seafood food

[1guydude]

I remember reading somewhere someone at sometime lol
Went to winco and got mixed seafood bags for $5.:

Idk if it was frozen or not. I'd prefer fresh.
I'm looking at making my own foods. Better for my tanks and my wallet hopefully.
Any input or advise is great!
Thxs
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[stylaster]

Should work fine I grind it up in the blender and then pour it out as a flat sheet and make your own food with it and refreeze it. Just make sure the 'crab meat' is real if not i always just ate the imitation crab meat lol

 

[Sean112280]

I know at costco they have a mixed seafood bag, but like you said its frozen.

 

[kimberlee1]

Works great, I like to add some selcon, and garlic, sea weed and rinse it well w/ RO. Than into a blender.

 

[1guydude]

So frozen is ok? Trying to cut back phosphates.
Thinking I might add some garlic drops, marine flakes, and jumbo mysis.
Non frozen would b good too cuz I wanna chop with a knife. Not buy a new blender or use ours that we rarely use.
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[kimberlee1]

fresh is best, but requires searching for the different things

 

[DTECH07]

Go to the Bohan off South Tacoma Way. Its a Korean super market that has EVERYTHING fresh and at a lower price including Seaweed heat dried. imho

 

[trido]

So frozen is ok? Trying to cut back phosphates.
Thinking I might add some garlic drops, marine flakes, and jumbo mysis.
Non frozen would b good too cuz I wanna chop with a knife. Not buy a new blender or use ours that we rarely use.
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Just rinse it.

I never cared for the frozen mixed seafood bags. None of my fish ever seemed to care for the leather tough octopus and other mystery pieces of meat.

I use;
Prawns
Cod
Clams

From the store

Then I also add;
mysis
rotifers
cyclopeze
and krill

Then to finish up I add some selcon to just ofr good measure.

It costs about $20 for three months worth of food. I feed a large chunk about the size of a quarter every day.

 

[1guydude]

I'm terriable about this trido. Straight from the freezer to the tank for defrost.
I do initially rinse with rodi and re freeze but still after awhile the freezer burn no bueno lol.
Thxs for input everyone!

 

[kpiotrowski]

Your best shot at he "freshest" seafood is to buy it currently fozen as not much is availble truly fresh. markets are requied by law to label what is in their display cases what has be previously fozen and what is trul fresh also.

 

[NC2WA]

1guy, read this link before you buy any food: http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/f15/home-made-fish-food-27304/

 

[trido]

I'm terriable about this trido. Straight from the freezer to the tank for defrost.
I do initially rinse with rodi and re freeze but still after awhile the freezer burn no bueno lol.
Thxs for input everyone!

When I make up my food I end up with 3-5 ziploc baggies of food depending on how much I make. I put a small amount of food into the ziploc(enough to fill the baggie over an 1/8" thick) lay it on its side and squeeze all the air out before sealing it. If you put too much food into the bag its thick and hard to break off chunks of it.

The only baggie I worry about freezer burning is the one I am using. Even when it does start to freezer burn its only minor and my fish and corals don't complain. I use a full sized ziploc of food every few weeks because I have 18 fish in my tank. For a smaller tank, just use snack sized baggies.

 

[1guydude]

That's a good link thxs.
Talks about using jello for a binder...intrested in that. I know its not actually jello but...agar?!?!
5yr old thread and still relevant.

Ill deff look around for prob a week. For food dat is. Fresh veggies r good idea. Maybe instead of marine flakes ill add some red and green algea sheets u tang luvers use.
Idk about vitamins and such. Isn't that in the foods???

I wanna keep it low cost... but plentiful.
Easy no blender
All fish and coral.
I know of rods and luv it but the pe mysis and brine aren't cutting it.

 

[senji]

i use mojos recipe basically everything in the seafood dep pureed add garlic and freeze into old mysis trays. just stay away from things that have high fat/oil such as salmon. my fish and coral go nutz over homemade blender mush. i feed blender 2 times a week and coral frenzy 2 times a week. i do an every other day cycle for example. Monday blender mush, tuesday nothing, wedsday coral frenzy, thursday nothing, friday blender mush, sat nuthing so on and so fourth. i feed nothing on off days so tank can clean itself naturally and such. if i remember right nemcrazy has a tank the is full self sustained he dont feed it at all. it wont hurt anything. promise

 

[trido]

, tuesday nothing, thursday nothing, sat nuthing

Wow, you're a mean guy huh? I feed my fish three times a day every day and I find they count on it. When I dont certain fish start to pick on clams, SPS and LPS. Nori in the morning for the Tangs, freeze dried mysis and pellets at noon from the auto feeder and frozen food every night. I have a big skimmer and my philosophy has always been feed heavy just shy of browning the corals or having a cyano outbreak and skim heavy too.

 

[TJL]

WOW! I have a hard time believing that there are Reefkeepers out there still starving their Fishes for sake of their Coral or to reduce maintenance. Very few Fish species will thrive with this philosophy. Most of our Reef Fish prefer multiple feedings a day and some require it. Exceptions could be very light fish stocking in large system with copious amounts of pods and macro algaes. I feed and have fed 3-5 times a day for over 30 years now in most always high bio-load systems. I try and keep a varied diet by usually having 3-5 different frozen foods plus NLS pellets and Seaweed Extreme pellets in two sizes. So in my stuffed 125g I will normally go through 4-6 cubes of frozen and maybe a teaspoon each of the two mixed size pellets.
Now back on topic, I am also to the point that I'd like to start making/mixing up my own frozen concoctions but would like to keep it varied and not just one large batch of the same ( I love steak and potatoes with a veggie side but would not want it every day) So maybe we can turn this thread into a couple/few regional Group Workshops and create some real quality fish food mixes to all share in.....???

Cheers, Todd

 

[kimberlee1]

I like the idea of turning it into a group work shop, right now I am trying to get multiple cultures going for the purpose of adding the into my home made food as well as using it for live feed. I am also researching a food grade pro biotic supplement to use w/ the live cultures.

 

[aja19919]

Yes! YEs! YES! I like to feed daily as well, however as of late my nitrate levels have gone up. I have no idea if it's from the Seahare or the reduction of 2 fish or just over feeding. I currently mix a concoction of mysis, oyster goo, rod's coral , phyto, coral frenzy and amino acids. I bought the Garlic Guard but it looks like it's just a flavor and not real garlic. Truly believe in a healthy tank through healthy food.

 

[senji]

thought this was coral diet i feed non phos flake food on the off days for the fish. no worries im not starving my fish no need to send the tang police. lol

 

[blk822822]

I feed almost every day. I just wish my sailfin tang and foxface would eat my hair algae and not just wait for food. But when I go to my tank with a food container they fallow me to the end of the tank and gather up and wait for food. I have to wait to feed my snow flake eel every few days though.