Foods :)

[shinyfish]

Well most of my food that i have left over is a bit older then id like to use, some almost a year.
so along with some prime and a digital thermometer i am gonna get some food from foster smith.

the tank is going to include 25 lemon tetras, 15 corys, and 1 angel.

Any suggestions on specific brands of flake food and something for the corys or a mix for them as i doubt they will be able to get much frozen stuff...

my plan is flakes and pellets most of the time but then every other day or so something frozen to replace one of the flake feedings, alternating between adult brine shrimp and bloodworms.

are the color enhancing foods anything special?

 

[Lupin]

Cories need sinking pellets or tablets. Flakes won't really sink and will be grabbed by other fish. As far as enhancing the colors, foods containing beta carotene such as carrots help.

 

[Cory Keeper]

Cories also like brine shrimp, blood worms and crushed snails. What I do to make sure my cory cats get food is to "overfeed" blood worms or brine shrimp so the food winds up on the bottom, then the fish that want it can get it.

 

[CaitxSith]

Cories - Blood worms should work nicely.

Other fish - DIY Fish food! I heard this is really good for the fish (click here)

 

[shinyfish]

hmm that definitely sounds like something to try

for now though i want to stick to something commercially available.
what i was thinking of grabbing is shrimp pellets tropical mix sinking tablets, then tropical color enhancing flakes + frozens..
however i am not sure of what brands to get.

 

[Riiz]

I think the cories will have to depend on sinking pellets and some ingenius methods for getting frozen food to the bottom. Lemons and most other tetras wont let many foods make it to the bottom and will scavenge too.

 

[shinyfish]

yea i will definitely be making sure they are eating.. Any opinions on San Francisco bay freeze dried food? or should i just stick to frozen.

 

[Lupin]

Fish prefer frozen stuff generally although freeze-dried ones can't hurt to try.

 

[shinyfish]

Alright ill stick to frozen vs freeze dried got a store pretty close with a good selection. As for flakes and pellets though anyone have any brand preference? or just go with tetra?

 

[jmhart]

My fish seem pretty happy with a mix of Wardley Shrimp Pellets, Hikari Algae Wafers, Aquadine, and Freeze-dried bloodworms.

The shrimp pellets are kind of ghetto, but my Dojo locah loves them. The Aquadine is my main food.



Also, don't buy the coralife digital thermometer. They are known to be really inaccurate. I bought two anyway....one was 5 degrees too high, and the other was 12 degrees too low. Caused me to cook some fish because I thought my tank was 67 degrees(so I turned up the heater). I recommend going with just a standard ethanol glass thermometer.