Foods, Feeding & Nutritional Issues
Do you know what feeding categories your fishes and invertebrates fall into, or what their primary food preferences are? Learn about these things and other issues related to the feeding and nutritional needs of marine livestock, because it is vital to their health and well being that you provide each individual species with the proper diet they require.
Zooplankton Profile
Zooplankton Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Zooplankton Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
TetraMarine Granules Profile
TetraMarine Granules Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
TetraMarine Granules Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Tetra Marine Flakes Profile
Tetra Marine Flakes Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Tetra Marine Flakes Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
TetraMarineColor Fish Food Profile
TetraMarineColor Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
TetraMarineColor Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Spectrum H2O Stable Wafers Profile
Spectrum H2O Stable Wafers Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Spectrum H2O Stable Wafers Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Prime Reef Flakes Fish Food
Prime Reef Flakes Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Prime Reef Flakes Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Aqua Yums Squid Flat Pack Profile
Aqua Yums Squid Flat Pack fish food profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Aqua Yums Squid Flat Pack fish food profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Bio-Blend Marine Herbivore Diet Profile
Bio-Blend Marine Herbivore Diet Profile including Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Bio-Blend Marine Herbivore Diet Profile including Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Bio-Blend Marine Carnivore Diet Profile
Bio-Blend Marine Carnivore Diet Profile
Bio-Blend Marine Carnivore Diet Profile
Bio-Blend Marine Staple Foods
Bio-Blend Marine Staple Foods profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Bio-Blend Marine Staple Foods profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula One Flake Food Profile
Formula One Flake Food includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Formula One Flake Food includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Formula One Frozen Food Profile
Formula One Frozen Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Formula One Frozen Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Formula One Medium Pellets Profile
Formula One Medium Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Formula One Medium Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Formula One Small Pellets
Formula One Small Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula One Small Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Flakes
Formula Two Flakes Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Flakes Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Frozen Food Profile
Formula Two Frozen Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Frozen Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Medium Pellets Profile
Formula Two Medium Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Medium Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Small Pellets Profile
Formula Two Small Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Formula Two Small Pellets Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Mega Marine
Mega Marine Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Mega Marine Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
O.S.I. Marine Flake Food Profile
O.S.I. Marine Flake Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
O.S.I. Marine Flake Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Platinum Reef Carnivore Fish Food Profile
Platinum Reef Carnivore Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Platinum Reef Carnivore Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions
Platinum Reef Herbivore Fish Food Profile
Platinum Reef Herbivore Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Platinum Reef Herbivore Fish Food Profile includes Manufacturer/Brand Name, Ingredients, Ad Quotes, Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Angel & Butterfly Diet Fish Food Profile
Angel & Butterfly Diet profile - Including Brand Name/Manufacturer, Ingredients, Claims and Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Angel & Butterfly Diet profile - Including Brand Name/Manufacturer, Ingredients, Claims and Recommended Feeding Instructions.
Popular Liquid Vitamins for Aquarium Fishes and Inverts
The lack of essential vitamins and minerals in the diets of freshwater and saltwater fishes and invertebrates can lead to health problems, a common one in fish being head and lateral line erosion disease. An easy way to ensure your aquarium inhabitants get what they require in their diets is to use concentrated liquid vitamins that are high in omega-3 fatty acids and marine lipids, spirulina and kelp, and other natural nutrients. Here is a list of popular liquid vitamins that are used.
The lack of essential vitamins and minerals in the diets of freshwater and saltwater fishes and invertebrates can lead to health problems, a common one in fish being head and lateral line erosion disease. An easy way to ensure your aquarium inhabitants get what they require in their diets is to use concentrated liquid vitamins that are high in omega-3 fatty acids and marine lipids, spirulina and kelp, and other natural nutrients. Here is a list of popular liquid vitamins that are used.
Fish and Invertebrate Foods and Feeding
Fish and Invertebrate Foods and Feeding - What foods are best for your fish and invertebrates as well as how to feed them.
Fish and Invertebrate Foods and Feeding - What foods are best for your fish and invertebrates as well as how to feed them.
4 Basic Feeding Categories of Fishes & Inverts
The first step in solving a problem with a fish, coral or other invertebrate that is NOT eating is to understand what it eats. Debbie and Stan outline the 4 basic feeding categories of fishes and invertebrates - carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, and suspension or filter feeders - then provides tips on feeding the animal once you have determined its feeding category.
The first step in solving a problem with a fish, coral or other invertebrate that is NOT eating is to understand what it eats. Debbie and Stan outline the 4 basic feeding categories of fishes and invertebrates - carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, and suspension or filter feeders - then provides tips on feeding the animal once you have determined its feeding category.
11 Primary Food Groups of Marine Fishes
The earth's oceans are filled with a diverse variety of fishes that feed on a wide range of marine plant and animal life. For this reason it is important to know what a particular fish type or species primarily eats in nature, so that when it is kept in an aquarium you can provide it with... read more
The earth's oceans are filled with a diverse variety of fishes that feed on a wide range of marine plant and animal life. For this reason it is important to know what a particular fish type or species primarily eats in nature, so that when it is kept in an aquarium you can provide it with... read more
FAQ: How Often Should I Feed My Fish?
How often should your fish be fed, anyway? Once per day? Twice? Every two or three days? Feed too often and a lot of the food wil just end up on the bottom, creating even more nitrates. Not often enough, the health of your fish will suffer.
How often should your fish be fed, anyway? Once per day? Twice? Every two or three days? Feed too often and a lot of the food wil just end up on the bottom, creating even more nitrates. Not often enough, the health of your fish will suffer.
Top 7 Foods of Choice
Saltwater aquarists utilize a wide variety of foods to provide the proper nutrition for the personal mix of fishes and invertebrates they have in their tanks. While some aquarists find that basic flake or pellet foods are adequate, others prefer... read more
Saltwater aquarists utilize a wide variety of foods to provide the proper nutrition for the personal mix of fishes and invertebrates they have in their tanks. While some aquarists find that basic flake or pellet foods are adequate, others prefer... read more
Marine Fish Food Comparison
Do you have any idea what is in the food you are feeding your fish? Protein, fat, ash, moisture, ingredients? Does it contain color enhancers? It's bad enough trying to read the tiny printing on the fish food containers. This easy-to-read chart compares the essentials, making it easier for you to choose the right food for your tank critters.
Do you have any idea what is in the food you are feeding your fish? Protein, fat, ash, moisture, ingredients? Does it contain color enhancers? It's bad enough trying to read the tiny printing on the fish food containers. This easy-to-read chart compares the essentials, making it easier for you to choose the right food for your tank critters.
Aggressive Food Competition Behavior of Fish
The third part in your About Guides series on fish compatibility, this article discusses aggression that can stem from food competition, which outlines the three basic fish feeding categories, carnivores, herbivores and ominvores, to better understand why fish may act as they do towards one another.
The third part in your About Guides series on fish compatibility, this article discusses aggression that can stem from food competition, which outlines the three basic fish feeding categories, carnivores, herbivores and ominvores, to better understand why fish may act as they do towards one another.
Live Foods to Feed Your Fishes
Your Guides Debbie and Stan discussion the various types of live foods one can choose to feed to carnivorous fishes, such as brine shrimp, feeder fishes and crustaceans, as well as plants or algae to feed herbivores and omnivores.
Your Guides Debbie and Stan discussion the various types of live foods one can choose to feed to carnivorous fishes, such as brine shrimp, feeder fishes and crustaceans, as well as plants or algae to feed herbivores and omnivores.
How To Tips for Feeding Fish & Inverts
Learn how to feed saltwater aquarium fish and other livestock with greater ease and success using these helpful feeding tips from your Guides Debbie and Stan Guides.
Learn how to feed saltwater aquarium fish and other livestock with greater ease and success using these helpful feeding tips from your Guides Debbie and Stan Guides.
What is Nori, and How is it Used?
From your About Guides Articles Archive, Debbie and Stan explain what nori is, where to buy it, and how to use, store and feed your saltwater fish and other algae eaters with it.
From your About Guides Articles Archive, Debbie and Stan explain what nori is, where to buy it, and how to use, store and feed your saltwater fish and other algae eaters with it.
Growing Rotifers, Artemia & Green Water
From Tom Miller's EZ Reef site, an article by Jake Levi on how to culture rotifers and other species to feed marine fry, larvae, and corals.
From Tom Miller's EZ Reef site, an article by Jake Levi on how to culture rotifers and other species to feed marine fry, larvae, and corals.
Live Food
Contributed by Oleg Kiselev and Steve Bartling for the FINS Fish FAQ's, a detailed article covering various live foods that you can use and culture yourself for feeding your marine animals.
Contributed by Oleg Kiselev and Steve Bartling for the FINS Fish FAQ's, a detailed article covering various live foods that you can use and culture yourself for feeding your marine animals.
Malnutrition - Sick Hippo Tang
From the Thiel Marine Infobase, a brief description with treatment recommendations for a sick Hippo Tang that has a degenerative disease caused from the lack of proper nutrition. Two images for viewing included.
From the Thiel Marine Infobase, a brief description with treatment recommendations for a sick Hippo Tang that has a degenerative disease caused from the lack of proper nutrition. Two images for viewing included.
Nutrition - Foods & Feeding Articles/FAQs
From WetWebMedia, here is a hugh collection of articles and FAQs from Robert Fenner that addresses all kinds of information pertaining to nutritional topics about foods and feeding for marine aquarists.
From WetWebMedia, here is a hugh collection of articles and FAQs from Robert Fenner that addresses all kinds of information pertaining to nutritional topics about foods and feeding for marine aquarists.
Nutritional Requirements of Reef Systems
From J. Charles Delbeek publications, an article that doesn't so much tell you what to feed organisms, but more outlines the various feeding modes that one will encounter to help you decide how best to deal with them.
From J. Charles Delbeek publications, an article that doesn't so much tell you what to feed organisms, but more outlines the various feeding modes that one will encounter to help you decide how best to deal with them.
Production & Application of Rotifers
From the NetPets Saltwater Library, Liu Fengqi gives information about various types of rotifers, their principles, and how to produce them as an essential food source.
From the NetPets Saltwater Library, Liu Fengqi gives information about various types of rotifers, their principles, and how to produce them as an essential food source.
San Francisco Bay Brand SW Foods
Find out what foods San Francisco Bay Brand makes for saltwater fishes and which ones are specifically recommended for each species listed.
Find out what foods San Francisco Bay Brand makes for saltwater fishes and which ones are specifically recommended for each species listed.
Zebrasoma Tangs
By Albert Thiel from the Thiel Infobase Saltwater Library II, a very detailed outline about this species for care and feeding.
By Albert Thiel from the Thiel Infobase Saltwater Library II, a very detailed outline about this species for care and feeding.