Reef fish foods?

keebler

keebler

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I have a bit of a concern. My flake food is causing some phosphates, but since right now my tank is a fowlr, there is no problem. When I am ready to introduce corals though, .5 phosphates will be an issue. I occasionally feed frozen brine to my fish, but just occasionally. My final stocklist for fish and inverts will be 4 turbos, 2 ocellaris, an orange shrimpgoby and pistol shrimp, a porcelain crab, 10 nassarius snails, and a feather duster. So what kinds of foods do you recommend. I need some help with a feeding schedule please!
 
mr_x

mr_x

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i suggest you make your own food. it's easy to do, and will go a long way towards a clean tank. store bought flake and frozen foods are not scrutinized like we want them to be.
you can find many recipes on line to make a good, healthy food, for fish and corals.
what i do is go to the supermarket. i buy a couple raw shrimp, a small handfull of scallops, a couple fresh clams, and whatever other white meat fish i feel like adding(i don't use salmon or any fatty fish), and toss all of them in a blender with some nori, and thawed, drained, cyclo-peeze and misis shrimp. then i chop to "puree".
i put this mixture in a gallon sized ziplock and roll it out with a rolling pin until flat, then freeze.
i have a very healthy food that will last me months, for just a few dollars.
i feed this to my lps and fish. they love it.
 
crazy4reefs

crazy4reefs

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Mr. X, could you please list a few types of white meat fish that would be good to use. One more question. exactly how do you draine cyclo-peeze, that stuff is pretty small. Thanks
 
mr_x

mr_x

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i just put the cyclo-peeze on a flat surface and tilt it slightly. you'll see the juice run down. there's so little it's not a big deal.
the misis, i use a small net for. i sit the frozen misis in the net and put the net in a cup of warm tank water. there's alot of garbage you don't want in your tank, in frozen misis.
i choose whatever white meat fish that's on sale- cod, mahi mahi, flounder,grouper, halibut, whatever comes from the ocean that's not super fatty like salmon or tuna.
which softies will you plan on keeping keebler? ricordea will eat this mix i made, xenia need nothing but light.
 
keebler

keebler

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Yeah, well I am planning on some xenia as well as some rics. In addition to those I am going to get some red shrooms and discosoma shrooms. I don't know, I'll just make additions slowly, after I get my phosphates down anyway.
 
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