He has nothing but healthy fish and all look great. He uses a dropper to inject the liquid into the belly of the smelt before feeding it to his gars. I am going to start soaking my foods for my fish. It all soaks in because they all change color to the vitamin mixes color and don't loose that color before they get eaten by his rays.

As to how much gets washed away. I don't think it as much as you think. If it was to happen this way soaking foods in garlic to get fish to eat them would be pointless if it all or mostly washed away.

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About 10 years ago I had a friend with a peacock bass that wouldn't wean off of live goldfish. He injected one goldfish every few days with Kent Zoe and it was the most beautiful bass I have seen to this day.

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Guess this is one of those topics I will just have to decide for myself on. LOL Don't think there is a clear winner here. :/
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A clear winner with regards to what? I too have used vitachem when feeding frozen food to piscivores that could not be trained to eat pellets, no one is arguing that doing so is a very good idea. But adding liquid vitamins to your tank water, or supplementing when one is already feeding a premium pellet that contains an ample amount of vitamins & minerals, is a waste of money. The pellets that I feed contain FAR higher levels of vitamins & minerals than any liquid vitamin on the market.

Fleshy - I found that if one takes a paper towel to the food (prawn/tilapia/etc) to absorb the exterior moisture when the food thaws, and then soaks in vitachem for a few hours that you end up getting a better presoak. You get some leaching of the vitamins when they hit the water but the faster your fish consumes the flesh the less leaching takes place. I also know a few local guys who have injected frozen & live foods (such as superworms) with vitachem so zero leaching took place when the food was placed in the tank.
 
I've used vitachem almost exclusivey along with good husbandry to clear up many a HLLE in both fw and sw fish ( most people feed a poor diet ect to their fish then pawn them off on their local lfs... I use to save the ones I could) I found injecting a dead fish as a great way and/or soaking pellets like hikkari with them... I don't think you'de get much absortion from a dense pellet like NLS ( unneeded anyway as already pointed out) It has it's uses but Its not something I use daily or even regularly just when I feel the fish need a boost ( ie after a bout of ick or if I buy a "gem in the rough" that looks rough... lol) Its a great "boost"

when I "soak" pellets I will actually use a dropper and drop at a time hit each pellet and add more only when it's absorbed.. so by the time they are "soaked" there is little to no moisture at the bottom of the tray... and I let them dry up abit before feeding out.. it's a pretty long and time consuming process... I store extras in the fridge for a few days so i'm not doing it daily.. but it's a short term "treatment" not a regular thing.

How much and what they get excatly.. idk.. but it does seem to make a difference that just good husbandry alone doesn't.. or maybe its better to say it helps speed the recovery process up.
 
You get plenty of absorption from NLS pellets, it just takes longer to get there. And yes, if I was feeding Hikari, which typically contains 75-250 mg/kg of Vitamin C (depending on the formula) I'd probably soak my pellets in a liquid vitamin as well, at least when fish are ill or under stress.
 
Okay. This makes more sense now. :)

I feed NLS pellets and frozen Hikari foods, but its good to know that soaking in a vitamin supplement is good for ill fish.

I have neons that are breeding now and if I get enough of them, I might start using them as feeders when my cichlids get large enough. The neons use to live with my cichlids, but all of the cichlids were too small to really consider them food (though I think one or both of my super red sevs started to munch on them as I was losing a few every day until I moved them to their own 20). Is there a special area I should inject and is injecting live or dead better? If dead is better (I assume it is since a dead fish can't thrash and possibly hurt the cichlid), how would I cull them without damaging the body or possibly causing harm to the cichlids I would feed them to?


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