Feeding

[kreblak]

What have you all found to be the best foods for fish, overall? I currently feed mine a combination of frozen cubes and flake food, usually twice a day. They don't seem to prefer either one, and they constantly seem hungry.

I was thinking of tossing in some frozen shrimp to mix things up, but I am a little worried about giving my fish a "taste" for shrimp, and then having one of them decide that my striped cleaner shrimp might be a nice snack. As I understand it, the fish wouldn't eat the cleaner shrimp...right?

[MonoSebaelover]

I feed all my fish mainly foods by Ocean Nutrition. They all get a variety of (all frozen) Formula One, Form 2, Trigger Form, Angel Form, Spiralina Algae, VHP, Frozen Shrimp and Scallops (from grocery store), Mysis Shrimp, Brine Shrimp, and sheets of Algae by Julian Sprung. I bought my lg Lunare as a 4" juvie from a guy that didn't take care of him and had some nasty HLLE (Head and Lateral Line Erosion), and after feeding the variety listed above he healed in less than 2 weeks which is amazing! Hope this helps.

[kreblak]

Yes, it does help. I am trying to get growth out of my fish, as well as heightened immune prowess, so I figured that proper nutrition is essential. They really seem to like the flakes, and they like the light red frozen cubes, but they hardly touch the dark red cubes or the black cubes. The hermits, however, love what the fish don't get!

[Kit Walker]

I use a varying diet usually depending on the time of day. Morning feed is usually frozen brine shrimp cube, second feed I use Spirulina flakes and then last feed bloodworms. My lionfish however only accepts live feeder fish. Every few days I offer my anenomes prawn meat, but usually my Clowns feed them feeder fish.

[MonoSebaelover]

Kit- You so realize that one day those feeders will kill your lion right? I would try switching him to (ghost)shrimps or damsels.

[Kit Walker]

Is that because freshwater feeders don't contain the correct nutrition?

[MonoSebaelover]

That is a small part, the more important part is that marine predators can not digest the skulls of feeders. Feeders are 20% more fatty than your average saltwater fish so it is the equivalent to making people eat at McDonalds for the rest of their lives (extremely unhealthy). So all the extra fat that they can't digest along with the skulls cause a blokage in the liver and start getting fatty liver disease where the liver has pockets of fat. Eventually the liver will get so large that it will crush all the other vital organs around it, killing the fish in a long slow painful death. This is why one should not feed feeders under any circumstances. It is much healthier to feed ghost shrimp or Damsels.

[Mandairn]

:D be side if hes not hungy at the moment he got a snack for later

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