HOT TIPS Column: October Issue of Advanced Aquarist

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HOT TIPS Column: October Issue of Advanced Aquarist

October's theme is "Reef Food Recipes." Please submit your home-made reef food recipes that you have found have worked well for you. Your tips and tricks will help new and existing reefkeepers and also helps to bring the hobby to the next level (plus it's just cool to get published in a magazine like Advanced Aquarist).

When published, your hot tip will have your username published (along with your real name if you so desire). Every month we will be running a new HOT TIP thread so stay tuned and help out when you can.

The staff at both Reefs.org and Advanced Aquarist would like to thank you for your continued interest and support of our online community, magazine, and services.

Let the submissions begin!

Best regards,

Reefs.org and Advanced Aquarist staff

 

[Anonymous]

My basic food recipe.

The seafood put it right in the freezer when I get home from the store, and when I am ready to make the food I let it sit on the counter for a little while so it gets partially thawed, I find it works better in the food processor that way. The seafood I get from the grocery store.


Add to food processor equal parts (about a small handful) of:

* raw shrimp (peel most of the shell off as my fish won't eat that, I used to try and make them eat it by blending it in but it makes the food extra gooey and the shells still make a mess in the tank)

* raw squid. This MUST be partially frozen, it will not chop for me in the cuisanart if fully thawed.

*raw salmon, about equal part to the other seafoods, cut into cubes.

Pulse the food processor until you have a mash with little chunks dispersed within.

Add one sheet of nori, torn into little pieces, a quarter teaspoon of golden pearls, and a squirt of Selcon, then pulse a few more times.

Spoon into small ziplock baggies, and squash flat and thin, squeezing any air out. Freeze flat. If you do not squash the bags thin enough it will be tough to break off an appropriate size piece.

 

[dgasmd]

Here is my list of ingredients and recipe:

*One large fish fillet. I personally don't use salmon as I find it fatty.
*10-15 very large raw saltwater shrimps pealed
*One large packet of thawed krill. Drain the water before adding.
*1-3 larger packets of thawed mysid shrimp. Drain the water before adding.
*Large amounts of 2-3 different flake foods.
**4-8 oz of frozen cyclopeeze.
*3-4 large sheets fo nori
*3-4 table spoons of minced garlic
*A few squirts of children's multivitamins
*A few squirts of selcon
*A few frozen food packets like squid, bloodworms etc. Thawed and drained.


Mix in a blender until it is like thick mud. Then, pour in smaller ziplock bags and freeze it while flat. When I feed, I take parts of the block and thaw it by itself (no added water). Then, I add the chunks to the tank.

What I have learned:
-I don't add the water from the frozen foods because it tends to make the mix too watery.
-I don't add pellet foods because it tends to make the mix very powdery and wastefull when feeding.
-I don't add mollusks like clams, mussels, oysters, etc because I find them to have a larger content of heavy metals.
-This food is incredibly concentrated and should be treated as such. You can pollute the heck out of a tank with it if not feed appropriately. Start slow and with very little and work your way up. Only add what the fish will actually eat.
-Your blender will only last 1-2 sittings of this food. I guarantee you it will die on you.