nutrition

Fish Nutrition – Short Bites Proper nutrition of captive fish is a very complicated subject. Virtually everything known about this topic is derived from fisheries science and therefore is related to growing fish for human food – where the fastest growth rate is most important. Long-term captive...

pictured are my kryptonite candy canes they seem to be enjoying the new food! I wish they would split. Anyone know the optimal conditions to grow these faster?

I fish regularly and I'm wondering if there's any reason that freshwater fish meat wouldn't be a good source of food for my reef tank if I blended up some scraps and froze it like regular frozen fish food.

Hey guys and girls! I was wondering: I have 6 sexy shrimp in a aquamedic armatus XS pico tank with a couple of mushrooms, sand and rocks. I am looking for pellets or other kind of food to feed the sexy shrimp but have not yet been succesfull. My problems: - If i feed, some pellets or mysis...

Hi All, While there's plenty of articles and topics mentioning "how difficult it is to keep them", i couldn't find much around an ideal diet for them. (E.g.: mix of flakes, meaty foods, nori, x times per day). I'm wondering if the experienced people here have an idea of the best things to...

Hi, I’m just in the process of cycling my tank, and I’m thinking ahead a bit and wondering what to feed my corals with. I’ve bought a bottle of Yello Sno, and I now have a couple of questions: 1) can Yello Sno be considered a complete coral food either by itself, or when used in conjunction...

I want to upgrade the food I feed to my fish this year. Please help me add diversity to their diet We had our first fish loss this year, and has me worrying about nutrition. Fish : 2 occelaris clowns (4+ yrs old) 1 orchid dottyback 1 yellow watchman goby 1 cleaner shrimp 2 Turbo snails 2...

Nutramar Marine Complete Shots are suitable for everyday feeding for your fish, LPS corals, and other invertebrates. Sticks easily to the side of the tank or rockwork allowing your fish to graze whilst giving you a close-up view of your fish feeding! This food is cold extruded to ensure no loss...

I saw this two days ago and thought they would have corrected it by now but they still have not so I thought I would share it with the community. I bought 5 because I wasn't sure how long they lasted. I wish I bought 12 given the price mistate. These should be $16 per bottle.

I'm seeking general advice on feeding quantity for some snails, crabs, and shrimp. I have a new 10 gallon invert quarantine tank and just put in the following initial CUC order 5 days ago: 50 Dwarf Cerith 16 Nassarius Vibex 17 Florida Cerith 14 Astraea Snails 2...

Hey folks, Do you create your own coral food? What ingredients do you use and do you see positive effects from feeding your corals with it? Here's my formula created mainly for LPS, but its smaller particles reach some SPS too. What do you think about it, does the ingredients make sense...

I've heard about the problem of Hanna's Magnesium colorimeter reading high and recently learned that you can fill out a form on the Hanna website to get them to send out a new Reagent to correct the issue. But has anyone not had to do this and is getting similar results to other tests they do? I...

Hello! I have been around for a few years in the hobby and just set up my upgraded tank. I have been seeding the tank with Algaebarn copepods (around 25,000) and gave them time to mature in the tank, dosing phytoplankton in the tank daily to ensure pod population and maturation of that...

I got this hammer a few months ago. Initially it was nice and fluffy but has since receded pretty harshly. I initially thought that the water might be too dirty so I stepped up the water changes. Then I read last week that they may prefer slightly dirty water and that I was probably throwing the...

Does anyone know the differences between the Hikari Saki-Hikari Marine Herbivore and Hikari Seaweed Extreme? What about the difference between Saki-Hikari Marine Carnivore, Hikari Marine-A and Hikari Marine-S? Thanks!

So I have a 55 gal with now 11 fish. I have 3 black clownfish, 2 orange clownfish, 3 banggai cardinal fish, a lawnmower Blenny, a bicolored angelfish, and a sailfin tang. I also have a Kenya tree with now 5 frags from fallen branches from it. A meteor shower, rainbow acan, a green star polyp...

In all seriousness, is is it safe to harvest and eat macroalgae from my own aquarium, specifically members of the Ulva genus (and possibly Caulerpa lentillifera in the future)? Is there something they would contain after having grown in my aquarium that would make them inedible or would a...

Hello, R2R! Did you know that with proper care and nutrition, fish can live approximately 30 years in captivity? Not all fish carry the same nutritional needs, so it is important to feed your herbivores, omnivores and carnivores accordingly. Join in as we prepare a meal for Mango, our...

I current have 1 CBS and 10 cerith Snails in my display that I have begun to fallow. I have some Coraline algae in there too. I'd like to eradicate my spionid worms aswell, but in order to do that I'd need to have no food come to the bottom. Another thing is if I have no nitrates...won't...

5g bcaa (unflavoured, no additives) 125 ml vinegar 375 ml ro water

TL;DR: - an 8 year old reef/ fish store specializing in a wide range of exotic to household name corals with multiple display tanks (gorgeous ones) and at least 8 frag tanks in the customer side of the store (and a dozen more in the back), and they don't know a single PAR value for what they...

I'm curious to find out what people are using their dosing pumps for! Mainly other than standard 2-part. What other supplements can we automate by incorporating dosing pumps? Diluting products that normally are dosed by drops or caps? Using automatic magnetic stirrers, to suspend solids? Come...

Hey guys, I’m mooking into getting a ruby red dragonet from my lfs. I have a refugium all set up and running with tons of pods. I would eventually like to get him onto mysis, but was also wondering if brine would work? I’ve read that they can eat them, but how does the nutrition of the two foods...

Last week I was shopping for food at my local Jewel-Osco and saw in the fish department they had live blue point oysters, littleneck clams and mussels and was thinking of getting some for my Reef lobster. That being said I wasn't sure if it would be safe to add them into the lobsters tank. The...

Hello everyone! There are a lot of products out there, but I've been confused for the algae lovers. Should I be using Hakari Seaweed Extreme, sheets of nori, or both? How often would you give it to them for either? Thanks!