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HOT TIPS Column: December 2006 Issue of Advanced Aquarist

December's theme is "Favorite Foods for Feeding Your Tank." What are your favorite foods for feeding your fish, corals, etc and why?

Your tips and tricks will help new and existing reefkeepers and also helps to bring the hobby to the next level (plus it's just cool to get published in a magazine like Advanced Aquarist).

When published, your hot tip will have your username published (along with your real name if you so desire). Every month we will be running a new HOT TIP thread so stay tuned and help out when you can.

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Let the submissions begin!

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[Len]

Just about every fish I've tried enjoy PE Mysis Shrimp. But I have to vary up their diet, so I feed Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef (frozen) and Reef Nutrition Arctipods, with the occasional live brine shrimp as a "candy" treat.

[beaslbob]

My "main stay" is plain ol' flake food.

But my banquii cardinal only eats frozen squid and mysis. Especially the squid.

I also feed frozen cylopeeze which is eaten by the fish as well as the corals and clam.

Those are served up with a turkey baster.

I also feed live phyto and rotifers which I culture in 2 liter jars. Which I just pour into the tank.

and finally the tangs do have access to live macros.

Bob

[btodd43]

Frozen mysis,put in a bowl with aquarium water then a chunk of my concoction,-cyclopeze,marine snow,oyster eggs,formula one,formula two. frozen flat in a ziploc. Every 2 days.

[ChrisRD]

A few favorites that come to mind - PE Mysis, Cyclopeeze, Spirulina, Nori, Dulse, various fresh chopped seafoods...

[Bingo]

I make my own. I buy what is on sale at the seafood counter. Throw it in the blender with some freshly made saltwater, cyclopeeze, mysis, selcon, garlic extreem, some flake for color and blend.

pour it into mini ice cube trays and freeze.

[Laura D]

I make my own too. Sometimes I blend up a bunch of ocean fish and shrimp with selcon and various supplements, then freeze flat in a baggie, other times I just by frozen shrimp or fish and slice off pieces as I need them.

At my grocery store I can buy individually wrapped frozen wild salmon pieced for 99 cents, and I find the portion size is just right to leave in the freezer and use up in a timely manner.

My anemone loves slivers of wild salmon.

[LA-Lawman]

I use the hikari brand frozen foods ( mysis, brine, spirulina brine, bloodworms, daphnia, and krill), cyclopeeze, and the san francisco bay brand of frozen cyclops. I soak food in zeocon, vit C, and garlic.... and the wolf it down.... almost a frenzy!

[Deo]

I feed frozen bloodworms...sometimes i blend some beef heart w/ liquid garlic, scatter them thinly on a plastic sheet and put them in the freezer. Here in the Philippines, we can buy lots of live tilapia. I set aside the fisheggs , put them in the ref and feed a pinch or two once in a while. Important thing is, I dont overfeed. I stop throwing in food when the fish dont catch them anymore.
Deo

[dadstank]

am i wrong???

i feed my tang, damsel, and convict blenny green marine algea everyother day. my christmas tree coral gets either Marine Snow, or Microvert every opposite day.

do y'all keep loads of fish/corals?

i only have 1. sailfin tang 1. damsel (three years young) 1. convict blenny 1. christmas tree coral 1. kenya tree 1. cluster of white star polyps 1. cluster of green button polyps 1. HUGE stoad tool leather 1. cluster of cabbage coral....

its a question i have been asking for a while now........

[turnburn]

I used to feed my fish a whole smörgåsbord of different foods (flake, bloodworms, mysis, brine).

About 6 months ago I tried New Life Spectrum. My fish went nuts for it. Now with the exception of seaweed for my tang and angel, thats all I feed them.

After 6 months they still snap it right up and their color is just beautiful.

[GreshamH]

I feed Phyto-Feast for my "pods" and filter feeders. Roti-Feast for my SPS, LPS and "pods", and Arcti-Pods for my LPS and fish. When I have a culture going, I feed live enriched rotifers and baby brine shrimp, for my corals and fish. I also feed Formula 2 flake to my fish

[Wazzel]

I like to hit the seafood market a buy a little of this and that. Throw about 1/3 in a blender and puree fine. The rest I toss in and leave slightly chunky. This way I can feed the fish and coral in one shot. I feed my tangs unseasoned sushi wrappers.

[eric.m.s]

rods food, pappone, AA's and some other nitrogen goodies.

[GreshamH]

Pappone....With or with out Human Growth Hormone?

[eric.m.s]

without. HGH is a waste of money, not to mention illegal. it is highly unstable and unusable to corals when still in HGH form...which they would never be able to get.

I use my own AA complex, nitrogen source, and blended carbon source mixed in with the pappone. I use a 2 part system for day and night, alternating days. it's all about the c : n : p ratio

[Mike612]

Nori is by far the best thing to get finicky herbivores started. I got a Moorish Idol started on this, Powder Blue Tang, Venustus Angel, etc... They'd rather pick at food then chase after it and so this allows them to pick and it's also nutritious!