Food soak and enhancers?

by **dream2reef** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:07 am

Anyone start using these things and see a noticable difference? Like it hate it idk? Jus wondering before I buy and try a bunch. Anything to make my fish be even more colorful still.

by **yasherkoach** » Sun May 08, 2011 9:06 am

stay away from ALL chemicals as much as possible

by **Alasse** » Sun May 08, 2011 10:56 am

The garlic soak can be excellent for fish that maybe off their food. No harm in it at all.

by **dream2reef** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:15 am

I love garlic I'll just mince some up and boil in in some of their water and strain out the pulp! And some steak! Fillet Mignon. jk ill oogle it

by **yasherkoach** » Mon May 09, 2011 7:56 am

natural garlic soak is okay - but when dream2reef said enhancers, I was thinking in terms of what comes out of a bottle for fish stores do sell food enhancers

but if you take natural garlic from the grocery and create a soak, that's cool

I am forever feeding the fish chicken, turkey, oysters, peas, raw ground beef - of course in extremely small portions in extremely minced up ways, so it's cool if you feed the fish with organic or grocery store food, just be careful not to overdue it

by **Alasse** » Mon May 09, 2011 1:08 pm

Seeing as the fish food i use is processed (pellets/flakes/etc) with all sorts of additives, i cant honestly see where additives designed for use in aquariums would be overly harmful

by **yasherkoach** » Mon May 09, 2011 10:41 pm

well you know me Alasse - as natural as possible (((smiles)))

if I could eliminate flake fish food I would.....actually I am working on it, but I just do not like to overwhelm the good bacteria in the tank with too much human food plus most human food can be very fatty...but I am working on it, that is, to see what works best without upsetting the chemical balance

by **Alasse** » Tue May 10, 2011 5:27 am

I am not a scientist. I will continue to feed my fish proper balanced fish food, rather than messing with my own concoctions which could ultimately do my fish harm through my ignorance.

This is what happens to many owners who feed their dogs the RAW diet, they do it incorrectly and their dog ends up worse off with deficiencies popping up all over

Human food is by no means chemical free, nor is it designed for fish *L* Definately not something i would be playing with.

But good luck Yasher

by **yasherkoach** » Tue May 10, 2011 8:59 pm

thanks...I'll keep you up to date on the food project (((smiles)))

by the way, last night they had cooked beef liver - they loved it

by **Alasse** » Tue May 10, 2011 9:43 pm

I'll look forward to the updates for sure Yasher :)

Food soak and enhancers?

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