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So while my tank is cycling I'm wondering what shall I feed my fish when I get them. So I'm looking at this chart and I see all fish don't eat the same food. Are you guys basically feeding your fish the frozen prepackaged stuff or mixing your own food? If you go the prepackaged route you basically feed them what that chart says?
 
I feed a variety of food throughout the day: nori, black worms, mysis, Rods, can oyster, mussel, pellets, flakes, frozen brine, and frozen ocean nutrition food. That chart is irrelevant as my butterfly and angel like nori, and anthias chew on pellets like mysis.
 
I feed prawn eggs, mysis, cyclop-eeze, Formula I & II. All my fish love it!
I don't have any tangs or heavily herbivorous fish, so no Nori with me :)
While I may not be feeding the most varied diet to my fish as some other reefers on the board are, I always advocate that variety is best.
 
I make my own food. It has squid, shrimp, mussels, nori, Formula I & II flake, Phyto, cyclopses, selcon, Mysis and what ever else I have lying around.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Ocean Nutrition Form 1 & 2 flakes and mysis are all I feed
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I'm like Mike. Sometimes I'll toss in some Rod's food. At one point, to get my ventralis feeding (in the past), I used live marine mysis.
 
Can anyone tell me the guaranteed analysis of Rod's Food?

Art you used live marine mysids, not mysis ;)
 
oh ok woops! but it was amazing, the anthias went from not eating at all for 3 days off frozen to stuffing five or six of these things in their mouths right when it hit the water. Soon after I was feeding frozen and they loved it just the same. Coincidence that they were ready to eat finally, maybe, but neat to watch.
 
Nope, the stuff I get to make the food with is sushi grade and has no preservatives, I gots to go get me some trimmings today (a little uni even, although that usually doesn't make into into the mix :D )
 
Nah, I have a client that is a seafood distributor when I feel like it I grab a few scraps chop them up and feed/freeze it. I'm sure you can buy stuff from a reputable fishmonger as long as you avoid preservatives, which if you have a good fishmonger you will be able to do that. Stay away from scallops for sure, unless of course they are "dried" (live in shell), of course if you buy those you'll be eating them not your fish, they's expensive and tasty.
 
Just got back from the DR and got placed on a strict diet to help diagnose possible food allergies. Everything I crave is gone, besides SUSHI :) I just can't have soy sauce with it (oh well). No shellfish either :(
 
diet to determine allergies? I thought they just hit you with the multiple pinpricks on your back or something in a grid like fashion to test for allergies.
 
GreshamH said:
Just got back from the DR and got placed on a strict diet to help diagnose possible food allergies. Everything I crave is gone, besides SUSHI :) I just can't have soy sauce with it (oh well). No shellfish either :(
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Man that sucks, I hope they figure it out soon and you aren't in any discomfort, my brother has food allergies that can easily kill him and growing up we had some scary moments, especially before it was isolated. I hope it's just all of the candied yams :p
 
@Jeremy - you're buying right?
@Gresham - man that sucks

Ok, back on track.... so for the frozen food that comes in squares and mysis shrimp do I just break off a chunk and throw it in the tank? I've only fed fish flake food.
 
Take a small cup and put a little tank water in it, place the frozen food in the cup and allow it to melt, after it has broken down pour off the scummy water and replace it with tank water, then feed.


John, I'll buy the first round of cucumber rolls :D
 
sfsuphysics said:
diet to determine allergies? I thought they just hit you with the multiple pinpricks on your back or something in a grid like fashion to test for allergies.
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two things come to mind....
I hate needles, and that test is for other allergies, like dogs/cats/etc. Mine is an allergen elimination diet to help me now, not so much to help determine the root cause (my blood panels and stool samples will determine that). All ready worked so it's one of a dozen things I can't have now... bet it's wheat :(
 
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