Plankton Diet For Fish

[rfrankle]

While researching possibilities for my next fish addition, I am considering several species ... especially Heniochus diphreutes that need a strictly plankton diet.

I’m curious about the best way to feed them ... will frozen foods do the trick? ... or what other suggestions / options should I explore?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Following. I’m not sure and Dont have experience, but That’s a nice fish. (I’m gonna need a bigger tank )

It seems like the plankton thing might be overblown. It’s implied that it’s much much easier than an Idiol and eats Everything including flakes n pellets.


http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/poor...hooling-bannerfish-heniochus-diphreutes-3152/

 

[Instigate]

They are often confused with a non reef safe fish, Heniochus acuminatus, that looks very similar.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

I would suspect you could eventually get it to eat frozen foods if you mix them with cyclops or baby brine shrimp. Perhaps reef roids would work? Or at least a plankton additive such as Seachem Zooplankton.

 

[Paul B]

They live alongside Moorish Idols and I have dove with them in Tahiti and kept them a few times. They are not a difficult fish and should eat frozen mysis and pieces of clam.
Not a bad looking fish either and rather common.

 

[Maritimer]

Mysis are plankton. Brine shrimp are plankton. Calanus are plankton. Most of the things you're probably already feeding are plankton!

"Plankton", technically, are any creatures that can't really go where they choose, but must drift with the ocean currents. Larval crabs, shrimp and clownfish are plankton. So are arctic lion's mane jellyfish, which can grow longer than a blue whale (though not nearly as heavy!)

You should be just fine in terms of what this fish will eat.

~Bruce

 

[rfrankle]

Mysis are plankton. Brine shrimp are plankton. Calanus are plankton. Most of the things you're probably already feeding are plankton!

"Plankton", technically, are any creatures that can't really go where they choose, but must drift with the ocean currents. Larval crabs, shrimp and clownfish are plankton. So are arctic lion's mane jellyfish, which can grow longer than a blue whale (though not nearly as heavy!)

You should be just fine in terms of what this fish will eat.

~Bruce

Thanks .... That clears things up a lot! Now, just need to be able to locate a vendor with them in stock

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Mysis are plankton. Brine shrimp are plankton. Calanus are plankton. Most of the things you're probably already feeding are plankton!

"Plankton", technically, are any creatures that can't really go where they choose, but must drift with the ocean currents. Larval crabs, shrimp and clownfish are plankton. So are arctic lion's mane jellyfish, which can grow longer than a blue whale (though not nearly as heavy!)

You should be just fine in terms of what this fish will eat.

~Bruce

I hadn't realized that, but yeah I guess "plankton" would include a lot of things we might not really associate with that category.