What do you feed your fish? Do you feed frozen or dry? Do you make your own food or pre-prepped?
For years I did not pay much attention to marine fish nutrition. I thought- they eat, they look happy, end of story. After reading much research studies as well as experimenting with various food mixes myself. Here is a previous post that I was not feeding a diversed food as I do today.
I’m currently settle with home made frozen food mix consist of chopped prawn, chopped salmon, chopped krill, PE mysis shrimp, crushed nori seaweed, calanus, and depends on store availability, chopped scallops, chopped squid, and crabs. I think the key here is diversity. While it is alright to keep fish “alive” feeding just mysis or even brine shrimp, it will be lacking some nutrition while providing too much of others. It is the equivalent of having mashed potatoes and a piece of stake everyday you won’t die from it, but you also won’t feel very energetic from it either.
Here is a quick video showing my fish devour my food mix, and to show how healthy and happy they look!