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Aquarium food database

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sfsuphysics

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That topic I started about gorgonians and feeding/auto-feeding got me to thinking maybe we should have a food database or informational sheet as for what each type of food is good for. Now I don't mean review each type of flake food or the like, but the number of times I've seen questions asked towards Gresham about what type of RN product is good for... would make me think that some listing might be good, while I'm sure they have their own informational sheet having one that covered all foods might be better in general. After all that usually follows someone winning a multi-pack at a raffle, but Joost pointed out a couple foods that I have never used in the hobby, hell I've been in here for quite a while and never have I used cyclopeze once :D

So like any good database it would need help from many with their experiences, hell I wouldn't even mind doing all the dirty work of formatting and making it look pretty (after all I'm asking for it, so I should have to do the work no one wants to do), however my experiences with certain foods might differ than others as far as usage, for instance when I first saw a member's tank he fed his fish pellet food, however his LPS (specifically Acans) also opened up and ate the food, so sure enough I tried feeding that food as well and it seemed to have worked, if I didn't see it I never would have believed it.

So something along the following (formatted a bit nicer of course)

Flake food - Food for fish, keep dry, no refrigeration necessary, use with dry-mechanical autofeeder, have "ring" on surface to avoid food from floating and into the overflow.
Pellet food - Food for fish or some LPS, keep dry, no refrigeration necessary, use with dry-mechanical autofeeder for fish, target feed for corals as it sinks
Phytoplankton (generic) - food that feeds microfauna in tank (BTW I'm guessing here), refrigeration necessary, use peristaltic pumps to dose to tank with mini-frige to keep cold.
Arcti-pods - etc...

So am I the only one that would be jazzed about something like this? Or does this already exist and I'm just not internet savvy enough to find it :D
 
IMO such a data base will be amazing hard to put together given how many cross over uses just about everything has, and the fact while some can be used, they are highly inferior to others. You can live on junk food for the most part, doesn't mean it's responsible to suggest it :D

I know you are being simplistic with your examples, but they illustrate just how hard this can be. Some phyto products are refrigerated, some frozen, some shelf stable and some are even dry powders.

I don't have the bandwidth to deal with several hundred feeds with probably 1K plus cross overs. We have done such a list for our products like any responsible manufacturer should do. You can use our guide for our products :) As for the rest, numerous really don't give you that data. Dr Foster and Smith has a guide of what they sell and sort of what it can be used as. There are numerous cross over points they missed though... which goes to the heart of what I was saying in regards to just how complex the matrix will be :lol:

Our guide is on our website, in our brochure, on a poster, on a counter mat and on a postcard. I can send you the file digitally if you like.
 
Hmmm sounds like I might be getting into a bigger project than I thought.

Gresham, I just looked at the site, and other than picking recommended foods for individual fish via a pull down menu I was not able to find any such list as you suggest, happen to have a URL so I can zip there quicker?
 
Both are doable. Thanks for the suggestions guys, feel free to give me more (no joke) :)

Problem with all these kinds of things is we release new product(s) every year. I hate sitting on out dated marketing material. It just kills me :lol:
 
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