Quality Frozen Food Vitamin/enrichment Supplement?

[jonnyf84]

Certain fish only feed off frozen or live food as we all know but the little fellas from this group that we keep have slim pickings in terms of food, i can only think of 5 or 6 viable and easily obtainable frozen and live foods and sometimes a fish will be picky enough to only accept one of these, this isn't a good diet and doesn't come close to the natural needs of the fish.

There seems to be loads of nutrients for marines but how about freshwater? Any recommendations?

Thanks.

 

[Tonyb111111]

Certain fish only feed off frozen or live food as we all know but the little fellas from this group that we keep have slim pickings in terms of food, i can only think of 5 or 6 viable and easily obtainable frozen and live foods and sometimes a fish will be picky enough to only accept one of these, this isn't a good diet and doesn't come close to the natural needs of the fish.

There seems to be loads of nutrients for marines but how about freshwater? Any recommendations?

Thanks.

I must admit, I have dosed my tank religiously every week with eSHa Minaroll, which is a vitamin and mineral supplement.

 

[jonnyf84]

do you think it helped? is there any other opinions?

I'm struggling to believe that more people aren't interested in this, i guess its mainly bread and butter on here that accept a wide range of dried foods. What about the discus breeders, you must enrich your food?

maybe i should post on the oddball thread but its slow for responses.

 

[Tolak]

Liquid children's vitamins, the cheap drug store type. This is often used for treating cichlids with HITH, and is a good preventive measure for larger cichlids in general. There's no reason you couldn't mix a bit in with frozen food, no different than soaking cichlid pellets with it.

 

[jonnyf84]

Thanks, I'll have a look into it.

 

[Tonyb111111]

Looking at the ingredients they all appear to be much the same. As to whether it has helped, all I can say is that I have never had any Ich or other nasties in there and all my fish are vibrant and active. This said, this could be down to numerous factors, but I for for one will continue dosing, mainly to supplement the RO I use

 

[Livewire88]

I was worried that my Puffers were not getting the neutrients they needed when they were constantly eating frozen foods.

Therefore I purchased some Seachem Nourish and have been soaking their food in it once or twice a week, to tell the truth I dont know if it makes a difference but hopefuly it does. My feeling is as long as I am doing all I can to try and keep my fish healthy then I am also happy.

Word of warning tho if you do buy Seachem Nourish it smells BAD!!!

 

[Tonyb111111]

Just found this on PFK forum all about supplementary vitamin and minerals
My link

 

[jonnyf84]

Just found this on PFK forum all about supplementary vitamin and minerals
My link

excellent, that's a interesting link. thanks.