Alternative foods

[Killerdrgn]

Hi guys, not sure if this has been asked before but what other alternative foods can you feed your large flesh eating corals and fish, besides the frozen packs of fish and shrimp. Would it be better/ just as good to go out to the supermarket and buy a certain fish and just the farm shrimp and chop em up and feed that instead? Or should i just stick to buying hikari(and other brands) frozen foods.
And if I can buy supermarket seafood what should I buy, fish wise, clam wise, shrimp wise, etc...

Thanks!

 

[reefprobe]

fresh clam,squid,shrimp

 

[Killerdrgn]

no fish?

 

[Bob 1000]

I caught a sand shark last year and have fed it to my groupers in small pieces for a long time now.. My lobsters like it too.

 

[inkblue]

suShi eggs :Blurp:

 

[Killerdrgn]

So no fish, I don't think i'll be able to catch a sand shark anytime soon unless if theres going to be a MR fishing meetup.

How about Cod, salmon, or getting "doctor" fish? any of those good to feed your fish and corals?

 

[spacenyc]

dried shrimp

i ve been feeding the dried shrimp from asian food markets. i like it because some floats and some sinks and it slowly softens so everyone gets some. would nt fresh fish give off all kinds of oils that can go rancid?

 

[Killerdrgn]

Sweet found fresh silversides in hong kong supermarket for only 3.75 a lb.
I also got this random fish in there if anyone can give a kind of id, but anyways into the blender they go!

 

[Bob 1000]

Tide pools in brooklyn off the Belt can give you some nice live silversides..

 

[BZOFIQ]

SIlversides are good and you can get them by buckets at Plum beach. Plenty of other stuff to collect there also.

 

[Killerdrgn]

umm where?
Anywhere in queens?
How would i catch these so called silversides?

 

[Bob 1000]

Where I would have to show you I don't know how to give the directions to the spot I go to sorry... Do you fish???
They get stuck in tide pools and you can just scoop them out..

 

[Killerdrgn]

I fish occasionally, but it's usually go on charter boats where they give you everything you need already.

 

[Bob 1000]

Oh okay.... I will try to put together the directions the next time I go for you..

 

[BZOFIQ]

Well, I collect at Plum beach which is in Sheapshead Bay section of Brooklyn. Going towards verrazano, you take exit 9 and make a u-turn, once back on the highway just exit at the first exit area. If you are comming from the verrazano, exit at the rest stop past exit 9B. Go onto the beach (make a left) and walk towards the end if you want to reach tidal pools. If you have a seine, you can just enter the water and collect them when the tide gets in.

 

[GQ22]

frozen oysters from asian food markets. Take half an oyster and press it through a garlic press. The results are awesome. the mashed up consistency gives off particicles great for SPS tank, and all fish.