healthy diet advice?
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squidd
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Variety is a key...don't feed the same thing day in and day out...
Squid Chunks, Krill, Cockle, Raw shrimp, Chunks of Ocean fish, are all available at a good LFS and sometimes at a grocer...
Selcon will add unsaturated fatty acids, a good thing...
Multi-Vit, Zoe, Bio-Vit are "multi-vitamins", also a good thing...
Garlic juice like Kent's is OK but not a cure all...
Squid Chunks, Krill, Cockle, Raw shrimp, Chunks of Ocean fish, are all available at a good LFS and sometimes at a grocer...
Selcon will add unsaturated fatty acids, a good thing...
Multi-Vit, Zoe, Bio-Vit are "multi-vitamins", also a good thing...
Garlic juice like Kent's is OK but not a cure all...
gasguzzler
Active Member
All garlic does is make the food smell better to the fish. It is an attractant. It is by no means a multivitamin or will be bad for their health when given everyday. A lot of people seem to think it serves that way but it is only toinitiate a feeding response.
squidd
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I'm not particularly a proponent of garlic, on the other hand, I'm not against it either...
When I see "signs" of ich (could be sand or bubbles, but I'm ich-paranoid) or frayed fins or anything that looks out of the ordinary, I'll add garlic to their food...of course I'll also do a water change, clean the filters and maybe run some carbon...
In a day or two, or even the next day, everybody's back to normal and happy/healthy...Was it the garlic...or maybe the WC, clean filter or the carbon...or some combo...?
What I'm saying is I can't prove garlic did anything, and I'm not about to single it out to prove it did, nor am I about to eliminate it from my "regime" ...I like to cover all my bases, which is why I run a skimmer, a fuge and UV for filtration, and more than one heater in a large tank...
So add garlic if you want, it will entice finicky eaters, it may even have "some" health benifits...But be sure to "balance" your feeding with HUFA and Vitamins and a variety of foods..
When I see "signs" of ich (could be sand or bubbles, but I'm ich-paranoid) or frayed fins or anything that looks out of the ordinary, I'll add garlic to their food...of course I'll also do a water change, clean the filters and maybe run some carbon...
In a day or two, or even the next day, everybody's back to normal and happy/healthy...Was it the garlic...or maybe the WC, clean filter or the carbon...or some combo...?
What I'm saying is I can't prove garlic did anything, and I'm not about to single it out to prove it did, nor am I about to eliminate it from my "regime" ...I like to cover all my bases, which is why I run a skimmer, a fuge and UV for filtration, and more than one heater in a large tank...
So add garlic if you want, it will entice finicky eaters, it may even have "some" health benifits...But be sure to "balance" your feeding with HUFA and Vitamins and a variety of foods..
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puffygrrl
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I have a Porky and Humu Trigger in separate tanks. If you have them in the same, keep in mind they have different eating needs. The Trigger needs to be fed 2-3 times A DAY while the Porky NO MORE than 2-3 times A WEEK. Puffers are very affectionate and people like to feed them, but overfeeding can damage their liver and cause them to "rest" all the time because they are digesting. My proky is healthy and happy and very active and is only fed twice a week.
My humu on the other hand, while also happy and healthy, is fed twice a day from a variety of frozen squid, krill, clam, mysis, trigger formula, VHP cubes, shrimp, Angel cubes, PrimeReef, silversides, and spirulina cubes. I also put seaweed in the tank once a week, which he gobbles down, and once a month he gets fresh raw seafood like mussles or cherrystone clams from the grocery store.
Both, well all, of my fish are so healthy. I recently had a confrontation between my Angel and Sharpnose puffer in which ended with the Angel having a HUGE gash near its gill, quite deep and gross. Within 3 days you couldn't even tell anything had happened it healed so fast.
GOOD LUCK!
My humu on the other hand, while also happy and healthy, is fed twice a day from a variety of frozen squid, krill, clam, mysis, trigger formula, VHP cubes, shrimp, Angel cubes, PrimeReef, silversides, and spirulina cubes. I also put seaweed in the tank once a week, which he gobbles down, and once a month he gets fresh raw seafood like mussles or cherrystone clams from the grocery store.
Both, well all, of my fish are so healthy. I recently had a confrontation between my Angel and Sharpnose puffer in which ended with the Angel having a HUGE gash near its gill, quite deep and gross. Within 3 days you couldn't even tell anything had happened it healed so fast.
GOOD LUCK!
