Week 41: Feeding fish - Selecting food for maximum health & longevity | 52 Weeks of Reefing
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- It's Week 41 of 52 Weeks of Reefing, and this week we are going in depth on our feeding practices in the BRS160! We'll cover fish foods including the right type of food, how often, how much and some cool feeding accessories and tips.
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While fish can survive in a lot of different types of foods their biologic functions have evolved around utilizing a certain mix of proteins, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. This is pretty similar to other pet foods. For instance many pet owners acknowledge their dogs and cats are carnivores and make an attempt to feed them protein rich foods which have minimal to no grain diets, many take it a step further and feed low carbohydrate or even raw foods almost completely comprised of the entire animal bones organs and all ground up to supply a very natural source of protein, minerals and vitamins.
At the highest level you have you basic categories of fish. Your carnivores and your herbivores Carnivores primarily diet being flesh which is very protein rich, and herbivores diet being primarily algae or plant material. In reality a good portion of fish in the reef aquarium are omnivores which mean they consume both algae and flesh.
So the first step in all this is recognizing the natural diets of the fish you selected for the tank. For the most part it is somewhat easy to recognize just from their behavior in the tank. Most of the herbivores or omnivores like tangs, some blennies and rabbit fish spend a majority of the day obviously looking for algae to peck off the surface of the rocks.
Carnivorous fish primarily eat flesh and this is pretty obvious with frozen foods clams, shrimp, squid and similar items which are all obviously meaty flesh of some type. While most fish will do best with a varied diet if you are going to select one you should do so my nutritional content. The food blends like the mega marines which have been fortified with nutrients do a great job of including a varied diet with a high protein and essential fat content but I think the most popular with seasoned reefers is the Canadian Mysis shrimp because it has a naturally high protein and fat content and doesn't need to be fortified.
So which foods do you prefer to feed your fish? Let us know in the comments area below, and be sure to vote in our latest poll by clicking the "i" in the upper right corner of the page.
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Just saw the part about the burgers/fries. DON'T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE, RYAN!
Vegan impossible burgers from BK are amazing!!!!
Dude try LRS my fish eat it like they are on something.
Hi, you should make a video of feeding plans for keeping mandarins, you know, for us who are new into the hobby for about a year.
I feed my fish..
LRS REEF FRENZY. .
what do you think about this type of food...my fish and corals loves it...nice video..lots of info..Thanks..
+jorge bonilla only thing I feed my tanks
This episode made me hungry!
+SPL +1
+SPL lol:)
I would have appreciated a section on foods to avoid and answers to some common food questions. Such as: "Is the nori I get at the grocery store ok?"
For my 180 gallon reef, I will feed frozen with a sheet of algae (folded a couple of times and cut into paper strip for easier removal). the next day i feed garlic soaked pellets and fish flakes later in the day) The different food options helps keep my tangs, clownfish and leopard wrasse happy.
i feed my clowns a mix between frozen mysis shrimp and a few healthy color enhancing pellets i only have two clowns so i use a whole cube of mysis because i also feed my coral and hermit crabs
See, for my herbivorous fish I like to get live algae like from algae barn and stick them in the rocks all over the tank so they can graze for it. They also seem to like the "fresh" stuff a lot more than dried
I love NLS Probiotix it makes my tanks so clean!
I have a Mandarin that eats Brine shrimp. I feed that tank little amounts often throughout the day/night. He is always out hunting so I figure I may aswell make it easy for him. Helps that its a massive tank for a tiny fish with 3 other tank mates (2ft cube, 1 mandarin 2 oscellaris and a blenny) we go through about a block of brine per day.
When are we getting 4k BRS TV? :D
I honestly never considered a feeding ring with my auto feeder. Definitely going to try using one
Dogs are not carnivores they are omnivores they technically don’t need a HIGH protein diet
day 1-Hykari day 2-notihng day 3-Mysis day 4-nothing
I finally got an aquarium yay. but can I feed my fish frozen food all the time instead of pellets ect
Love LRS Reef Frenzy. All the fish love it
Frozen food: mysis with algae and garlic. The fish love it. The easy days: pellets. I feed them once a day.
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You shoud test switch of the skimmer and only run the roller mat and see what happens...
a cube of LRS every evening
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Do you recommend rinsing frozen food before adding it to the tank? I've heard mixed reviews on this thought but not sure if it's unnecessary to do so. Thanks.
LRS blends all the way!
Reef Chilly really makes a difference, corals growing much faster and the entire tank goes crazy
Only frozen, mysis, lrs nano
Try the Innovative Marine algae feeder and their defroster, they both work great.
My clownfish will not eat shrimp of any kind. Only likes new life spectrum pellets that I crush for it. Its still small so maybe it will come around to it once it grows a bit
Hi guys thank you for all these great videos. I just tore down my 180 because we are remodeling our family room. I made many mistakes over my six year reefing journey. I have learned much along the way but have much much more to learn. I will be setting up a Red Sea Reefer after the work is done. Not sure what size yet most likely a 425 or 525. I have a bunch of Pukani, Fiji, and Reef Saver curing right now. Picked up my 2 MP40's and Vecta M1 from you guys. Went with a Reef Octopus Elite 200 skimmer. Looking at Kessil 360, Radions, or Hydra for lights. Will be a "Mixed" Reef but primarily LPS and Nems.
One of the mistakes I made was probably overfeeding. I used to go to the supermarket and buy clams, squid, shrimp, and sometimes fish to make a homemade blend of frozen food. I would also add frozen mysis, a sheet of nori, and sometimes pellet food. I'd add Selcon and blend it all up in stages (largest food first) so it didn't get soupy. What are your thoughts on this type of homemade food? Assuming its fed in moderation.
Thanks!
If you fish and cook it, you'll see a great catch has lean muscle and fat. Fish in wild go weeks without a meal building lean muscle. Ps. Organic in grocery store is crap young man. The only truly organic food comes from farm to table. Find a farm to feed yourself or grow your own. Fish yould be stalky not plump. Keep them lean and foraging. Board fish are fat fish. Watch your fish. When they forage you got the correct balance. Go fishing and see the real deal. Hardy lean fish last forever.
would love to see a diy reef rock video showing different mixes techniques and tricks to making reef rock..great videos
My clownfish, foxface damsels and chromises enjoy chopped squid
Hi begginer here and i have 2 clownfish for 3 days now and i notice that they dont eat their food. They try it but not swallow it. Im worried they might get hunbgry and die. I feeding them pellets and frozen food but they seems not to like it
As usual great video! Hey can I get one of them awesome shirts?
please!
***** T - Shirt? I'd be totally happy with that.
I get a bottle of tigger-pods, the live little red ones that you can get in the refrigerator at your local fish store, every month, turn off all of the powerheads and filters for about two hours, and dump them in and let them get down into the rocks. My mandarin (male) eats them happily. You have to leave the pods out in the bottle with the cap popped open to allow them to come to tempeture, which is annoying, but that's pretty much it. Here's the link to them: www.petsolutions.com/C/Live-Fish-Food/I/Live-Tigger-Pods.aspx
would love to see a video recommending what to do about feeding when going away on a weeks vacation and having non fish friends or family feeding the tanks.
I'd be nerve wrecked - what kinda holiday would it be to worry about how non fish (so called!) friends attend to feeding the lil fellers? Honestly, I'd be worried sick! Totally out of my tiny single celled mind!
Better have a family member or friend you can have come over
Get an auto feeder. Maybe multiple if you have a lot of fish, or will be gone for a long time.
This was 3 years ago. Haha
@@joegonzalez4188 Oh, I didn’t even realize that. Lol.
I had a Polluted tank before, I now use Red Seas No3 Po4- X every other week and it keeps Nitrates and Phosphates low.
We need a video of phytoplankton and rotifers how to culture them for our corals and fish
i like your vids, why sell high price equipment to budget and beginners reefers
Dr Tims Bene-Fish-Al, one cube in the morning and one at night. Along with reef chilli every 3rd day. yumm
Larry's Reef Frenzy and Omega One flakes. Frenzy 3 times a week with flake 1-2 a day
A tip for feeding Nori on a clip. I fold it up, place it in the clip. And with a pair of scissors I cut little notches in the Norii. This keeps the fish from ripping off big chunks that just float around.
Hikari Spirulina Mysis once a day on even days and half of the same cube a day on odd days.
That clip of the harem tank was stunning. Can we get a update video on that tank again!!?
Always nice video's... fire the sound engineer
Can I just drop a frozen cube or should I dethaw it?
What are those cats eating?!
what is that beautiful yellow and white polka dotted fish that takes a poop?
Pellets daily, chilly 3 times a week, plan to raise pods
i have 1 designer clown,
i do a quality pellet, mysis, brine, flake, and live baby brine
the seahorses want absolutely nothing but baby brine & tisbe pods / same for my mandarin dragonet
I FEED NOTHING to the corals & theyre all taking over the tanks
That shrimp looked good. Lol I need to get breakfast.
nori and rods for the win!
LRS foods
Best food around. My Leopard Wrasse eats it like a champ
Yea raw food❤💕
WhT should i feed my clownfish?
Can Clownfish eat tropical flakes fish food
My yellow tang loves flakes more than anything.
my fish are big and need feeding more than once a day. Feed them 3 times a day and it never seems to be enough. I have 6 Tangs, emperor angle fish and some misc. smaller fish. Still everyone seems to be starving. Is that normal??
Fish almost always look hungry. You'll want to check out their stomachs to make sure they're not sunken in. If they are indeed starving, then feeding more is your only option to keep them healthy.
Dogs arent canivores. Cats are obligate canivores.
4:20 what type of fish is that ? it is a scorpion fish correct
What makes the sustainable food sustainable?
christ i came here to see how often i should feed my Clown and im getting a damn semester of human biology. like ok
For clownfish, one feeding a day is sufficient 🙂
What type of Anthias is that at 7:07?
Great information.
What kind of fish was that at 4:15
I am going through some tough things at home I was wondering if u can help me get a coral reef tank of my dreams. Btw I love your videos and ur so helpful
+BulkReefSupplyCom given the chance to have a sump should I use one
+BulkReefSupplyCom what r so easy corals and fish to have
+BulkReefSupplyCom ok thanks what kind of tank should I start with like a 40g breeder
+BulkReefSupplyCom I am going to get the Red Sea max c 130. Also I am getting all of my thing from your website keep up the work your the beat
+BulkReefSupplyCom yep anytime your the best in the business
Hikari pelet and seaweed 1 a day
What type of fish was fed at 4:18
I'm a freshwater guy just getting my feet wet in reefing, so forgive me if this is a ridiculous question. If you were running a chaeto refugium in your sump and harvested extra growth, would any herbivores take interest in that?
It would depend on the type of algae you're growing. Most herbivorous fish don't like chaeto, but if you're growing something like Ulva, they'll be all over it.
@@BRStv Thanks! Off to Google I go...
Man, what don't I feed? Aminos 3-4x per week (Brightwell's, AcroPower, Reef Roids, and KZ rotated) Fish food: pellets and flakes mostly daily, 1x per month frozen food.
For the Tangs, clip with different types of freeze dried seaweed.
If I had more fish, I would do Hikari or Rods food for prepared frozen foods.
When I feed flake food( Ocean Nutrition green and red I use tweezers to submerge the flakes so they dont float around- I find this way most effective for its consumption and reduction of potential leftovers.
Heavy in, heavy out.
Demand: Mixed reef 6 medium corals, LPS, SPS, and softies, 480 days old. 7 Fish: 4.5" powder blue tang, 4.5" bluechin trigger, 4" dragon goby, 3"coral beauty angel, 2 mocha clowns and a 2.5" Lubbock's fairy wrasse. Food: I feed the tank 1 cube of frozen food per day. Target feed the corals the juice from the melt and some of the solids. The fish get the blowby and whatever is left at the end. Nori is 1/2 sheet 2-3 times per week. Fuge farms copepods and amphipods, snails and starfish such that the sand is alive in the DT at night. The fish get plenty of live food this way.Results: Growth seems sluggish for the fish. Corals are growing inches per month! Other Thoughts & Changes: LFS said to never feed brine to a marine tank last night. I'm going to work in more carnivore and veggie options. Love the auto defroster for the nights I'm not target feeding corals. Buy this! I have an auto feeder I run on vacation and the three days before I leave for operational validation. You are absolutely right about watching the dosage on the pellets! Made my own feeding ring, 1 foot diameter, works beautifully. With a 25 gallon fuge containing 20# of live rock and a giant mass of chaeto following socks and a skimmer, ending with a fluvol 405 full of rox.8 carbon, I never have water quality issues, zeroes all around, every time. BRS Rocks!: I can't say enough how helpful your videos and site are. This is my first salt tank and BRS has saved me time and countless dollars! Please let me know how I might promote you more!
You’ve mentioned the man-made rock a lot but never what actually gives it its “fake” coralline color, guessing it is indeed reef safe but I’m curious what it is, paint?
Whats he using to clean the sand?
Nice video fist of URS that I see
Rods food and mysis shrimp
It's weird that some people care about fish diet more than their own diet
You're not wrong 😂
Blend: Frozen Mysis, LRS Reef Frenzy, Blood Worms & Squid. Also clip Romaine lettuce and various types of Sea Veggies.
What are your thoughts on DIY frozen fish food? I have been feeding mine a homemade mixture of fresh shrimp, scallop, clam and mussels that I get from my local fish monger. I cut it up into chunks and then soak it 24 hours in Kent Marine Zoe. I then pulse it in a food processor to get it to the right size portions, freeze it in a ziplock bag lying flat and then cut into cubes. My fish go crazy over it and they are thriving. Every other day I supplement with frozen Mysis. Any concerns with using fresh seafood? It saves a ton of money from buying the prepared cubes every few weeks.
Thanks BRS. One more thing. After the part about responsible fish keeping. I beg you to include something in the next few episodes about the latest Fish related Disney movie, and how every mom n dad should NOT GO BUY A BLUE HIPPO TANG and a ten gallon tank from the bulk store with out doing some serious research. Many many fish died from lack of informed purchases after the first "Clown Fish" movie and BLUE hippo's are far less hardy. Our local club has been struggling with how to get this message out effectively for the health of the hobby as a whole. Thanks great work as always.
jim28fl yup my life is concerned
What's a good rule of thumb for how many frozen mysis cubes to feed a day. For the sake of this discussion let's assume a moderately stocked tank. What size tank do you think one cube a day is good for. Clearly a cube a day for a 10g tank is way to much and 1 cube a day for a 300g tank is way to little. What tank size approximately needs 1 cube a day. Just looking for a good rule of thumb.
What's the story with the music that you start all your videos with?
+BulkReefSupplyCom But who did it?
+BulkReefSupplyCom I think a cool BRS Investigates could maybe revolve around whether the Roller Mat is more effective then a skimmer in a controlled setup. Might be worth looking into.
PE mysis and NLS pellets. Twice a day.
Good combination
How many fish could I put in a 40 gallon tank
BulkReefSupplyCom thx
Hi, I have some frozen brine shrimp and also some pellets. How much and how often should I feed two small tank bred clownfish in a 300 litre tank? Should I alternate between the two types of foods every other day?
hi Ryan , im going to buy a red sea max s-500 led white complete system, but Im not sure if the hydraHD led lighting will be enough for more demanding corals. Somebody knows what T5 tubes could I use that fits on the light fixture
LRS is my fav food
I've switched between freshwater species to reef and now back to freshwater... My choice and what I see brings out the fishes or aquarium species colour is without a dobut, frozen foods. Specifically Sally's/San Fransisco Bay Brand brine with spirlina and bloodworms.
I've also given my fish the frozen "community" variety that helps make sure that the fish get a well balanced diet. Sadly, I have not been able to get ahold of the "Freshwater Frenzy" (Community) variety as our LPS refuses to carry it. :( :( So instead, I am stuck with giving them the OMEGA ONE brand flakes every other day.
I enjoy growing phyto and rotifers, plus have a large dedicated pod fuge. Other than that, I live near the sea, so I buy a variety of fresh stuff from a local fishmonger, chop it up and freeze it in icecube trays.
LRS Reef Frenzy
I am new to the hobby and absolutely LOVE this series! It has been so helpful to me making decisions about my tank. The tank is now 6 months and about two months ago I started to facing a huge nitrate and phosphate problem. I am sure as everyone has done before me, I overfed. I started researching and moved to fresh Red Gracilaria. First, for my two tangs and foxface, but also to help control my nitrate and phosphate problem. Not only do my fish love to eat it, but it also helps to reduce the excess nutrients in the tank. For the other fish I use frozen brine daily and every other day I mix Oysterfeast and Mysis. I will switch up twice weekly between adding the Hikari Frozen Clam or the Spirulina as well. My tank's water is much bteer and everyone seems a lot happier. I will also use Seaweed Extreme, but I never thought to soften it in water before addiung to the tank. If any one has any or advise I welcome it!
Several kinds, liquid phydo and egg, mysis, reef chili, and frozen algae. I add them together and then feed it after it is mixed.
Please slow down just a little in speaking..youre talking too fast, saying this kindly .
Sorry about that. Hopefully the videos we are producing now are far easier to follow than these ones from years back.
@@BRStv thank you, love your informative videos!
You brought up a point (actually several of them) in your recent videos. While you are using Zeovit in this system, would you still say that it is a nutrient rich environment, with low nitrates and phosphates?
I feed mine 3 days a week a mixture of a pinch of flakes, frozen brine shrimp and a few pellets. I'm feeding fish, 2 annenames, 2 shrimps, a flower pot coral and a snail and 10 hermit crabs and brittle star fish
I also find that different fish like different frequencies and amounts. for example, tangs, which spend a lot of time grazing, prefer a constant stream of food or high frequency small feedings. lionfish or eels on the other hand are fine eating every two to three days, so long as you fees big chunks at a time.
I take a small chunk of frozen mysis, a small chunk of frozen krill, and crush up a pinch of flakes mix it all together in a cup of tank water and dump it in. Once a day.
excellent video on feedings and the type of food each individual fish eats. since I have tangs, wrasses and angels i feed a different variety at each feeding to support each fish groups needs.
It's cool to see that you actually try to make the food fit the fish's natural diet. Do you feed your own cats raw? I feed mine prey model raw and it's fur is much more shiny and her stool is smaller and less smelly, appart from all the health benefits it will have in the long run.
hi Ryan , im going to buy a red sea max s-500 led white complete system, but Im not sure if the hydraHD led lighting will be enough for more demanding corals. Somebody knows what T5 tubes could I use that fits on the light fixture
The one you recomend me most xD
+BulkReefSupplyCom which one do you think suits for a reef tank needs and can be put in with my aquarium size?
+BulkReefSupplyCom thanks!!
i feed my tank every other day and i vary it one day they will get omega one carnivore diet which is mysis,brine shrimp and bloodworms then next time they got a small pinch of omega ones marineflakes and a few omega one reef pellets
What kind of wrasse was that at 8:45? Can I have one in a 20 nano?
BulkReefSupplyCom is there any wrasse I can house in a 20 nano?