What do you feed your fish? I learned the hard way.

[bluemarlin]

I got carried away recently and started to think that my fish may want a little more variety in their diet. I have always feed frozen brine shrimp, krill, scallops and some flake foods. Out of stupidity I decided to feed them some blood worms. I bought a package and began feeding them to my inhabitants. They seemed a little slow to respond at first but once they tried them, they ate them. A few days later one of my Butterflies stopped eating and just floated in the corner. All of my efforts to help it were useless as it just wasted away and died. Then my yellow tang did the exact same thing. Then my anthias. Three days and three LONG time inhabitants of my tank gone!
My water is near perfect with ammonia and trites at 0 and trates at 20. I think it was the blood worms. I stopped feeding them and I've lost nothing else since. This really was sad because the tang and the anthias I had for several years. The butterfly I had only had for about 7 months but they were doing really well before the bloodworms.
So I've gone back to my basic feeding patterns. Please be careful about tinkering with something that isn't broken. It just sucks! What foods do you feed your fish?

 

[jacksonpt]

I feed flake to my fish, fresh scalops and frozen salad shrimp to my anemone, and frozen brine and frozen mysis shrimp to everyone.

 

[bang guy]

I blend a variety of seafood in a blender, add Cod liver Oil and SelCon. The seafood is usually just what's on sale but normally contains Scallops, Shrimp, Clams and the Salmon fat trimmed from my favorite dinner . Sometimes Squid or Oysters.

 

[pyro383]

Originally posted by Bang Guy
I blend a variety of seafood in a blender, add Cod liver Oil and SelCon. The seafood is usually just what's on sale but normally contains Scallops, Shrimp, Clams and the Salmon fat trimmed from my favorite dinner . Sometimes Squid or Oysters.
How well do you blend it? I have started to do this and am trying to find the correct consistency. I usually have some bits and pieces and puree. However it seems to foul up the water a bit as alot floats around from the fish tearing at it. How much gelatine do you use? Thanks for the help

 

[bang guy]

I don't use any gelatin. There is a fine cloud of food along with the bits and pieces. This cloud feeds the filter feeders like porcelain crabs and 'pods. Big chunks are consumed by detrivores. If you haven't fed this way before you will need to start small and let the populations of your cleanup crew slowly increase as you increase the dosage of food.