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12-30-2006, 08:48 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: spartanburg, south carolina
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How bad is flake food?
I have to admit that i use flake food for my fish main feed. How bad is it really? Canister says it's low in phosphate and has all of these nutrients for the fish. I also alternate with cyclopeeze and feed every other day. So far I have no significant nuisence algae, am I OK, or am I headed towards algae land?
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12-30-2006, 08:55 PM
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LOW IN PHOSPHATE, but still present, then again anything you feed will have some, so it comes down to how how you deal with the after math. The Cyclopeeze might be good for roughage but I would certainly add a dash of Selcon to your flake to supplement what may be missing and SKIM big
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12-30-2006, 09:34 PM
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NFMAS
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Saint Augustine
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I am using Cyclopeeze flake food between feedings. Looks and smells like healthy stuff
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12-30-2006, 10:27 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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I use flake food along with a number of other types of food, while I'm on vacation all the fish get is flake.
I think it is fine, but shouldn't be your only food, mix in some Misys, nori, etc too.
IMHO
Whiskey
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12-30-2006, 10:29 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Tulsa, OK
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ditto. I like to vary my kids diet too.
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12-30-2006, 10:54 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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And I feed evey 3 day!
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12-30-2006, 11:05 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: rockford il
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Flake Food
I always have flake food around...At times new fish wont eat the other things I have so I throw in some flakes and "Gulp Gulp Gulp".... I tend to put in SMAAAALLLL amounts at a time so very few flakes ever see the bottom....
Otherwise I generally use mysis, nori, clams, squid & various colors of seaweed (green,purple,red).. Oh and some sponge type food for the Coral Beauty...
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12-30-2006, 11:44 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pismo Beach, CA
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All I have is flake food for my fish....
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12-31-2006, 01:17 AM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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You know what? I just remembered something, my back tank, the one I never touch, the Softie tank, it's fish get nothing but flake food every day  I never walk all the way back there with the frozen stuff. I feel kinda bad for those fish now  I used to feed them pellets too, but stoped that as well when I ran out.
I need more pellets,
Whiskey
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12-31-2006, 04:54 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: new york city
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I mostly feed flake with freezed dried krill but I also feed cyclopeeze a cpl of times a month and nori once a week
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12-31-2006, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: spartanburg, south carolina
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OK, I don't feel so bad now. I was worried that my tank was the only one not getting blender mush. With my DSB, I was worried that I was adding too much waste into the system. I do skim wet and am blowing detritus off the rocks every night.
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