The 3 most nutritious foods for your fish?

[Bigfish of La.]

As the title states, which foods are most beneficial for fish?

 

[jsker]

Most will go with LRF, I make my own

 

[Paul B]

1- clams
2-clams
3-clams

 

[BestMomEver]

1- clams
2-clams
3-clams

I can only get the frozen ones and they don’t defrost well... at least not like mysis or brine does. How do you feed it?

 

[happyhourhero]

Lrs and self made. If you live near the coast and have fresh seafood you can make some great food

 

[BestMomEver]

Most will go with LRF, I make my own

What is LRF? Sorry to be stupid.....

 

[madweazl]

I can only get the frozen ones and they don’t defrost well... at least not like mysis or brine does. How do you feed it?

I thaw littleneck clams on the counter than rinse them after about an hour; havent had any issues this way. I drop them in the tank whole and the fish really seem to enjoy picking at it. I typically leave it in the tank for an hour or two and remove the shell.

 

[madweazl]

What is LRF? Sorry to be stupid.....

LRS

 

[Sorcha2]

1. Nutremeva ova
Everything eats it from fish to most of my corals. It's the only thing my mandarin will eat other than live pods.

 

[Paul B]

I buy the biggest chowder clams I can find. They sell them in a fish market or bait store. I freeze them and slice of paper thin slices.

 

[cracker]

I really don't know what the most nutritious but I think that a "wide" variety of whole food from the sea is best for a long life.

 

[alanbetiger]

Depends on what you are feeding. Herbivore vs carnivore. Mandarin. etc

 

[Bigfish of La.]

I feed reef frenzy nano, PE mysis, PE flakes, and fish eggs for desert.

I feel the reef frenzy is most nutritious, but they go nuts for the fish eggs.

 

[Kmsutows]

I second the fish eggs. Also I feel it's best to choose a nice variety of fresh food. I use LRS fish frenzy, mysis, clams, fish/prawn eggs, nori, sometimes rods and whenever I can find live black worms. Like another said, really depends what kind of fish you're feeding

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Best thing by far is variety. Get a lot of different frozen foods, a couple flake and/or pellet food. Make a blend of your own if you are up to it. Mysis, mysid, brine, plankton, Marine Cuisine, Rod's Food, LRS, Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef/ Formula 1 and 2, PE flake or pellets, New Life Spectrum, nori sheets. All are great choices and we should all work on having a good mix to feed our fish a mixed diet. For flake food I really liked Prime Reef, all my fish loved it.

 

[hart24601]

It's hard to define nutrituous. We talking about highest caloric value per gram, or most variety of vitamins, or the highest amount of vitimins per gram but less overall variety of vitamins and then how about breakdown of fatty acids omega 3 and such and ratios of DHA:EPA of those fatty acids.

Then have to consider what you are feeding and their needs, algae feeders or a lionfish or anthias.

That's why most recommend a variety or a food like LRS or rods that has a big range of ingredients.

 

[40B Knasty]

I always used Hikari mysis, brine w/spirulina, and mega marine. San Francisco Bay mini blood worms. Reef Nutrition Tigger Pods. After checking out the LRS products. I am going to look into those.

 

[Sharvey103]

LRS . and make my own

 

[ReefFrenzy]

Thanks to everyone for all the LRS love! I certainly believe that a variety of ingredients and diversity is beneficial in an all around general aquarium food. A good mix of proteins and fatty acids can help bolster immunity and certainly help with conditioning broodstock for spawning. The proof is in the pudding, or fish food as they say and our website has a dozen testimonials where LRS has aided captive breeding efforts. http://www.larrysreefservices.com/testimonials.html Lot's of other great foods mentioned in the thread as well, and we also add PE Mysis to our blends.

 

[Paul B]

Larry, as you know, I use your food every day. I also give it to my fish. Great stuff.