Feeding questions

[JonV88]

I just got my first fish yesterday and the are in quarantine I tried feeding this but to big for three of them http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/11/30/yzusy5ar.jpg
So I'm feeding flakes http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/11/30/degu7yvy.jpg does this mean I should hold off on frozen or not?? And I've been using an empty bottle that I put a piece of frozen food in with a little tank water and pour just enough to feed so I get left over in my bottle should I put in fridge, refreeze or dispose??

[Saltliquid]

Get some frozen lobster eggs, small frozen krill and frozen misses shrimp, they are all good.
If angels or butterflies for example, buy some frozen green muscles and sushi wrap, that may work.
Except for spirulina and sushi wrap, i only use fresh/frozen, nothing else!

[Denbf58]

you should have got the marine formula aside form that keep feeding frozen food it some times takes awhile for fish to learn to eat pellets and flakes make sue to keep a eye on ammonia levels do you prime or amqual on hand. keep unused food in fridge.

[JonV88]

Sorry I didn't specify two osceallaris clown fish and 2 snowflake clowns

[JonV88]

We'll I freeze unused fosh food but for food that I unfroze throw out or refreeze

[BlindZide]

Fridge it but use within a day or 2.

[browning_boy20]

Sorry I didn't specify two osceallaris clown fish and 2 snowflake clowns

Wow!!!!
Four clowns in the same tank? I hope I am wrong but once they mature, you will probably dealing with a lot of aggression from them. Sorry to get off topic, just wanted to point that out in case you didn't know.

[Clownemone]

I got the same NLS pellets and found out the pellets are too big for my juvenile clowns. You can either exchange it with the 0.5mm formula or if you already opened it you can also slightly crush the pellets to make them smaller.

I refreeze unused frozen food in a tiny Tupperware since it's so quick and easy to thaw them again the next day.

And yeah, I was thinking the same thing as browning but I didn't wanna say anything as it's off topic. I'm hoping you're planning on separating them when they get matured?

[JonV88]

We'll now I have 2 I guess I'll return the osceallaris clowns didn't know that good to know

[cloak]

Try soaking those pellets in a cup of saltwater for a few minutes before feeding them.. This will make them a little bit more pliable, as opposed to a tiny little rock.

[Palting]

Clowns will eat anything. Eventually. They're not eating one day after you put them in as nothing to do with the type of food. Yours are just too new and still acclimating. Give them time.

I dislike frozen food. Too much of a bother. DO you rinse it or not, can you refreeze it or not, does it get freezer burn or not, does it carry bacteria or not, does it carry parasites and disease or not.......too many questions with no definitive answers. I just feed pellets, flakes, IO gel food, nori. I have 14 fish in my tank as of the last count, and they are all thriving and mature in a tank that's almost 4 years old now. No fsh has died from starvation nor malnutrition, all are active and healthy, AND colorful.

[JonV88]

So I shouldn't freak if they havn't eaten since I got them on fri

[JonV88]

Question they havnt eaten so the food that just lays at bottom of tank raised ammonia I did a water change siphoning out the bad food and still had .25 so added amquel plus if I test with API test kit should my ammonia show 0 in the morning

[Saltliquid]

I always do this and you could use ammo lock continually for ammonia in quarantine, these are just a couple more options t think about!

Fresh frozen bag of blended and added planktonic frozen life at several sizes and mixed food in fresh salt water ready to thaw out as needed then place in bottles.
I usually make 30 to 40 of these bags each year or two.

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Add half a cup of pure salt to each part of my mix so that bacteria does not form for a long time by making the salinity in my mix at least three times the oceans salinity.
Fish expel salts quite affectively, so it's fine to do this to enable foods to sit for a day or so out of the fridge with out life threatening bacteria forming on the food particles.

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With this I fill two plastic containers with salt water ,one for the I mix and the other for the F mix, these are also handy to direct feed anemones with.
Fill the I marked bottles with what goes through the fine aquarium netting and the F marked bottles gets filled with what does not go through the net.

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All done.

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In the freezer.

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Thawed out bottles marked F for this tank.

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Every one pigging out.

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The F and the I bottles sit ready for next feeding times.

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[JonV88]

They finally ate, placed 6 live brine shrimp last night in tank right now gone