Feeding..

[ad_aware]

Hi all, erhm going for a holiday soon about 5 days.. may i know how I can feed my fishes while away on holiday?

I dun think they are pellet trained... well never tried pellets aniwaez.. but mostly frozen brimes...

[mUAr_cHEe]

Give me your house keys. I will help you feed.

Seriously, if they are not pellet trained. I think you might need to get someone to come over and feed them.

Otherwise, you feed them alot before you leave, and hope they are still alive when you come back. I am serious.

[andylee]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but just tat my issue is about feeding too

I've been feeding my clowns and tangs ML henry's food mixed with Formula II pellets. Both sink quite fast and once the food reach the bottom the fishes won't touch them anymore, so leaving quite a fair amount of waste food on sandbed.

How do i keep them afloat? or to raise the food sunk to the bottom?

[cityofangels]

andylee: How about trying flakes that float, instead of sinking? At the moment, I am not aware of floating pellets for marine fishes.

[mUAr_cHEe]

How do i keep them afloat? or to raise the food sunk to the bottom? 

thats what scavengers and bristle stars are for. They finish all the left food.

[andylee]

Last time i fed my fishes flakes, then after awhile 2 of my clowns stopped eating, tried using henry's food to entice them but still won't eat.. in the end wasted away.

Now the new clowns and tangs feeding greedily on henry's and formula 2 pellets. So afraid if revert back to flakes again the cycle will repeat.

Have scavengers already. But the point is dun wanna waste my food and majority goes to feed scavengers instead of fishes

[Gouldian]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but just tat my issue is about feeding too

I've been feeding my clowns and tangs ML henry's food mixed with Formula II pellets. Both sink quite fast and once the food reach the bottom the fishes won't touch them anymore, so leaving quite a fair amount of waste food on sandbed.

How do i keep them afloat? or to raise the food sunk to the bottom?

You can try Salifert Energy Plus. They floats.

I used it by chance and have since reccomended to a few close reefers.

HTH

[andylee]

Salifert Energy Plus?

it's pellets?

Thanks bro, but the solution i'm really looking for is to ensure my fishes eat the food i'm feeding now and to minimise waste food going straight to sandbed

Will try the Salifert one once the frozen food runs out

[FuEl]

Finely chopped prawns, squid or mussels work best in fattening up your fish. If you fatten them enough they should withstand 5 days without any problems.

[Gouldian]

Yes, Salifert Energy Plus are pellets.

Try to first coat your pellets with some henry's food to get your fishes to recognise them as food. Subsequently, they will go for it automatically liao.

Get some bottom dwellers such as certain gobies, small hermits, black cucumber or sand dollar to clear up the food on the sandbed.

HTH

[totoro17]

im new to this...wat are scavengers and bristle stars??? any pictures?

[vtech2]

You could also try NSW Marine Pellets, got it from Jireh. Its semi floating pellets wont sink to the sandbed quickly....

[d88p]

Hi all, erhm going for a holiday soon about 5 days.. may i know how I can feed my fishes while away on holiday?

I dun think they are pellet trained... well never tried pellets aniwaez.. but mostly frozen brimes...

i went away for 2 nights and when i came home..... alot of my fishes got attacked.

my suggestion to you is get someone to go over to your place to help feed the fishies

[barnacle]

I was away for 7 days. No feeding. But heavy

feeding b4 I left. Most important equiptment

must be tip top. make sure they dun fail.