Frozen Food

[lesbill]

PS If the seafood you're using smells bad enough to bother you I'd look for a different store as I wouldn't feed it to my fish either

 

[esmithiii]

a few shrimps, piece of fish

Isn't "shrimp" plural already?

Premium aquatics (www.premiumaquatics.com) sells frozen food:
http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merchant ... Code=Mysis

One of the best frozen foods you can buy IMO is mysid shrimp. See link:

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merc...PA&Product_Code=MYSIS-8OZ&Category_Code=Mysis

 

[lesbill]

"Shrimp"...right

 

[Jeff Hood]

Ok, I am like the original poster in that I like the easy way out and not necessarly the cheaper way out. the stuff in the package is very easy especially if it is available mail order.

Now, I have made a batch of home made food to try it and it was indeed very easy but one problem.

When I made it the food preperation had lots of chunks and sizes of food but suspended in a very cloudy thick pasty fluid that I thought would foul the tank very quickly. Looked more like a seafood milkshake. Do you people worry about all this proteinacous debris going into the water column. Do all the filter feeders realy use that stuff? The frozen food I buy does not have any of this thick cellular debris. Maybe my blender sucks and it pulvurised instead of chopp.

Also another point is, In other animal husbandries it is recomended to feed animals whole organizms because just the muscle flesh does not provide everything the animal needs to thrive. For instance, some lizzards need extra calcium if you only feed insects because their natural prey are baby mice etc... We could not get this species to thrive in captivity until we started dusting the crickets with calcium powder supplements. Once we learned this they thrived. Is there a problem just feeding the muscle flesh of these store bought foods to our fish use to eating whole organisms in nature?

Any thoughts?

Jeff

 

[SPC]

Posted by Jeff:

When I made it the food preperation had lots of chunks and sizes of food but suspended in a very cloudy thick pasty fluid that I thought would foul the tank very quickly.

-I do not have this problem once it has been frozen.
As far as feeding the whole animal to the fish I would imagine this might be a per species situation.
Steve

 

[Carpentersreef]

Posted as a matter of fact....

EmilyB brought over some of her frozen food recipe for my tank, and they loved it.
Check out her webpage:http://members.rogers.com/dbh/dh.html

Mitch