Reef Food?

[alabrew]

I was in the asian market the other night and found "seafood soup base" in the frozen food section. I has shrimp, octopus, squid,??... in it. I was thinking that I could defrost it and add it to the blender/food processor and make my own fish food. It was only $3.00 for 1 lb. Has anyone tried this? Did it work? TIA

Kim

 

[danmhippo]

I would suggest not, reason being those mixed package stuff are either cooked, or pre-washed (too clean).

Get yourself a seafood feast and saves a bit of everything to make your reef happy!

 

[Henry1]

danmhippo is right. this stuff will be 'too clean'

It is actually much easier to make your own reef food.

I did mine this way,
500g clam
200g shrimp
100g squid
100g scallop
100g oyster
50g white fish
50g nori
1 tsp multi vitamin
2 tblsp Cyclop-eeze (from Argent)
2 tblsp pure cod liver oil

Just make sure all the seafood stuff are fresh.
Lightly wash them and drip off excess water.
Chop and coarse blend them together.
You will find the blended mixture to have both coarse and fine particle.

Pack them into a ziploc and press it into half inch slabs, then freeze them.
Once frozen, you may cut the slab into half inch cube and pack them back into the freezer.

During feeding time, half thaw the required number of cubes. When the fishes bite, the fines will be carried through the water column to the inverts and corals.


cheers