Fat, healthy, and happy fish

[chymos45]

In response to Jeremy's Gem tang post, and in an effort to not jack his FS thread, I'm starting a new one to try and figure out his secret. How often is everyone feeding your fish and how often?

I thought I was a heavy feeder with about half a shot glass once a day and a sheet of nori every 3 days or so for my fairly lightly stocked tank. The shot glass has varied frozen cubes, mysis, cyclops, flakes, pellets, 2 drops of garlic (no flaming here - not interested in a debate on the efficacy of the garlic), and a brightwell product I cannot remember the name.

Do you always have nori available to the fish?
Should I go for twice a day, meaning double the frequency/volume?
Is there some miracle product I am not using?

Someone please tell me how you get such fat and happy fish!!!:thumbs:

 

[gmpolan]

I have three tangs in my tank and i feed nori almost every day and they recieve frozen, brine flakes, etc every other day...

 

[phoenix20]

I feed my hippo, purple tang, and coral beauty a sheet of nori every day. I mix it up between the green, brown, and red seaweed every day to give them a bit of variety. I do this every morning when the lights first come on. It takes the 3 fish pretty much the entire day to go through the sheet. I have it on one of those "gutter guard" seaweed clips with the mesh screen so it takes them a while to poke at it and the nori doesn't go floating off in the water column.

About an hour after lights on, I feed them frozen food. Currently, I'm giving them about half a spoonful of Rods Food. It takes them about 2-3 minutes to devour everything in the water column. I leave the powerheads on and it blows around. I know a lot of folks turn theirs off, and this could be building up detritus for me on the rock, but I think the fish like the "hunt" of chasing after stuff floating in the water column.

Late in the afternoon, I'll drop in a few (maybe 20) of the smaller 1mm pellets. I make sure that they all get eaten. I'm probably feeding a lot, but the fish look happy and healthy with the variety of stuff they're getting.

 

[ralph atl]

When I had my Yellow FAT Tang (I gave it to Mami Dolphin who murdered it, lol), I had nori availble (2 times daily) with 3 or 4 drops of Selcon.

I fed twice a day:

Hikari Spiruella Brine & PE Mysis that Selcon was added for at least 20 minutes.

That is all that is needed. but you have to do it all.


pics are from 2007 or so.

 

[chymos45]

Sounds like nori is a common denominator, and so long as I take measures to keep it from tearing off and floating to inaccessible spots and causing chemistry issues, it should be available whenever the sun is up...

I will also up my feedings to 2x daily.

 

[ralph atl]

take about a quarter of a sheet (the kind from Publix that sells real sushi) fold the nori into a 2 inch square. Add Selcon (9.99 only). Selcon is just as important.

 

[dakota9]

I've read about mixing beta carotene in with fish food, I believe less as a health suppliment, and more as a color enhancement.

Has anyone ever attempted this? I know it's nearly impossible for a human to overdose on this vitamin, but what about fish and inverts?

 

[jason sartain]

Here is a video I posted a while back.I cut the nori into 2"x3"sheets then I cut it lenth wise into 1/4" strips so they can pull it off a strip at a time.
I feed 6 sheets at a time,once a day with frozen,flake,pellets, mixed in there too.