Fresh macro algaes vs dry algaes for my fish

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Yesterday i made a new video


Now on the video you dont see it but not far from the fresh macro algaes i had a clip with dry nori and they totally ignored it. And it dawn on me what is, what would be the advantages of fresh vs dry .

Does anybody have any thoughts on the subject; its not a catch, its a discussion. I never thought about it before having the two clips side by side before.

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You have some very heathy fish bellying up to the salad bar! I think it's great to be able to feed "Healthy" Macro to our animals when possible. It may be difficult to find a variety (red, green, and brown) of heathy algae that your fish will except. I find it very cool to have Macro growing in my refuge to feed the display, but IMO a verity of Dry would be better than one Live algae....that may not be so heathy in the first place.?. Just a thought
 
Just like human foods, some of the vitamins and other organics in foods get destroyed on cooking or storing.

My fish eat the macroalgae from my refugium (Caulerpa racemosa) and some I collect in the ocean (various species).
 
You have some very heathy fish bellying up to the salad bar! I think it's great to be able to feed "Healthy" Macro to our animals when possible. It may be difficult to find a variety (red, green, and brown) of heathy algae that your fish will except. I find it very cool to have Macro growing in my refuge to feed the display, but IMO a verity of Dry would be better than one Live algae....that may not be so heathy in the first place.?. Just a thought


Its actually true that variety is the key to healthy fish. I have 13 different algaes to rely on, plus the dry ones, and flakes, mysis and so on. Variety also keeps your fish interested; some people are wondering why their fish stop eating at some point......How would you like oats meal every day 24/7 365 days a year. They're the same. My fresh algae clip is once every 2-3 weeks about so i don't destroy my supply.

One thing is strange, the red ones are not popular with my fish for some reason, not even gracilaria. Very strange for tangs. They love chaeto, and the mexican caulerpa which is a relief . So i rely on the dry red ones which they like , go figure.

I also make my own food( shrimps, octopus, calimary , sardines etc.....) and feed them in smal blocks in those clips. Be carefull with that, though; Phosphate rises quickly because of whats in those frozen fish in the market so once every 3 days is enough. You can get the receipy from my blog.
 
is there a way to get fish to eat dry nori (if fresh seaweed is N/A)....... i have the gourmet grazer thing stocked with nori and the fish just ignore it.....are there any substitutes that i could buy in a produce market or something?
 
It was suggested to me that instead of introducing more phosphates into the tank; using my fresh macro algaes growing in my fuge, i'm just recycling and thus not adding more to the tank.

So thats another positive note for it.





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is there a way to get fish to eat dry nori (if fresh seaweed is N/A)....... i have the gourmet grazer thing stocked with nori and the fish just ignore it.....are there any substitutes that i could buy in a produce market or something?

Try putting a few garlic drops on your dry nori; it usually attract and induce the fish to eat the nori. I let the drops sink into the nori first before putting it into my clip and then feeding it to them.

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I use the Ken garlic drops in the middle as well as a few (just a few drops of the selcon vitamins every 2 weeks only.) on my dry seeweeds. Too much vitamins can damage the liver and kidneys. The spirulina is when i make my own food. Its powdered plankton if you like very high protein content.


I use other dry seeweed that i find in health store ( tree huger store) not the muscle building store, lol. sobeys, or bulk store do have those.

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This one is kelp and is very good for bottom dwelllers, urchins, snails, crabs and so on, it can last from 3-7 days and keep your crabs and other cleaners away from corals and this bag at $6 can last between a month to 3 month depending on how much of a cleaning crew you have. Sorry but if you thing your cleaning crew only survive with crumbs, no, they usually die of starvation, this way my crew survive and i haven't bough a single snail or any other thing in 2 years because they reproduce in my tank, because they have enough to eat. I attach this to magnets to the bottom and even the lawn mower blenny goes for it. Kelp is very good for your tank and doesn't pollute at all. Very rubbery. It expand about 10 times its size.


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For smaller bites in a clip and smaller critters. Pods like this alot they also nest in it!!!! You need pods for the mandarins and other special fish, if you don't feed the your tank properly, your population goes down. Too many tanks are over cleaned and sterile.
 

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