Feeding

[jacquot385]

I have frozen food for my two percs, but what is the best way to prepare it to give to them. Also is there anything else that I should feed them other than frozen food? Any suggestions would be appreciated. :)

[Michael_Lambert]

Jacquot,

Frozen foods are good.. But you want to mix it up, Pick yourself up some high quality flake food... As most frozen foods are high in protein, In turn it pollutes the water easy, What most do myself included, is feed the tank daily, with a good flake food, the one i use and enjoy is Omega1 and then i feed frozen, either brine or mysis every 3 days..

Thanks
Michael.

[MountainM]

Don't mean to hijack but does any one ever use blood worms?

[neemo]

Blood worms are not good to feed to marine fish. They may carry parasites and make them sick.

[Mckitrick]

neemo - I didn't know that about blood worms. Even Freeze Dried?

jacquot385 - I usually melt frozen Mysis and feed them to the tank using a turkey baster. the bigger tangs come right out and pull food out of the end. I would also recommend a high quality flake food. ORG sells this Omega stuff that has given me very good results. You get a fair sized tub for 45 bucks.

[jacquot385]

Hey paul, what type of fish do you have in your nano cube? I have the two percs, but I was wondering if I could add another fish like a royal gramma.

[create_a_reef]

Live blood worms are bad freeze dried tend to be much safer. When I feed my fish frozen food put the frozen bs into a brine shrimp net and run cold water over it until it desolves. Then I add just the brine shrimp. I find feeding this way gets rid of the (haze of bs) when you add frozen right to the tank.

Brent

[neemo]

I haven't had any experience or feedback on the freeze-dried blodworms -- I assume the risk is negated by the FD process, but I cannot say for certain.

I do know the live stuff is no good, and also the frozen cubed stuff is apparently risky.

I would stay with foods meant to be for marine fish.

Sorry Jaquot I don't mean to get off topic, but as others have stated, use a variety of foods for your fish. We don't like to eat the same thing day after day, and its the same with fish. Plus switching foods will help them get a more "balanced" diet -- in other words what they may not get nutritionally from one food source they may get from another.

[aquanut40]

Hello

I have feed both frozen and fresh blood worms to marine fish and LPS for many many years and I have never had a problem never...

Stan

[rottn]

I feed my tank flake food (Formula 1 & 2 right now, but have also used Omega brand), frozen mysis, live bbs (hatch my own), and cyclopeeze. The clowns eat anything and everything offered. The only thing I haven't seen them touch is the nori that I put on a clip every now and then.

HTH

[SteveO]

I feed scallops, mussels, clams, shrimp, calamari, HBH color flake, HBH veggie flake, nori, red seaweed dried, bloodworms along with garlic all blended up and frozen. mmm mmm good!!

[bjorky]

I have read that grating the food, while still frozen is good.

[MCDAVIES]

You might also want to try Cyclop-eez. I feed it primarily for my corals, but my perc's do backflips for it! There is nothing I feed that they love more...

Mark

[psiico]

Everything in my tanks does backflips for Cyclop-Eeze! Buy some, you and your critters won't regret it.

[MountainM]

I usually feed a mix... flake.. and mysis and blood worms... the latter two frozen... Everything loves the bloodworms, including my tang... and I haven't seen any problems yet...
I just bought some pellets to see what happens, at the LFS I watched them put it in every tank and everything ate them

[Cellenzweig]

I usually feed a mix of some or all of the following:

Frozen brine shrimp
Frozen mysis
Frozen Bloodworms
Frozen Cyclop-eeze
Golden Pearls
Spirulina flakes
Live brine shrimp

All soaked in Zoe for a while whenever possible.

I also dose phyto once a week.

Colin

[nynick]

Only live bloodworms carry parasites, frozen are perfectly safe. It would also surprise me if a freshwater parasite from live blodworms would be able to infest a saltwater tank but I am not sure on that.