Best fish food

[edwing206]

what are the 2 best foods to really bring out the color in fishes? thanks

[nyvp]

what kind of fish? Tang,angels,chromis?

[MGB]

Use a combination of both dry and frozen, and experiment with different brands. However my most successful tip is to always soak your food in Selcon and Garlic extreme, everybody's heard of it, and its a great way to keep your fish healthy and colorful, thats presuming you have good water quality and great lighting, they'd be the first requirements to healthy fish. Its all about the whole, not just good food.

[edwing206]

mostly omnivores, like clowns, wrasses, and aslo for carnivores like hawks. but also in general. thanks

[edwing206]

ok ill try selcon, thanks

[snorvich]

If you want to be effective and make it easy, use Rod's food (frozen) which contains all sorts of stuff including selcon. Available, at a minimum, from Premium Aquatics.

[edwing206]

ok thanks

[sunfishh]

Remember that variety is the spice of life. The more variety you give the better off your fish will be. If you are looking for a starting point the ocean nutrition products are good.

[edwing206]

ok ill check them out

[mattyice]

you could make your own food with some scallops, squid, shrimp, clams, some white fish like tilapia, some healthy dry fish food, some high quality frozen food (somthing like cyclopeeze would be perfect), put it in a food processor, grind it all together untill its the size you want, then add selcon and/or garlic extreme at the end

[mattyice]

thats pretty much the same as rod's food + or - some ingredients

[Ramble On Rose]

yeah rods is definatly the way to go. he has more in there then I even care to buy. thankfully for us around chicago it is more easilly available, but now that premium aquatics has it, thats great for everyone else. Another benifit is that there is food in there for corals as well.

[Serioussnaps]

frozen cyclopeeze is the bomb

[sunfishh]

Originally posted by mattyice
you could make your own food with some scallops, squid, shrimp, clams, some white fish like tilapia, some healthy dry fish food, some high quality frozen food (somthing like cyclopeeze would be perfect), put it in a food processor, grind it all together untill its the size you want, then add selcon and/or garlic extreme at the end

Great idea

[edwing206]

thanks guys

[thornbury]

Rotation is always best for me...

Mine are all frozen: daphnia, bloodworm, beefheart, prawn, marine mix, mysis shrimp, vegie diet, and brine shrimp.

I also make sure that one of them is the staple diet (kind of rice/ bread to us)... in my case, it's brine shrimp.

Make sure it's rotated consistently... and your fish should be happy.


As for your-own mixture of foods, it's a good idea but it's still the same as us eating super-supreme pizza everyday... you can make the mixture but make sure it's still part of your food rotation not the "only" thing you feed your fish.

Buy lots of fish food and develop a rotation.

[edwing206]

good advice thornbury. and you feed your fish beefheart??? like actual cow heart?

[mattyice]

yes thats what they call it and the chop it up and freeze it into little cubes, a local guy here feeds it to his small mantis shrimp

[Broodingwolf]

I thought brine shrimp was essentially nutritionally worthless?

[mattyice]

it is but when it is gutloaded with stuff...or is fed to the animals within the time that the babies have their egg sack then they are nutritious, or you can put the frozen cube in a cup to thaw out and put some selcon or garlic on it to help make it more appealing and healthy for the fish