What are you feeding your fish?

snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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I think a lot of people get confused with all of the choices out there and end up sticking with what they know when it comes to food. Fish flakes usually win out since most new hobbyists have freshwater backgrounds.

What are you feeding your fish? How much are you feeding your fish? How many times a day do you feed? When during the day cycle do you feed?

What are some signs your aren't feeding enough fish food? What are some signs your feeding too much? Tell me some experiences and if you do anything in particular or out of the ordinary.

If you have recipes, post them and share!
 
1guydude

1guydude

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@winco they have frozen seafood in a bag. I just throw it in a mini chopper and add vitality or garlic or watever else.

Rods food lately because I won a bunch in a raffle :)
Feeding time is whenever I feel. Signs of not feeding enough would be skinny fish lol and dirty water may indicate over feeding.
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jay0705

jay0705

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Mysis, spirulina brine, cyclopese, new life spectrum pellets, live pods, omega one flake, sea weed.
thin fish not enough food. Bristle worms come out of every rock and crevices maybe too much lol
 
pegasus

pegasus

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I feed Mysis Spirulilna flakes early morning and in the evening, and only what they will eat in a couple of minutes. I throw in an occasional feeding of rinsed and strained frozen Mysis. I don't use NLS pellets, as my fish ignore them for the most part, and they end up stuck in my overflow strainers. Crabs like them, but I don't intentionally feed my crabs, so I don't use them anymore. My wife will occasionally drop some in the tanks if I'm not around at feeding time... grrrr!!! On rarer occasions, while feeding my filter feeders, I allow a few globs of my marine snow/PhytoPlex blend out of the turkey baster. Many of my fish love to eat it, so I give them a little treat. They're all fat and healthy, so I know they're getting plenty to eat. My wife was bad about over feeding, but by constant nagging and pointing out the algae outbreak as a direct result of her actions, she's backed off from her overly generous feedings. Although... she still doesn't believe me when I tell her they'll be fine if we miss the evening feeding. I'm still working on that...
 
silverado61

silverado61

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Frozen brine, Cyclopeez, marine blend, marine boom, newly hatched baby brine, sometimes enriched flake when I feel lazy.
I feed once a day at 9:30. I really can't over feed because I've got shrimp and serpent stars to clean everything up that hits the sand or rocks.
I target feed my corals brine shrimp, reef boom or reef pellets three times a week.
 
geridoc

geridoc

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I feed the widest variety of foods I can get - clam, squid, marine cuisine, enriched brine shrimp, etc. In addition, I buy fish remnants at the fish store (mostly heads and tails), peel off the meat, throw it in a blender with a few shrimp, rinsed clams and scallops and some dried oatmeal, blend and freeze in sheets. I feed small amounts several times a day and don't worry about waste since I have 2 serpent stars and some hermits in my 220.
 
trigger40

trigger40

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i don't haft to worry about over feeding my trigger will eat everything i give him, lol i usually stop when he looks like he is going to pop or starts throwing food back up and then eating it again. but i give my fish a veggie clip in the morning. i give three different types of algae and it changes every day. in the evening i feed mysis, wild caught shrimp i catch, silver sides, squid, freeze dried shrimp, dwarf angel formula, and ghost shrimp as a treat every now and then.
 
jay0705

jay0705

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trigger40 said:
i don't haft to worry about over feeding my trigger will eat everything i give him, lol i usually stop when he looks like he is going to pop or starts throwing food back up and then eating it again. but i give my fish a veggie clip in the morning. i give three different types of algae and it changes every day. in the evening i feed mysis, wild caught shrimp i catch, silver sides, squid, freeze dried shrimp, dwarf angel formula, and ghost shrimp as a treat every now and then.
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Does this include tank mates buddy? Lol
 
ClaptonsGhost

ClaptonsGhost

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Frozen mysis in the morning and evening, a sprinkling of pellets once or twice a day, and a 1" x 1" sheet of Nori that I keep soaked in water so that it sinks when I put it in the tank. Formula One a few times a week, and an occasional cube of Brine because everybody needs candy once in a while.
 
john suh

john suh

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silverado61 said:
Go easy on the salmon. It's high in fat and could cause intestinal problems.
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Thanks for the fyi. That said, just stopped by an Asian market earlier, these places are a smorgasbord for large carnivorous saltwater fish like triggers, puffers, etc. In their frozen seafood aisle. Picked up a bag of pre cut seafood mix of clam, scallop, shrimp, squid, octopus for just $3.99, this baggy will last for months.
 
Bryce E

Bryce E

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For the fish:
-Frozen Mysis
-Frozen Brine
-Frozen Bloodworms
-Mysis/vitimin enriched flakes
-Pellets
-Occasion fresh fish chunks
-Occasional Seaweed/algae sheets
-Occasional addition of live amphipods/copepods
-Occasional live baby brine

I mix it up on what I give them and I feed twice a day. I'm very particular on how I feed, I always rinse my frozen food in ro water and I don't dump food in all at once and have them chasing it around blowing everywhere in the rocks. Once in a great while to create scraps for the crabs or when feeding corals. But typically I will drop in tiny amounts that the fish get right away then I slowly add a little more and do that till it's gone.

Crab cuisine pellets and regular fish pellets and algae wafers for the crabs on occasion + they're eating on everything else I feed the fish

For the corals
They eat a lot of stuff I'm putting in the tank already as well. The only other thing I'm adding specifically for them is Microvert. I noticed that my Kenya tree and Goniopora especially love the excess debris/snow that blows offf of these marine algae/protien wafers that I've got. As the hermit crabs feed on it a bunch blows around the tank and they seem to really respond to it. I'll have to see what it even is I think they are "stick on the glass" algae wafers for freshwater...lol
 
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