Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Hey Terry, what type of greenery were you feeding that hoard of tangs in your tank?


thanks,
Jeremy

Kale lettuce... white stalk, dark green leaves.

Thanks man,

Could not remember.

Jeremy

Shag is correct.....Rich from Progressive turned me onto this....can pick up from Super Walmart for .94 a bunch. They love it.

Do you freeze it first? I used to use Rhomaine lettuce but I froze it first to help break down the cellular structure to make it easier to digest. I read to do that somewhere but can't seem to remember where.

I just place it between two magnets to hold in place while they eat....It last longer that way....sometimes will last a day or two...and I have a lot of tangs.

Also like to feed ours parched brocoli and carrot slivers.. high in vitamin a to help prevent hole-in-head and lateral line disease.

The only greens I feed is Nori. It's extremely cheap at the Asian market and my clowns, blennys, fox face, tangs, and snails love it... anyone else use it?

I also use it in my 'blender chow' I mix up. The 'blender chow' has pink/tiger shrimp, mysis shrimp, nori, oysters, left-over fish flake, sometimes clams, and saltwater.

Jeff showed me the secrets of homemade "frozen mush" food squares.... my tank loves it!

What do you freeze the stuff in?

ziploc bags...... make sure they're totally flat, and you'll end up with a thin flat brick like brine shrimp packs. I then cut the bags, with the frozen food in it, into squares and pile them into a large container, which goes into the freezer, and feed from that... I'm lazy, so I actually just dump a few aquares directly into the tank, the way my water flow works, it ends up tumbling and tumbling in the middle until it thaws

It goes good with crackers too!!

my kitchen stank for quite a while after I made that stuff...