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Originally Posted by Tim
what should i feed them?
what do you feed your clowns?
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Hi Tim,
feeding 3 times a day is enough, if they get the right nutrition.
I wrote the last time about the lack of vitamin c. Thatīs actually an old story.
I did lots of research and now I know, that vitamin c is much more important, than I thought.
Try this, thatīs what my broodstock and also the offspring gets.
500 gr. seafood mix, which contains mussels, squid, prawns, crab sticks,
fish pieces. If there is to much squid in, I take a bit out and add
fish and/or mussels. Squid is taff stuff for the blender and for small
juveniles difficult to eat.
1 yellow of the egg, for protein
15 salmon oil capsules, without the capsules for sure.
1 soaked Nori leave, sushi seaweed
Multivitamin unflavoured , i used by mistake pineapple flavour, food was smelling nice and the fish eats it too. But for picky eaters, unflavoured would be better.
For the amount of multivitamin you have to make sure that you add 250mg vitamin c per kg feed! 300mg/kg would be even better.
All this in the blender. Mix it very fine for very small and not so fine for bigger fish.
Dilute 20 gr. gelatine in warm/hot water and put in the blender as well. Blend it for a few seconds, poor a third in a freezer bag. Under the freezer bag put a cardboard.
On top of the full freezer bag put another cardboard to make a slab. Leave the cardboard on top, fill the next freezer bag, on top cardboard and so on.
Looks like a burger. After it is frozen, you brake the piece you need for the day, use what you need right now and the rest put in a tupperware and in the fridge.
I cut 2 x 2 cm pieces and throw them in the juvenile tank. The food is floating and they can eat whenever they want.
For the broodstock, I cut mouth size pieces and feed them.
Actually you can add in this food, what the fish really needs. More algae for surgeons, etc.
It can be, that they are not going mad for this food immediately, but after a while they should eat it like hell. And that food is much cheaper than mysis, etc. Here in south africa, you get two slabs mysis for around 8 USD. For 8 USD I can make a whole kilo food and the nutrition value is much, much better. That means, more healthy broodstock, eggs, larvae, etc. and bigger cluster eggs.
To give you an idea, how bad our food really is.
Mussels, fish and shrimps/prawns contain only 20mg of vitamin c, squid contains 48 mg vitamin c. So that is only 10 % of whatīs required.
Let me know, how it works.
Marcel
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