What do you mix w/ your fish food?

[scarface70706]

i was just wondering what you guys mix with your fish/reef food for bettering your livestock's health and build up their immunity to prevent parasites like ich and what not. ive been using garlic extract with rods food. i was thinking of mixing more in it to better my tank and keep everyone happy. what do you guys use / suggest? thank you in advance.

[Allmost]

Garlic is supposed to contain vit. D, which will strenghten the immune system, but from what I know/think, garlic extract that we buy doesnt have the Vit.D ! so its more for enticing fish to eat a new food, say pellets.
[they would have had VIT D all over the label if it did contain it]

NLS pellets are REALLY good, they are a good mix and contain vitamine D ! so I advice everyone to try to make that their fish's main diet.

when I feed nori to my tangs and angel, I enrich it with an amoni acid from brightwell, which is supposed to be the same AAs found in sponges. it has fatten up my moorish Idol and anchilles tang alot, so I advice that as well. specially for angel fish. [I have tried stopping it, and saw my idol loose wegith ! so .... ] once or twice a week I add ZOE from kent as well., let it dry and then feed the fish.

frozen foods such as PE mysis are very high in proteins as well, so an excellent food. since frozen, not much will attach to it, so it will most likely wash off as soon as the mysis hits water ... I have stopped enriching those.

if you raise brine shrimp and feed the tank, then try beta glucan as well, its good for fish immune system and color.

I also add lipotiv from fauna marine once a week to the nori or pellets, contains carotenoids [color pigments] and marine oil.

I have stopped using Selcon, after manufacturer told me the shelf life is less than 6 months after its made !!!

HTH,

[anderson0196]

Originally Posted by Allmost

I have stopped using Selcon, after manufacturer told me the shelf life is less than 6 months after its made !!!

Did not know this....Does it have a "use by" or "best by" date on it?

I'll have to check out my bottle tonight.

I don't see how anybody could use it all in a 6 month period - And if there is no way to tell when it was made (and therefore how long it sat on the LFS shelf) I would think there would be some risk to the mfg.

[doctorgori]

I normally don't buy into magic potions, but over the yrs I've used it, there might be something to this stuff (or rather its cheap enuff to overcome my usual skepticism)



I soak my food in it 1st then dump the food and whatever liquid is left into the tank

[Allmost]

Originally Posted by anderson0196

Did not know this....Does it have a "use by" or "best by" date on it?

I'll have to check out my bottle tonight.

I don't see how anybody could use it all in a 6 month period - And if there is no way to tell when it was made (and therefore how long it sat on the LFS shelf) I would think there would be some risk to the mfg.

nope ! no date on any of the bottels, [I went through almost all bottels I see in stores lol ]
so following NOT seeing a expiry date, and seeing how it changes color to redish over time, I sent them an email, and that was the reply I got ! I will see if I can dig up the email.

Im in Canada, so most of the bottels sit in the stores shelves more than 6 months before I buy ! which makes it almost useless ....

if you find more info on it, please update us Id be interested to know.

[Allmost]

Originally Posted by doctorgori

I normally don't buy into magic potions, but over the yrs I've used it, there might be something to this stuff (or rather its cheap enuff to overcome my usual skepticism)



I soak my food in it 1st then dump the food and whatever liquid is left into the tank

you know that is a coral food, and not fish enrichment right ?

http://www.seachem.com/Products/prod.../ReefPlus.html

but its a potent product for corals. I did see some good effects on my SPS when I used to dose this back in the days [stronger colors]. better and cleaner AAs have came out since

[cloak]

Originally Posted by scarface70706

i was just wondering what you guys mix with your fish/reef food for bettering your livestock's health and build up their immunity to prevent parasites like ich and what not. ive been using garlic extract with rods food. i was thinking of mixing more in it to better my tank and keep everyone happy. what do you guys use / suggest? thank you in advance.

Nothing, just a bunch of variety. Here's a picture of what I was feeding at one time. (freshwater & saltwater)

[scarface70706]

^^^^^^^^ DAAAAAAAAMN!!!!!!!! lol thats a lot of food.

[Apparition]

Originally Posted by cloak

Nothing, just a bunch of variety. Here's a picture of what I was feeding at one time. (freshwater & saltwater)

Yep, that's what I used to do as well. I had about a dozen different foods as well as some frozen, blended seafood. I also added in phytoplankton, nori, selcon and garlic and then this was frozen in thin sheets for feeding. Fish never went wanting for anything and it had something for everyone.

[Paul B]

Just fish oil

[lucas73]

Do you guy's refrigerate your Selcon and Vita Chem food supplement's?I've heard to refrigerate and not to refrigerate.

[DrBegalke]

I mostly use Rod's food, which has garlic and selco already added.