- If you do not use a feeding or lettuce clip, secure leafy foods down by placing part of it under a rock to keep it on the bottom, with the majority of the food sticking out waving in the current.
- When using lettuces and other vegetables, slightly freeze and then thaw them out before feeding. This breaks down the hard fibrous structure of the food allowing the fish to more easily digest it. This also softens the food for the fish to bite pieces off much easier. Don't boil these foods as it will remove beneficial nutrients from them.
- Feeding broccoli and carrots can provide valuable Vitamin A, helpful in restoring fish suffering from HLLE (Head and Lateral Line Erosion).
- Soak lettuce and other foods in a vitamin supplement, such as Selcon, before feeding. This will help to give the fish extra vitamins they may be lacking from normal tank fed foods.
- For fish that are coral and invert pickers, smear, stick or press food down into rocks, cracks or crevices in the tank. These fish are naturally looking for food in these areas. One good way to do this is to use chunks or a pasty type food mix. It is easy to make your own fish food mix. Only put in as much food as the fish will consume, using a very small amount at first until the fish figures out this is a food source. For feeding Parrotfish and other troublesome pickers and grazers, such as Moorish Idols and some Butterflies and Angels, try a plaster food mix.
- Plastic long handled tongs or some type of feeding tool works great for feeding fish that bite or sting, such as Eels, Lionfishes, Groupers, etc. At first a fish may be startled by the tongs and withdraw when you wave the food in front of it, but soon gets used to seeing the tongs and associates it with feeding time. For stationary food eating anemones and corals, these feeding tools allow you to bring the food directly to them as well, without having to get all wet!
- For predatory animals, the feeding of live foods stimulates their natural hunting instincts.
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