Foods and Feeding

[darkjedv]

So what kind of food, supplements, and when do you feed your fish? Anyone make their own blends?
I feed 1 cube of Hikari Mega-Marine in the morning with 5 drops of AminOmega, 1 cube of Hikari Mysis Shrimp at night with 5 drops of Zoe. 1 cap every 2 weeks of Marine Snow.
In the beginning I used to feed brine shrimp, but I heard that is like feeding your fish potato chips.

 

[lion_crazz]

I feed Formula A, Formula B, Reef Formula, Algae Formula, Green Stuff Formula, freeze-dried sea veggies, Kent Platinum veggies pellets, prawn, krill, clam, and occassionally brine shrimp as a treat.
My foods get soaked alternately in Omega 3/6 supplement, VitaChem, Vitamin C, Zoe, and Selcon.
Every so often I soak my foods in garlic as well.

 

[darkjedv]

what benefit does the garlic give?

 

[m0nk]

I use Emerald Entree, Marine Cuisine, Mysis, and Cyclop-eeze pretty frequently, switching up the days they get which one. The tangs get green and/or purple Sea Veggies algae sheets. I also occasionally feed Kent Platinum pellets, and lately I've been experimenting with fresh/homemade foods. The last batch was shrimp, clams, Cyclop-eeze, and purple algae.
Everything gets soaked for at least 5 min alternately in Amino and Omega 3/6, Selcon, Vitamin C, or VitaChem. Garlic is fed on occasion.

 

[air_putih]

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i just understand this...
so you guys soaked the food ?? in omega 3/6 ??? selcon ?? vitamic c ???
please tell me more about this...
usually i gave only flake or pellet straight into my tank..and they seem to eating it...where can i get omega 3/6 or selcon or this vitamin c ?? LFS ??? SWF.com ?

 

[guyerson]

I feed frozen Formula One, frozen Formula 2, frozen Dwarf Angel Formula, frozen Mysis, occasional flake and occasional Spectrum pellet. Soak all in Selcon, stuff is great, but can get gooey and clumpy from time to time..

 

[darkjedv]

yeah you really should supplement your food with what the fish need. I have a butterfly that had HLE pretty bad because of my ignorance with food. I started using selcon, amino omega, and zoe and the HLE is almost all gone. They should have a good range of food also. What type of fish do you have?

 

[darkjedv]

Just found this chart. Pretty cool...I think I will be adding Formula 1&2 to the menu.
http://saltaquarium.about.com/librar...blfishfood.htm

 

[m0nk]

Originally Posted by air_putih
http:///forum/post/2504059
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i just understand this...
so you guys soaked the food ?? in omega 3/6 ??? selcon ?? vitamic c ???
please tell me more about this...
usually i gave only flake or pellet straight into my tank..and they seem to eating it...where can i get omega 3/6 or selcon or this vitamin c ?? LFS ??? SWF.com ?
I got them all from my LFS. The Selcon, Zoecon, VitaChem are the names of the products. The Amino and Omega 3/6 and Vitamin-C that I use are Brightwell Aquatics products. Selcon has some of the aminos and omegas in it, but I like to try different products.
How you apply it is all in the type of food that you feed. I use fresh or frozen more than anything else so I let the food sit on a plate or in a cup and drizzle the vitamin product on top and let it just sit there and soak for a bit before feeding. Flake really has limited nutritional value and some pellet food has the vitamin products in them, like Kent Platinum, which I believe has Zoecon in it.