jthread wrote:
My question is. How would you guys feed these tanks? I'm running out of the
food that we started with.
The rabbitfish in tank 2 is a herbivore. I would feed it chopped kelp, but many
people buy varieties of seaweed at oriental grocery stores. Most of the other
fish will do well on a diet of mysis shrimp. Brine shrimp is also ok, but is not
as nutritious. The clownfish eat a mix of foods, so mysis shrimp and kelp should
do very well for them. Formula B is a frozen food that will also probably do
well in this tank. I would buy a small quantity first and see how they like it.
In any case, there is no single food that will feed everybody in there.
There are a few fish in tank 1 that I don't recognize right off the bat, but I
do see a fair size trigger fish in there. That one is a carnivore and will love
a diet of mixed shellfish. They also love it when the shellfish are alive, so
don't add invertebrates to this tank as long as the trigger is there. If you can
buy seafood locally, you can chop up some scallops, clams, and shrimp, and the
trigger will love you for it. The other guys may do well on mysis, but it might
be wise to prowl around on Marine Depot (
http://www.marinedepotlive.com). Just
click on the different varieties of fish and try to find out what you have. Once
you find their web page for your fish, the page will tell you what they eat.
George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.