Best Vitamin/Supplement for our fish?

MCooper · Oct 28, 2016

What are some of the best supplements/probiotics that are available?

stevo01 · Oct 28, 2016

I use vitachem and selcon boost.

bios · Oct 28, 2016

Hi
I will say lipovit tropic marin

Lionfish Lair · Oct 28, 2016

I get a lot of my supplements from Seahorse Source. Their probiotics are killer.

All the the things in gold wrappers are from there...

ca1ore · Oct 29, 2016

Some good suggestions, though all completely unnecessary of course. Money better spent on a more varied diet.

Lionfish Lair · Oct 29, 2016

You can't get everything from a varied diet. Pro biotics for one, reliably sources for vitamin C and so on. I use supplements because a frozen diet is less than optimum.

MCooper · Oct 29, 2016

I am very interested in this and nutrition overall, so wanna get some great resources if people have any. I certainly don't think it is a waste

Elegance Coral · Oct 29, 2016

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bios · Oct 29, 2016

DrCooper said:
I am very interested in this and nutrition overall, so wanna get some great resources if people have any. I certainly don't think it is a waste

I do this from many years
Add 2 cloves of garlic in 120 ml of ro water and 10 drops of lipovit
Milkshake everiting and place in a spray doser
Every time feed fishes i spray it 2 times to the food

MCooper · Oct 29, 2016

bios said:
I do this from many years
Add 2 cloves of garlic in 120 ml of ro water and 10 drops of lipovit
Milkshake everiting and place in a spray doser
Every time feed fishes i spray it 2 times to the food

I am skeptical about garlic as I have started to see it is not beneficial in the long term.

bios · Oct 29, 2016

Dont know.... Dr
but antioxidant properties are undobtes
I use it for above aim

Paul B · Oct 29, 2016

Live worms

bios · Oct 29, 2016

Undoubted ......sorry t9

Antics · Oct 29, 2016

I've had good experience with Aquaforest's FishV at home, and at work I've seen Ecosystem's Fish Solution used on an aquarium with 6 ich'd up Purple Tangs with HLLE. They all recovered and the HLLE healed. I don't know if I can attribute that entirely to Fish Solution, but I figure most recommendations in this thread will be anecdotal.

Salty1962 · Oct 29, 2016

Selcon and Garlic with all live food and coral food.

ca1ore · Oct 29, 2016

I almost never use vitamins (and never garlic), feed a varied diet, and have no observed nutritional deficiencies in any of my fish. No HLLE on any of my tangs. If people want to 'think' vitamin supplements are necessary, be my guest; doesn't mean it's true though.

FWIW in the early days of marine fish keeping when the available foods were limited in comparison to toady, vitamins might have been necessary ...... and I stress, might. Today it's just Marketing. Don't be a victim :lol:

Lionfish Lair · Oct 29, 2016

No one said it was necessary, as in your fish will die without them. I've had fish live a very long time before I ever supplemented... doesn't mean it isn't beneficial. Studies supports things like high doses of vitamin C and immunologic response. Beta Glucan is awesome and now well studied in its benefits for fish. A lot of people have had successful fish tanks without ever dosing calcium or any other supplements, but some people are interested in tweaking the parameters.... same with supplements and fish. Just because we are getting them to survive, doesn't mean we couldn't be doing more. If someone isn't into it, they're not into it. If someone IS into it and are looking for a little more information, this is the place to come for a nice discussion. My interest in it has nothing to do with marketing, but everything to do with research.

Bdog4u2 · Oct 30, 2016

I use selcon on new arrivals and every once in awhile but I mostly feed a varied diet including fresh seafood and since half my fish are over 10 years old and I never quarantined most of them it seems to work for me

melypr1985 · Oct 30, 2016

Salty1962 said:
Selcon and Garlic with all live food and coral food.

Long term use of garlic has been linked to liver damage in fish. It's best to save the garlic to use with picky eaters, or those who refuse to eat all together. Just FYI

MCooper · Oct 31, 2016

melypr1985 said:
Long term use of garlic has been linked to liver damage in fish. It's best to save the garlic to use with picky eaters, or those who refuse to eat all together. Just FYI

Thanks Mely! Can you send me articles regarding this as I am very curious the to learn more (the biology nerd in me).
I ordered selcon and aquaforest fish v