Fish Food

[njtiger24 aquariums]

What does everyone feed their fish? I been using Omega One Marine Flakes with Garlic to feed my fish. (now I do sub frozen fish food on the weekends) I am about out of the Omega One and looking to get more food. I wonder what everyone use? Im not sure I will switch seeing how my fish are doing well on it but be nice to see what everyone else is using

 

[saltkreep88]

New life spectrum pellets and larrys fish frenzy.

 

[kschweer]

I use LRS and PE mysis. I also just got fresh fish eggs from Larry that I'm excited to try out.

 

[Mark_C]

Tablespoon of fresh chopped clam, one fresh shrimp, small bits (1" square) of fish (eg salmon, whitefish), a piece of dried seaweed, one capful of garlic oil, a squeezer or two of Seldane, maybe a block of another food (frozen mysis or krill).
All in food processor.
Blend.
Place into an old food tray from previous frozen food or roll into single dose balls on a piece of foil.
Freeze.
Takes a couple of minutes and you can make a months worth of high quality food for $3-4

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

Thanks guys will check them out. I did order more flakes cause my main reason is I want to have them at least as a backup if my fish don't like/want something new.

 

[Raffle King]

I use the raffle kings fish food

 

[Trio91]

Some free stuff I got at RAP last year from the goodie bags (not sure what it is sera marine I think)

And some mysis + reef chili from BRS

 

[mnat]

We use LRS and PE Mysis and I still get some live black worms from Trop if I remember.

Everyone be careful with garlic. While it can be very useful for getting new fish to eat, long term repeated feeding of garlic can actually harm and shorten the life span of your fish.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

@mnat that is the first I have heard of that. I have heard to feed garlic to help start feeding plus help fight off illness. I never heard it shorten the fish life span. By any chance you have link to this information cause I would love to read up on that part of it as well.

 

[mnat]

I can't link to reef central right now because it is blocked at work. If you search there or use Google you should be able to find it.

Edit:

Look for the thread by Humaguy "Humaguy synopsis on the efficacy of garlic for marine fish"

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

I can't link to reef central right now because it is blocked at work. If you search there or use Google you should be able to find it.

Thanks. Will check that out as soon as I can

 

[redfishbluefish]

I believe long term garlic use damages the fish's liver.

 

[art13]

I use a homemade blend of fish food, its a blend of seafood you can get at the store, frozen squid, flounder, bay scallops, shrimp, probably a few others i'm forgetting, as well as packaged frozen stuff like mysis, some bloodworms and brine shrimp, krill, silversides, whatever other frozen stuff you want to add, i put anything large into a food processor frozen and blend it down, the rest i let defrost a bit and then mix it in.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

so you guys who make your own fish food. Is it cheaper than picking up fish food? You just go to fish section of the store and get your stuff? How much do you order and about how long does it last? Also do you have a food processor just for making your fish food?

 

[art13]

I think i spent maybe 15 bucks on frozen fish food and 15 on frozen seafood at walmart, i only used half the frozen seafood so i still have half of it left, and i made three flat gallon size freezer bags out of it. i would say those three bags probably cost me 20-25 total, when you consider the cost of rods reef food at 20 bucks for less than one of those bags, its well worth it.

 

[njtiger24 aquariums]

@art13 thanks. Do you just break up a little for each feeding? I was thinking of getting ice cube trays and filling them with the mixture. I would put the tray in a bag just to keep from smelling

 

[horseplay]

I feed frozen blackworms as their main diet. Then I supplement tangs with some nori. I also feed other frozen food occasionally. I have a bunch of different things in the freezer.

 

[art13]

Also, if you go to an asian market, they have mixed seafood bags there for like 5 bucks, just blend that up and you're good to go, make sure it's uncooked.

 

[art13]

@art13 thanks. Do you just break up a little for each feeding? I was thinking of getting ice cube trays and filling them with the mixture. I would put the tray in a bag just to keep from smelling

i just break a piece off, i usually defrost it in a brine net over some water first and toss it in.