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Fish Foods and Growth?

I had been feeding my fish regular flakes, along with a pinch of sinking style food. Here recently I’ve switched to feeding them brine shrimp and blood worms on a fairly regular basis. I still give them flakes everynow and then. So now the question, I’ve notice some rapid growth in all the fish, even fish that I’ve had for almost a year have gone through a growth spurt in the last few weeks.

All the fish are growing like crazy, and one of my little guys who has had many problems with what I believe to be a swim bladder infection has been very healthy here lately.

So is the brine shrimp and blood worms, just that much better for them? Can I feed it to them all the time rather than even messing with the flakes? Would it be better for me to buy live brine shrimp rather than the frozen stuff I’ve been buying?

Saltwater Automatic Feeders – Frozen Foods?

I have a clown, one firefish, one long nose hawkfish, a green mandarin, and a bicolor goby. all of them love to eat frozen mysid and brine shrimp and not much else. Of course the mandarin goes for the pods. But I am planing on being away for possibly up to two weeks. I don’t really have any options other than to get an automatic feeder for these guys, b/c I am new to the area and I don’t have anyone who could check up on them and feed them for me. Are there any options out there to have an automatic feeder to feed frozen foods? I would give them live food, but I have a 37 gal. eclipse and I am not sure how I could hook up something to that to give them a continuous supply of live food. The tank is completely covered with a hood. Could I just dump a bunch of pod and brine cysts in there to hatch while I am gone? That would ruin the water quality. Does anyone know of how I could pull a two-week vacation and still have live fish when I get back w/o having to give them unwantedfood