Re: feeding regimen
I feed my fishes the widest variety of whatever they will take: Mysis shrimp, plankton, flake food, krill, frozen baby brine shrimp, Formula One, Formula Two and Julian Sprung's Sea Veggies. However, some of my charges are pickier and will only eat things which are growing on my reef or have the appearance of a whole organism in the water. Most good aquarium references, such as "The Reef Aquarium: From Beginner to Breeder" have good recipes for sea-food mash, as will back issues of "Reefkeeping." Also, if you do a search here, there was a thread on this topic not too long ago. Again, if you comb the good aquarium books, especially those on raising juvenile fishes or invertebrates, you will see numerous mention of brine shrimp more than four days old not being very nutritious, at least in the relatively bare medium most aquarists raise them in.