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Marine Fish Food & Supplies

We stock a wide variety of food & supplies for marine fish in all its forms
Due to the large number of fish that we hold in stock, we take their food intake very seriously & so only sell the very best products money can buy. This ensures the best possible health of the livestock as well as the cleanliness of their watery surroundings!

Frozen
As all our fish live healthily and happily on frozen foods, we obviously stock plenty of it!
The main frozen packs being RUTO and ALF @ £2.60 per pack.

Our stock includes:
• Brine Shrimp
• Mysis
• Lance Fish
• Mussel
• Cyclops
• Marine Mix
• Krill
• and many others

Marine food fridge
   

Live Food
We have a continuous supply of brine shrimp and river shrimp for those awkward feeders or your triggers, puffers and lions that enjoy the chase!! Seahorses and pipefish also benefit frombeing fed live brine regularly.

Live phytoplankton is an extremely important food for a great many animals that are maintained in reef aquariums and the best on the market is DT's Live Marine Phytoplankton.

DT’s Live Marine Phytoplankton is concentrated and cleaned to provide nutritious live phytoplankton without the contamination of excessive nutrients or metals from the culture media.

It is very rare for phytoplankton species to survive refrigerated storage. DT’s Plankton Farm only uses species that have been proven to survive refrigerated storage for the entire five month shelf life our “best if used by” date is based on.

Marine reef aquariums can be populated with a variety of phytoplankton feeding animals.

Although some of these animals may feed on preserved phytoplankton, some will reject dead phytoplankton or detritus as food and not consume it. Clams have been shown to reject nonliving partials, passing them instead as pseudo-feces.  Only live phytoplankton will be accepted by all phytoplankton feeding animals.

DT's Natural Reef Diet - Oyster Eggs

Oyster eggs are harvested and packaged as a food for corals.

Oyster eggs are highly nutritious, with high levels of protein and omega3 fatty acids.

The particle size is extremely small at approximately 45 microns. The combination of small size and soft texture makes this an easily captured food particle.

Corals for which this food is particularly useful are those with poor prey capture responses and those with very small polyps.  Included are Porites, montipora, Goniopora, gorgonians, soft corals, and the oyster eggs even show some success with the maintenance of previously difficult or impossible to maintain azooxanthellate soft corals and seafans.

DT PhytoOyster eggsCopepods

DT’s® Live Marine Copepods Subtropical Harpacticoid sp.

Copepods that thrive in reef aquariums!

These subtropical Harpacticoid copepods are a warm water species that will develop a thriving population in reef aquariums. Copepods are an especially nutritious small prey item for many corals and small fish. This species has an adult size of about 900 microns.

Copepods feed on phytoplankton and are also an excellent scavenger, feeding on detritus of any kind. The best place for these copepods to reproduce and grow is in a refugium or aquarium.

It is DT's intention to provide a starter culture of copepods that will thrive in reef aquariums. They cultured this species at an average temperature of 82.5°F (28°C), so it is a species that will do very well in a reef tank.

These copepods are also very tolerant of cooler water and will do just fine in the 70’s, so they can be kept or cultured at normal room temperature.

Harpacticoid copepods have a life span of approximately 2 months. Some of the adults that are harvested will be near the end of their life span. There will also be eggs hatching and other individuals that will not easily be visible without the aid of magnification. We have test jars that have been kept for months and it is obvious by their population that they are reproducing in the jars.

copepod female with eggscopepod malecopepod nauplius
Dried Food
We always have a huge selection of New Era flake food and Spectrum granular food in stock.

Part of our own stock's diet incorporates these foods and they come very highly recommended. We also stock flake food from Aquarian and Tetra Marin plus Sea Veggies (dried seaweed) from Julian Sprung.

Please let us know if there is any other food products you require - we try our utmost at all times to have the best products & the widest selection possible in store at all times.
Dry marine food

 
   
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