Having problem with Ocean Nutrition frozen food!!

zachjohnson65

zachjohnson65

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I bought Ocean Nutrition Formula Two Frozen food for my cichlids and rainbows but i have not got any on them to eat it. It is hard to break up the gel cubes to fish size bites. It just clumps up and goes to the bottom. It has 2% garlic so i thought that might help temp the fish but they do not even respond to it as food. What is the problem? Anyone else not like this product? All fish are eating normal flake/pellet diet.
 
I feed Ocean Nutrition formula 2 to my marine fish...

is this the same food..small red cubes?


I let it melt in in a cup wih a bit of tank water ..then mash it up.

but it is specifically designed for Marine fish..(omnivours) tho my tangs will gobble it up
particularly my Hippo tang..it's a pig..

it's ingredients are specific to marine fish tho I am not sure it would be a problem for you F W fish.

they may not be use to eating planton ans such.
what cichlids do you have?
 
^^ good idea

many are interchangable but I would do the same stick with the food for the appropriate conditions.;)
 
Thanks for the replies The package says "For herbivorous marine and freshwater fishes. Surgeonfish, Angelfish, Butterfly fish, African cichlids, Plecostomus and other algae-eaters." So i thought i was doing ok.
 
You're doing fine. Fish can sometimes be picky, especially with a food they've never tested before. Give them time. When I first started offering the rainbows and chanchitos frozen bloodworms, they wouldn't even touch it, they'd just look at me like I was crazy. Now they savor and fight over them. :)
 
I just can not get the gel cube to melt so it makes trying to feed hard. I put it in my worm feeder and it never left the gel state. Last time i put frozen food in the feeder my syndontis climbed in above the water line and hogged out, He doesn't even care its there now.
 
Try just letting it sink to the bottom. They should be able to pick at it. I don't think you'd want it to melt really, I'd think that would make one heck of a mess.
 
let it melt and smash it up.. the food is safe for freshwater but it it not food they are use to eating..

what species of fish are in your tank?

this stuff does not melt..like that..

it is bound with gel binder .
as you can see it does not break up well

the binder is in it to keep the plankton and algae together..

melt it in a small cup with tank water..when it is soft mash it up..it will break up into small chunks
this food is safe for freshwater but was designed for marine Angelfish and Marine tangs(surgeon fish).. not to be confused with lake tanganyika or freshwater angelfish.
these two species are largely herbaceous.
 
Well i guess i just spent money on gel binder. Thanks for the info guys.
 
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