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10/21/2007, 11:27 PM
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Looking for better fish food options...
I have a pretty light bioload in my tank, and my two fish are a 3" maroon clown and a neon dottyback. I would like to know some foods that will be great for these fish. Currently, I feed mysis and formula 1. I find the Formula 1 to be too messy. The mysis work fine, but I'd like to diversify the diet a bit. I also have Cyclopeeze, but that seems to be too small to fill up the maroon clown. Suggestions are welcome, and the cleaner the food, the better!
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#2
10/22/2007, 12:59 AM
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Fresh seafood is one of the best things you can feed. Go to the supermarket seafood counter and get some shrimp, scallops, cod, clams, muscles, squid and anything else that comes outa the ocean. Just make sure its not cooked or seasoned.
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10/22/2007, 09:34 AM
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Steve I'm not sure where in Baltimore you live, but there is Franks Seafood market in Jessup. Go in there an hour or so before they close and ask them for some scraps. I usually get clams, mussels, squid, fish heads and shrimp. I remove the meat from the fish heads, shuck the clams and rinse everything off real good. Add some Selcon and mince it in the blender. Then I spread it out over a cookie sheet and freeze it. Once it's frozen break it up into portions. Costs me about $7/month.
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10/23/2007, 02:02 AM
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Go to any asian store and you can get a frozen mix of squid, scallops, shrimp, etc. for less than $5. Add your selcon, vitamins, cyclopeeze, mysis/brine shrimp, garlic extract, formula 1 & some spectrum thera + A pellets. Blend it for a few seconds and put it into some freezer safe ziploc bags (lay it flat) and break off a piece when needed. That will give you a nice variation for your fishes !
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#7
10/31/2007, 03:23 AM
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None of those options are very clean!
On the other hand, New Life Spectrum pellets are very clean. Many people maintain those fish you have on just NLS pellets exclusively. |
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#9
10/31/2007, 12:14 PM
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Laguna Farms, you can get it on MarineDepot.com, is a great food.
I have a maroon, a false perc (I know, I know) and a YCG. its not the cube stuff and it has many times more nutrients per weight with any cubed food and my fish go crazy over the stuff. A guy in our local mas group makes it and packages it for sale. I can send you some info if interested, and no I dont get anything for this. I just like to see my fish happy and know that you would want the same. |
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#10
10/31/2007, 02:39 PM
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You can buy a 5lb bucket of New Life spectrum pellets for $50. That will last the typical 125 gallon tank for god knows how long but I would bet longer than a year and a half. And yes it will stay good for that long. Say it lasts 20 months it comes out to be $2.50/month. And I am probably underestimating here.
When you're looking for other foods you'll find you can get a lot of them cheaper then $10 per pound but you usually get what you pay for. I would say look at the ingredients because they need to be listed by weight. That means the first ingredient is the most abundant in the formula and so on down the line. Don't be fooled by Omega One's ingredient list though, all those fish at the beginning are just 'fish meal' stretched into something that looks nice for the consumer. |
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#11
10/31/2007, 03:05 PM
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I use about a pound a month of food (sometimes more). Pellets are the way to go. Nitrates are at 1 and phosphate is undetectable in my FOWLR when I feed pellets. When I fed homemade food (for more than a year), the nitrates were at 10 and the phosphate was at .01. The fish are bigger now too with better color. Without the filter feeders in the tank, I just cannot justify feeding messy food anymore. If you do feed mysis, then rinse it out first.
My optimim formula in my reef as well as FOWLR is 70% pellets, 20% mysis and 10% mixed seafood (shrimp, squid, octopus, cuttlefish heads, etc.). |
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11/01/2007, 05:50 AM
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Go with the Spectrum pellets.
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11/01/2007, 12:10 PM
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What is Rods food and why is it so special? Could you list the ingredients please...
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11/01/2007, 03:47 PM
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Ever considered culturing live food sources?
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11/01/2007, 05:08 PM
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11/01/2007, 07:27 PM
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The thing about Rod's food I see being a downfall is that its frozen. A lot of what you will be paying for is water weight, in any frozen food. Buying a dry pellet formula is much more economical.
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11/01/2007, 07:46 PM
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Rods is the best food I have ever used.
http://www.rodsfood.com/
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#20
11/01/2007, 11:23 PM
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