Fish food record?

This must be a record. My basement tank (120g) is covered in fish-food
packages (in various states of depletion). I have a lot of different
mouths to feed in this tank, but there were so many packages, that I
thought I'd write them down as further evidence of my addiction to this
hobby (in case more compelling evidence was even ever needed ;o).

1) Goldfish & Koi sticks (which no one likes, but it was cheap)
2) staple flake food (2 types)
3) Nutrafin max complete pellet food (mini floating)
4) Hikari sinking carnivore pellets
5) Hikari cichlid staple medium
6) Hikari cichlid complete
7) Hikari cichlid gold mini
8) a lead weight for zucchini
9) and in the freezer (still for this one tank) is brine shrimp (Sally's
I think, sometimes Hikari Bio-Pure). I have frozen daphnia (which no one
eats, and I'm out of bloodworms).

So that's 9 foods for one tank (10 or 11 if I count the bloodworms or
earthworms I occasionally throw in there ;~). Is this some kind of
record?

In case you are wondering why so many foods:
Frontosa 4) 5) 9) & worms
C.Moori 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 9)
Leleupis 2) 3) 6) 7) 9)
Bristlenose 8)
Pictus everything
Platys 2) 3) 9)
...and I keep 2) and 3) on a twice daily automatic feeder *whew*.

NetMax

NetMax wrote:
So that's 9 foods for one tank (10 or 11 if I count the bloodworms or
earthworms I occasionally throw in there ;~). Is this some kind of
record?

Let's see, for my 110 g I have:
Tetra pro flakes
New life spectrum pellets
Hikari bottom-feeder pellets
Hikari algae wafers
Tetra tropical tablets
crab bites
Hikari Daphnia (dry)
Hikari bloodworms (dry)
3 kinds of Bioblend foods (these are new and so far fish don't like them)
frozen bloodworms
frozen brine shrimp
frozen white mosquito larvae
frozen daphnia
frozen freshwater omnivore blend

Did I mention I like to feed a variety of things? I figure no food is 100%
complete in all the trace elements and such, so I just mix all kinds of things.


--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in message
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NetMax wrote:
So that's 9 foods for one tank (10 or 11 if I count the bloodworms or
earthworms I occasionally throw in there ;~). Is this some kind of
record?

Let's see, for my 110 g I have:
Tetra pro flakes
New life spectrum pellets
Hikari bottom-feeder pellets
Hikari algae wafers
Tetra tropical tablets
crab bites
Hikari Daphnia (dry)
Hikari bloodworms (dry)
3 kinds of Bioblend foods (these are new and so far fish don't like
them)
frozen bloodworms
frozen brine shrimp
frozen white mosquito larvae
frozen daphnia
frozen freshwater omnivore blend

Did I mention I like to feed a variety of things? I figure no food
is 100%
complete in all the trace elements and such, so I just mix all kinds of
things.

After reading this, I went out and bought more food, Spirulina sticks
from Nutrafin. You are still way ahead of me though, but that's alright,
you can hold the record ;~).

NetMax

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

geesh... after reading all these lists i'm left feeling woefully
inadequate... two foods for all 4 of my tanks and one goldfish bowl.

i gotta talk to the wife about this, i'm behind the times here.

tedd.


"Jim Brown" wrote in message
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NetMax wrote in message
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This must be a record. My basement tank (120g) is covered in fish-food
packages (in various states of depletion). I have a lot of different
mouths to feed in this tank, but there were so many packages, that I
thought I'd write them down as further evidence of my addiction to this
hobby (in case more compelling evidence was even ever needed ;o).

1) Goldfish & Koi sticks (which no one likes, but it was cheap)
2) staple flake food (2 types)
3) Nutrafin max complete pellet food (mini floating)
4) Hikari sinking carnivore pellets
5) Hikari cichlid staple medium
6) Hikari cichlid complete
7) Hikari cichlid gold mini
8) a lead weight for zucchini
9) and in the freezer (still for this one tank) is brine shrimp (Sally's
I think, sometimes Hikari Bio-Pure). I have frozen daphnia (which no
one
eats, and I'm out of bloodworms).

So that's 9 foods for one tank (10 or 11 if I count the bloodworms or
earthworms I occasionally throw in there ;~). Is this some kind of
record?

In case you are wondering why so many foods:
Frontosa 4) 5) 9) & worms
C.Moori 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 9)
Leleupis 2) 3) 6) 7) 9)
Bristlenose 8)
Pictus everything
Platys 2) 3) 9)
..and I keep 2) and 3) on a twice daily automatic feeder *whew*.

NetMax



For one tank, even with bigger Rift Lake cichlids, I will bow to your
record.
Around here, there are more tanks, smaller than yours. Top of my head:
3 flakes (shrimp, earthworm, mixture)
5 pellets (2 catfish, 2 cichlid, 1 community)
3 granules-special private label guppy food
2 kinds of squash
3 frozen foods (brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, bloodworm)
4 home made foods (beefheart, liver, clam, earthworm)
2 types of algae wafers
2 freeze dried (tubifex, brine shrimp)
raw shrimp, clams, octopus, squid
4 different live worm cultures
new hatched baby brine shrimp
cull guppies for the pike cichlids and the Jack Dempsey's

At the best, I could cut back to just two foods (Baby brine shrimp, frozen
bloodworms) if I converted the fishroom to a Betta hatchery and sold off
everything else.
But that's not gonna happen ;-)

Jim

So do you donate to the "Freedom from Hunger Campaign"

NetMax wrote in message
After reading this, I went out and bought more food, Spirulina sticks
from Nutrafin. You are still way ahead of me though, but that's alright,
you can hold the record ;~).

NetMax

"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in message
So that's 9 foods for one tank (10 or 11 if I count the bloodworms or
earthworms I occasionally throw in there ;~). Is this some kind of
record?

Let's see, for my 110 g I have:
Tetra pro flakes
New life spectrum pellets
Hikari bottom-feeder pellets
Hikari algae wafers
Tetra tropical tablets
crab bites
Hikari Daphnia (dry)
Hikari bloodworms (dry)
3 kinds of Bioblend foods (these are new and so far fish don't like
them)
frozen bloodworms
frozen brine shrimp
frozen white mosquito larvae
frozen daphnia
frozen freshwater omnivore blend

Did I mention I like to feed a variety of things? I figure no food
is 100%
complete in all the trace elements and such, so I just mix all kinds of
things.


--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

The subject is variety, not quantity. I probably feed my fish less in
total than the average hobbyist.

NetMax

"bassett" wrote in message
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So do you donate to the "Freedom from Hunger Campaign"

NetMax wrote in message
After reading this, I went out and bought more food, Spirulina sticks
from Nutrafin. You are still way ahead of me though, but that's
alright,
you can hold the record ;~).

NetMax

"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in message
So that's 9 foods for one tank (10 or 11 if I count the bloodworms
or
earthworms I occasionally throw in there ;~). Is this some kind
of
record?

Let's see, for my 110 g I have:
Tetra pro flakes
New life spectrum pellets
Hikari bottom-feeder pellets
Hikari algae wafers
Tetra tropical tablets
crab bites
Hikari Daphnia (dry)
Hikari bloodworms (dry)
3 kinds of Bioblend foods (these are new and so far fish don't like
them)
frozen bloodworms
frozen brine shrimp
frozen white mosquito larvae
frozen daphnia
frozen freshwater omnivore blend

Did I mention I like to feed a variety of things? I figure no
food
is 100%
complete in all the trace elements and such, so I just mix all
kinds of
things.


--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

Wellman wrote in message
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I'm nowhere near a record, but this is the food I have:

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I also have bbs when I have fry, and powdered fry food. And I'm thinking
of
buying some frozen food, probably bloodworms. I'd also like to have a
vinegar eel colony for my fry but I haven't been able to find out
where/how
to get the starter colony.

Martin


Vinegar eels are a RPITA to harvest. Opt for microworms instead.

Jim