Best Food For Fish/liverock/anemones Ect Ect

[garybuk]

hey all just wondering whats the best food for the fish ? is there any food i can get for the live rock ??
How do i go about feeding anemones??? cheers

 

[connorsbala]

It depends what fish you have. Tangs etc require seaweed in their diet, predators such as puffers, lions will require stuff lie frozen fish, live river shrimp, krill, cockle etc.
I feed my clowns:
Live Brine Shrimp (all tanks get it once a week)
Frozen Brine shrimp with spirulina
Frozen Daphnia (every so often)
Frozen Mysis
Lobster Eggs Occasionally
Cyclops
Live River Shrimp (if its small enough)
Frozen Krill
king British Flake with various freeze-dried shrimp
Ocean Nutrition Formual 2 (green one)-will change to reef flakes when i can find some!

For the anemone i give it a frozen fish (silverslides) twice a week...just hold it near its tentacles and it will grab it...great to watch
IMO if you already have an anemone, you really should know what to feed it. If you dont and you want one, wait till your tank is at least 6 months mature.
LR wise, your dont need to feed anything, there are chemicals that can be used to incourage coraline algae growth etc.
I put live plankton in my tank every other day for the corals, feather dusters etc...i directly feed the corals like frogspawn , hammers etc frozne daphnia, myisis, brine shrimp, cyclops and plankton...all mixed in a jar together.

OK?

 

[emmsy]

Yep +1 on all above

Emma

 

[Colin_T]

don't give the anemone too much food. They will take as much food as you can offer them but they don't digest it all and after a few hours they regurgitate it back into the tank. Then it rots in the water and sends the ammonia levels through the roof.
Only feed them a small amount of food each day, about the same amount you feed the clownfish. And vary it between fish, shrimp, mussel and squid.

 

[connorsbala]

don't give the anemone too much food. They will take as much food as you can offer them but they don't digest it all and after a few hours they regurgitate it back into the tank. Then it rots in the water and sends the ammonia levels through the roof.
Only feed them a small amount of food each day, about the same amount you feed the clownfish. And vary it between fish, shrimp, mussel and squid.

Sorry, how do i give the anemone too much food? Its recommended to feed them 2-3 times a week?

 

[Musho3210]

1-3 depending on how much you feed the fish, remember, clowns do share their food with their nems

 

[Colin_T]

Sorry, how do i give the anemone too much food? Its recommended to feed them 2-3 times a week?

don't give them too much food at each feeding. You can feed them every day if you want but only a small amount during each feed.
People often give them a whole whitebait or prawn to eat. They ingest the fish but puke most of it back out a couple of hours later. If you give them a small amount of food each day then they will digest it all and not spit any out.