Food Suggestions

So, I have a 92 gallon tank with fish and live rock only. Currently my family consists of a large emperor snapper, a large lionfish, picasso trigger, porcupine puffer, fiji puffer, sailfin tang, yellow tang, and a snowflake eel. I feed them a combination of mysis shrimp, freeze dried krill, and silversides. Are there any other foods that they would eat that are maybe a little more nutritious? I've had several outbreaks of ick in the past few months and I'm trying to make there immune systems as healthy as possible. Thanks.

 

That's a lot of large fish for that tank. Maybe reduce the stress by giving one or two up? A lionfish (From what I understand) need a bigger tank. Some one please correct me if I'm mistaken.

It would also help us help you by knowing a little more about the system.
What kind of filtration?
How often do you change water? What kind of water?
Chemicals?
How often do you feed?
Have you recently added any live stock?
What kind of clean up crew?
etc

 

I use the bio-balls, a sump, my protein skimmer just broke and I'm getting a new one but I'm treating them for ICK so its been off for the last few days anyway...I change my water every 3 weeks. I think I need to get rid of the snapper, he's huge...The rest of my fish are pretty small. I feed them almost everyday, once at dinner time. I was told that any living clean up crew type would be eaten by my fish.

 

I would recommend that. Not only that, your snapper will start losing his stripes once he starts getting bigger.

Yeah, you don't have much of a shot at a clean up crew with those fish

 

Yea, the snapper is already starting to lose the white and is gaining some reddish tint. I think that getting rid of him will also reduce the waste in my tank a great deal and therefore reduce the chance of ick returning?

 

Soak your current food in HUFA's (like Selcon) and vitamins (vitachem, zoe marine, vitamarin-c, GVH, etc)

 

If your goal is making their immune systems as healthy as possible, its just not going to happen in a 92 gallon tank. even if you have a 200 gallon sump and a 30 gallon fuge those fish wont have any room to move as they get older. puffers and triggers are notorious for picking apart lions spines and stressing them to death. the snapper gets so big, he will not be able to turn around in the tank. tangs need a lot of floor space to roam, and way more oxygen than your tank with its current inhabitants can provide (especially now without a skimmer and dosing with ich meds). the eel makes a glass lid a necessity, but that prohibits a good gas exchange meaning less oxygen for everyone.

I wish you the best of luck to keep this tank going for as long as possible, but it really jumps out at me as a recipe for disaster. make sure the tangs are getting some kind of seaweed (nori works best for me), and only feed meaty foods enhanced with selcon and garlic to everyone else every few days to try and reduce the bio load as much as possible

~Will.