Feeding

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Enough to keep them alive? Probably. Enough to keep them happy and healthy, probably not.
A better, more varied diet will make them stronger and better able to deal with stress and warding off disease. For the 118 seconds it takes to prepare some mysis, it's likely a worthwhile investment.

Hey aquattro. What would u advise me to feed my fishes? They don't seem to bother going for the mysis no more. Should I alternate flake with pellets?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by jason604

Hey aquattro. What would u advise me to feed my fishes? They don't seem to bother going for the mysis no more. Should I alternate flake with pellets?

I would try other forms of plankton, bits of raw fish, etc. Once, my fish stopped eating mysis. I realized the pack was quite old, so bought a fresh one, they went back to it
If it's fresh, add it at the same time as flake, they'll pick it back up in no time.

[Starry]

Soaking it in Selcon or Garlic can also make it more appealing to the fishies.

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I would try other forms of plankton, bits of raw fish, etc. Once, my fish stopped eating mysis. I realized the pack was quite old, so bought a fresh one, they went back to it
If it's fresh, add it at the same time as flake, they'll pick it back up in no time.

Thx I will try mixing the two to see how it is. I mix reef roids with phytoplankton for my sps and add mysis for my LPS. But I've heard that I'm supposed to use zooplankton instead of phyto. Is this true?

Originally Posted by Starry

Soaking it in Selcon or Garlic can also make it more appealing to the fishies.

Yes I always soak my mysis in garlic solution. Only my shrimps seems to go completely nuts over it lol.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by jason604

I mix reef roids with phytoplankton for my sps and add mysis for my LPS. But I've heard that I'm supposed to use zooplankton instead of phyto. Is this true?

No idea, I've never fed corals.

[asylumdown]

zooplankton is a pretty broad spectrum term that covers everything in size from rotifers (barely visible to the naked eye) to cyclopeeze and tigger pods (large enough to make out anatomical structures), to potentially even larger animals. The term plankton just means that the organism is small and does not have the ability to intentionally swim (i.e., even if they can move at the micro scale, they're still completely at the mercy of ocean currents). SPS corals do not all have the same sized polyps, and not all consume the same size of food. Some zooplankton will be too large, some zooplankton might be too small.

Really the terms zoo and phyto plankton only mean that the thing is either a planktonic plant or animal. Saying you should feed corals one or the other is on oversimplified way to look at it. That's like saying they should either eat meat or plant, when in fact they are likely opportunistic omnivores adapted to a specific particle size.

[DumpTruck]

i am very new to this hobby but i just feed my clowns and my gobbey mysis and my corals amenio acids. everything is happy and full of colour. i have a friend that uses the garlic with his mysis and the fish love it.

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

No idea, I've never fed corals.

I don't understand why people waste their money feeding corals yet target feeding them. Waste of money IMO. Fish poop is good enough.

[Dearth]

I feed my fish a mixture of flake and pellet food every day and when I remember to do it I will dump half a cube of defrosted shrimp/phytoplankton or a mixture of both.

As to feeding coral I have never fed or target fed my coral and they all grow like crazy.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

I don't understand why people waste their money feeding corals yet target feeding them. Waste of money IMO. Fish poop is good enough.

Agreed. I think I've target fed my frogspawn twice to show someone that they actually can eat meat, but other than that, fish poop is the only thing on the menu