whats a good varity to feed?

[Jesus Freak]

hello,
i was woundering what a good verity of food was to feed? curently i have a clarkii clown, a yellow tail damsel, a blue damsel, and a banded sleeper goby. i feed them with hikari mysis shrimp "bio-encapsulated with multi-vitamins" once in the morning and once at night, i also feed nutrafin max marine flake food once or twice a week. what would be a better varity for them? thank you for your help

[small alien]

as long as it's nutritious food, the more variety the better. I feed frozen mysis, frozen spirulina brine, frozen prawn roe, frozen cyclopeeze, spectrum pellets and the occasional frozen blood worm twice daily.

[Jesus Freak]

do you feed a little of all that twice a day?

[RealReef7]

I feed scallops, cyclop-freeze and nori.

[SnookSlayer08]

Rod's food original formula, it's a bit pricey but it has a bit of everythign it in and even my mandarin eats it. i personally think that if you can only feed one kinda of food, this should be it.

[BonesCJ]

I feed mysis, krill, and marine quisine

[Jesus Freak]

has any one used the reef chili?

[Macimage]

I bought every type of good quality flake and pellet foods I could find and mixed them all up in a huge mixing bowl and then put the mix back into the containers.

I also bought a 15-16 different frozen foods, but don't usually feed them unless I have new finicky fish that are not eating. If I do feed them, I break of some of each type and keep the mix in a container in the refrigerator.

Joyce

[zachslow]

i clip nori every other day into my tank for the tangs.

i then alternate my daily food between two feeding plans.

1. rods food

2. spectrum pellets + cyclop-freeze

i put two drops of liquid garlic into the food and let it sit for 20 minutes before feeding.

[jubjub]

actually what i do its sooooo cheapper then the stuff at petco/LFS

goto asian mart pick up 1 pound of each
shrimp, scallops,nori,squid, and silversides or the sardines i think it is

throw it all in a food process or and blend the heck out of it..... i made enough food for over a year for about 20$......


and booooya 2000 posts...

[Jesus Freak]

are sardines a salt water fish?

[SnookSlayer08]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15553108#post15553108 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jesus Freak
are sardines a salt water fish?
yeah, they make great bait for larger gamefish.

[Jesus Freak]

does anyone else do that? i mean make there own food?

[BangkokMatt]

Many people make their own fish food

[anbosu]

Yep, it's cheaper and generally higher quality food.

[DCS_888]

Sorry to hijack this thread :D

How fine do you blend the food? Do you use any gel based powder to bind the food together? TIA

Chi

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15552279#post15552279 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jubjub
actually what i do its sooooo cheapper then the stuff at petco/LFS

goto asian mart pick up 1 pound of each
shrimp, scallops,nori,squid, and silversides or the sardines i think it is

throw it all in a food process or and blend the heck out of it..... i made enough food for over a year for about 20$......


and booooya 2000 posts...

[sedor]

When making your own food I think its still important to add frozen mysis, cyclopeze and all that good stuff you get at your LFS mostly because those are formulated specifically for marine fish and most of the time thats what your new additions will be accustomed to eating. When making your own food its also good to add vitamins such as Vita Chem or Selcon in there as well.

[cloak]

I wish I had more...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w16/jAb83_2007/food.jpg

[Brandon M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15563340#post15563340 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cloak
I wish I had more...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w16/jAb83_2007/food.jpg

Ditto...the more the better! :cool:

[gasman059]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15562093#post15562093 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BangkokMatt
Many people make their own fish food
I used to make my own
bur recently changed to a retail homemade food that is killer and way cheaper what it used to cost me.
Roggersreefood it has everything I used to mix but ime much better and cheaper than making it myself.
I buy it locally but a friend in Orlando told me it's retal now.

[Jesus Freak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15566576#post15566576 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brandon M
Ditto...the more the better! :cool:


how many fish and what kind do you have. to feed all that. how do you feed all that?:eek1:

[Jesus Freak]

how do you make a good all around reef food for cheap.

[gasman059]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15574324#post15574324 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jesus Freak
how do you make a good all around reef food for cheap.
U can't make quality food for cheap in small quantities that will saty fresh.
I've tried over many years and finally hit the Jackpot with this.
www.roggersreeffood.com
HTH

[Jesus Freak]

I've tried over many years and finally hit the Jackpot with this.
www.roggersreeffood.com
HTH

they dont give you any info on it. whats up with that?

[gasman059]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15576124#post15576124 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jesus Freak
I've tried over many years and finally hit the Jackpot with this.
www.roggersreeffood.com
HTH

they dont give you any info on it. whats up with that?
Sure check on the site and max the label and u se the ingridients.

fish/shrip/mussels/clams/selcon/cycolpeeze etc..

[amore169]

Theres a pretty cool video on YouTube in how to make ur own food.