High Quality Flake Food?

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hershey1999

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What brand of flake food do you consider to be high quality?
 
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hershey1999

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thanks. I have tried the spectrum pellets, fish will not touch, i have tried prime reef flakes, fish will not touch this either, the only thing they want to eat is frozen brine shrimp and from reading other posts, the frozen brine shrimp is not enough. I will try formula 1 and 2. My finicky fish are two clowns and a black clown goby.
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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I like Omega One and Ocean Nutrition. However, my fish are spoiled. They get such a variety of frozen foods that flake is not on the menu.
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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brine shrimp is definatly not enough. you want to get them to eat as varied a diet as possible. its strange they wont touch spectrum, thats definatly up there on high quality. try frozen formula one two or prime reef if they wont eat the flake. or mix the foods with some brine shrimp and put them in the tank together they may accidently eat some and decide thyey like it. sounds like they are only recognizing frozen brine as edible you really should try and break them of that for the sake of their health.
 
renogaw

renogaw

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Sera is a flake food i use. my fish's coloring is awesome, and its very nutritious (supposedly). it has pellets and flakes in the cannister. best thing is: no testable phosphates
 
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hershey1999

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i have even soaked the spectrum in garlic, and the clowns just let it fall to the floor
 
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hershey1999

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but it's the garlic in the bottle (by seachem) i think, maybe i should try the real stuff
 
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hershey1999

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I don't know if they were tank bred, I purchased them together at the lfs, I would say one is about 2 1/2 in. and the other is a little smaller than that. Thanks to this forum, I have been soaking the brine shrimp in zoe, to help with the nutrition.
 
renogaw

renogaw

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Originally Posted by hershey1999
I don't know if they were tank bred, I purchased them together at the lfs, I would say one is about 2 1/2 in. and the other is a little smaller than that. Thanks to this forum, I have been soaking the brine shrimp in zoe, to help with the nutrition.
brine shrimp = no nutritional value.
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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I would ask the store you biought them at what they were being fed..
at that size I would think thay might have had manytypes of food but who knows.
 
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hershey1999

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I'm new to the saltwater hobby and if I found flakes they will eat, just wanted to make sure it was nutritional, esp. since what the clowns currently eat is not, so many brands out there. I will try the Form 1 and 2 first.
 
andy51632

andy51632

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I have 2 finicky percula clownfish(wild) that would not eat anything. I used a recipe from "Con. Marine Aquarist," They went obsolutly ape shi_ over it. Here is what I used.
4oz shrimp(fresh, frozen,)
2oz clams
2oz fresh spinage
a multivitamin supplement, I used seachems Reef Plus
Blend all these together and freeze in a big ball. Then either cut a piece off or use a cheese grater.
Sorry for all the misspelling.
 
aquaguy24

aquaguy24

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i use formula one. everythin in my tank seems happy with it. i just have blue demsel. some hermit crabs cleaner shrimp. and some snails but they don't that stuff. everything else gobbles it up in like two seconds.
 
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