Food variety ?

[kirkland]

How much do you vary what you feed your reef? I made a batch of homemade food using Beth's recipe. It included dover sole, red snapper, shrimp, clams, mussels (all the seafood was raw, probably won't attempt to open raw shellfish again. what a pain!), 3 cloves of garlic, 2 nori sheets, 10 spirulina capsules (emptied the algae out of the capsules and discarded), a handful of blanched spinach, and 2 medium-sized blanched broccoli florets. This was all pureed until mushy but not liquified, scored and frozen. I feed this to our reef every day. Once a week or so, I feed just mysis or krill. Algae sheets are supplemented 2x/week for the turbo and astrea snails plus I dose phytoplankton once a week for the feather duster (a small bit in a pippette, gently and slowly released behind his head). We have 2 cleaner shrimps, 2 maroon clownfishes, rusty angelfish, 2 blue-green chromis, a feather duster, frogspawn and bta. Is this enough of a variety of food for our tank? Would making a few different batches of homemade food be a good idea? Should flake or other frozen cube food be mixed in? My boyfriend - who had a 55g reef when I met him and at first taught me everything I know and now, with this board's help, I am teaching him, thinks that our homemade food isn't enough of a variety. What do you feed and how do you vary it up?

 

[miaheatlvr]

Originally Posted by kirkland
How much do you vary what you feed your reef? I made a batch of homemade food using Beth's recipe. It included dover sole, red snapper, shrimp, clams, mussels (all the seafood was raw, probably won't attempt to open raw shellfish again. what a pain!), 3 cloves of garlic, 2 nori sheets, 10 spirulina capsules (emptied the algae out of the capsules and discarded), a handful of blanched spinach, and 2 medium-sized blanched broccoli florets. This was all pureed until mushy but not liquified, scored and frozen. I feed this to our reef every day. Once a week or so, I feed just mysis or krill. Algae sheets are supplemented 2x/week for the turbo and astrea snails plus I dose phytoplankton once a week for the feather duster (a small bit in a pippette, gently and slowly released behind his head). We have 2 cleaner shrimps, 2 maroon clownfishes, rusty angelfish, 2 blue-green chromis, a feather duster, frogspawn and bta. Is this enough of a variety of food for our tank? Would making a few different batches of homemade food be a good idea? Should flake or other frozen cube food be mixed in? My boyfriend - who had a 55g reef when I met him and at first taught me everything I know and now, with this board's help, I am teaching him, thinks that our homemade food isn't enough of a variety. What do you feed and how do you vary it up?
WOW,, making that whole concocktion from scratch and then feeding it,, I couldnt think of one more thing to add, AMAZING, the only thing I would probably feed them every other day,, defiantely not daily..

 

[reefkprz]

the list of foods I feed is insane,
homemade food (with just about everything in it) couple different recipies nothing set in stone.
mussels, clams, squid, whitefish, shrimp, oysters, nori, seaweed selects, formula one, formula two, prime reef, omega one, newlife specturm thera a+, cyclops, daphnia, mysis, emerald entree, krill, silversides, and more. I feed something different everytime I feed my tank.