Foods

[NM354]

After talking about phosphates in foods in a different thread, what foods does everyone feed their fish/ corals/ inverts?
I feed Formula two pellets and piscine entergetics misis to my fish. My goniopora I target feed cyclopeeze, frogspawn gets silversides as well as the open brain.

[wwest]

I basicly feed mine frozen brine, kent marine zooplex, and kent marine vitamins. i am looking into more foods and aditives..

[stang5_o2002]

I alternate all different kinds of frozen meaty foods and formula one flakes. I usually feed every other day. The anemone, lobster and plate coral get spot fed once or twice a week.

[Rob]

i usea ll types of things
formula one flake
brine shrimp (occasionally)
baby brine
mysis shrimp
cyclops-eeze

and for corals i use
phyto
rotifers
golden pearls

well thats what i can think of now.. :)

[pham411]

daily fish foods blended together fed daily:
baby brine
mysis
ocean plankton
spirulina flakes
cyclops-eeze powder
mega marine angle
and for my picky fish who only eat live foods i catch ghost shrimp

filter feeders:
phyto
rotifers
golden pearls
coral vital

pretty much it

[wildeone]

I feed my anemone silversides, but I didn't know frogspawn liked it as well. How much and how often?

[Raggamuffin]

Blood worms
Brine shrimp
Baby brine (mostly for my corals)
Angel mix

All those are the frozen

and a Phyto solution.

[Rob]

I feed my anemone silversides, but I didn't know frogspawn liked it as well. How much and how often?
neither of my anemones will touch silversides...
i have to feed them raw shrimp, calm, or krill

[wwest]

do you guys feed your anemones with a baister, tweezers or just let the clown do it?

[Rob]

personally i use tweezers

[wwest]

my clown feeds them for the most part but i am going to start feeding them by hand once or twice a week..

[V]

anems i gross feed with chopped squid or baby ocy! ive only been stung once feeding by hand, & even then it wasn;t much! to be honest i thought statisticly i would be stung all the time, but seems the anem didn't react to my skin!
my biggest concern was from the female tomato clown. she would draw blood at times going after my hand! more tiny teeth than a pirahana.

ive never bought krill. how does that go down rob, they like it?

[Rob]

ah ha.. but they do react, you just usually dont feel it.
the nematocysts react to pressure, so they are stinging you, you just dont feel it.. ;)

[NM354]

I feed my anemone silversides, but I didn't know frogspawn liked it as well. How much and how often?
I try to feed the frogspawn once a week, a small peice per head but I am lazy so that usually doesn't happen.

[fat walrus]

personally i use tweezers
sorry to hear that. :o :| :no:

[Rob]

lmao...
hey now.. ;)

[CarmieJo]

Every other day I feed a mixture of froxen mysis and Formula 1 flakes.

[wildeone]

Here is a great link with feeding tips that I found. I have requested that it be added to the Link Database: http://www.melevsreef.com/feedings.html

[pammy]

Which of your fish have you seen going after blood worms? I mixed some bloodworms last night with some enriched brine shrimp, and I didn't notice any fish going after the blood worms. They all went after the brine shrimp. I have a pygmy possum wrasse, a Tail Spot Blenny, purple firefish and a peppermint shrimp.

Thanks.
Pam

[salt-rookie]

I feed the following:

Fish:
Formula 1 & 2
Prime Reef
Spirilumia Flakes
Seaweed Selects (Red and Green)
Frozen Brine Shrimp

Corals:
Kent Phytomax (dead phyto to prevent Green Water blooms)
Golden Pearls (5-50 and 50-100 microgram sizes)
Cyclopeeze

To answer the original posting....the will be some phosphates in most all foods..it is a nutrient, or the end result thereof. The key is a good reverse flow to pull uneaten food out and a good skimmer. A small amount of food actually NEEDS to hit the substrate for the cleanup crew. Its just finding that "Perfect Balance".

Rob...I'm sorry sorry about the tweezer situation!:roll: