Food

[emonemo420]

alright so as most of u know i have asked a million questions, i did this and did that but i finally got my first two fish in there and ....um.... what do i feed em? lol... the person i got the fish off of gave me 3 different types of frozen food....krill, ocean plankton, and bloodworms...i also have some "new life specrum small fish formula" food....so what do i feed the little guys...i have a clarkii clown and yellowtail corris wrasse...i tried the krill yesterday and my clown sorta nibbled at it and the wrasse didnt eat nething...tried the plankton today in a differnt way (by that i mean the first day i put the whole frozen cube in and even when thawed still didnt touch it and today i nuked the plankton for 20 seconds in the microwave then when cooled i put some in) and although it went everywhere he ate more then yesterday but my wrasse still hasnt eaten nething ...other then a bristle worm that was dead on the rock that aint there ne more...but clarkii coulda got him too....so my ? is will ne of these actually be good for em and what should my wrasse eat? i could research it but what some sites say and what personal expiernces say are normally differnt....thanks everyone

 

[Grins]

I'd not use a whole frozen cube for 2 small fish...way more than they need. I am planning on making my own frozen mash this next month but for now I do a mix of frozen mysid, frozen brine (rarely use this one), ocean nutitrion II flakes and cyclopeeze. I also use nori on a clip but I have a tang.

The big things are

know if you carnivores, omnivores or herbivores and feed appropriately
mix up their diet so they get a variety of nutrients just like we need
feed the right sizes of food for the fish you keep
feed only what they can eat in 5 minutes

 

[fsn77]

Our clowns happily dine on a variety of frozen foods -- mysis, plankton, Formula 1, cyclops, and Prime Reef. I add Selcon to most of them for added nutrition, although it's also suppose to be a feeding response stimulator.

I'm unsure about the diet of a yellow tail corris wrasse, but its dietary needs should be easy enough for you to locate online.

I'd try to refrain from microwaving fish food... it should thaw quickly enough in a cup of tank water, even faster if you swirl it.

Multiple smaller feedings over the course of a day is better than a single large feeding. Most of the fish we keep don't eat a single large meal per day -- they graze / hunt for food multiple times per day (if not constantly). Somewhere it was put like this... most fish have a stomach that's no larger than their eye -- adjust the amount of food being fed based on that. In doing so, it's also unlikely you'll overfeed your tank.

I use to feed our tank only once per day (when we just had our 2 clowns), but the angels we added require multiple feedings per day to survive (they're planktivores, so they don't eat a lot at one time). Now, our tank gets fed once in the morning and once in the evening, which has worked out well for our schedule and the fish.

 

[Weezer]

Mix it up during the week, depending what your fish need and like.....