So, over the last 4 years of running a large 340 gallon mixed reef aquarium, I have some pretty large fish now. A Caribbean blue tang that is almost outgrowing the tank (10-12" around and THICK), a 10-12" creole Anthia, and a Dragon Wrasse that's 8" long just to name a few. I also have a medium sized black long nosed tang and mimick - chocolate tang.
My fish eat around 2-3 ounces of frozen food and 1 sheet of nori per day on average.
I'm needing to make my next round of fish food:
I follow the BRS recipe pretty closely:
Costco: Frozen Shrimp (raw and shelled) and Raw mahi ahi tuna. Sometimes they have scallops as well that I mix in.
For the rest, I mix in nori, Max Aminos (Fish aminos), selcon, and sometimes a bottle of bottled fish eggs.
I also add calanous powder and phyto powder (red and green finely ground powders) and mix with what my fish like best, freeze dried mysis. I tried Krill... Yeah, not even the dragon wrasse liked freeze dried krill (I don't blame them, Krill looks creepy).
I add some benefits reef powder to it as well to feed the corals too.
That said, Just wondering, if there's anything else I should add to make my food more nutritious for food. Just want to change things up a little for them to have something different, but not too much either.
What have you done if you make your own fish food?
My fish eat around 2-3 ounces of frozen food and 1 sheet of nori per day on average.
I'm needing to make my next round of fish food:
I follow the BRS recipe pretty closely:
Costco: Frozen Shrimp (raw and shelled) and Raw mahi ahi tuna. Sometimes they have scallops as well that I mix in.
For the rest, I mix in nori, Max Aminos (Fish aminos), selcon, and sometimes a bottle of bottled fish eggs.
I also add calanous powder and phyto powder (red and green finely ground powders) and mix with what my fish like best, freeze dried mysis. I tried Krill... Yeah, not even the dragon wrasse liked freeze dried krill (I don't blame them, Krill looks creepy).
I add some benefits reef powder to it as well to feed the corals too.
That said, Just wondering, if there's anything else I should add to make my food more nutritious for food. Just want to change things up a little for them to have something different, but not too much either.
What have you done if you make your own fish food?