Best diet

[bobsingh1]

What's the best diet for fish ? I have four damsels and one yellow tang. I feed them flakes in the morning and brine shrimp in the evening. Is that good enough ? Do these fish eat veggies ? if yes, what kind ?

 

[mainejo1]

My damsels enjoy freeze dried seaweed, or kelp that come in sheets just like the kind you get to make sushi. You can rubber-band a piece of it to a rock, or get a suction cup clip that your local fish store should have. I orginally got the kelp for my coral beauty, but my damsels like it equally well.

 

[kris]

The best diet is a varied one--flakes, the dried seaweed (your tang especially must have lots of veggies) frozen meat/green varieties and whatever else you might think looks good at the fishy grocery store.
(I must say I am particularly fond of the frozen dinners-and there are lots of different kinds to try)

 

[mgochay]

Originally posted by Kris:
The best diet is a varied one--flakes, the dried seaweed (your tang especially must have lots of veggies) frozen meat/green varieties and whatever else you might think looks good at the fishy grocery store.
(I must say I am particularly fond of the frozen dinners-and there are lots of different kinds to try)
The dried seaweed, is that the stuff you can get from a health food store?

 

[chessie]

Originally posted by MGochay:
The dried seaweed, is that the stuff you can get from a health food store?
You can buy 'Nori' (the seaweed wrapping for sushi) @ some grocery stores or speciality-type food stores OR you can buy all kinds of seaweed products through different pet/fish catalogs available (not sure if you can name them here).

 

[kris]

It used to be only in the specialty stores now all the local stores carry it in lots of different varieties (at least mine do)

 

[fishgirl]

my tang and damsels don't like Nori at all. this is the diet i give them:
TetraMarin flakes
Spirlina algea flakes
frozen brine shrimp
romain lettuce (for the tang, on a veggie clip)
frozen gelitin based dinners
All of these are fed on a kind of cycle basis. I hope you fish have similar tastes to mine.