buying raw fish/inverts from a&p/shop rite...? whats good/bad?

[ryangrieder]

i was just curious, is buying different fish from a food store like a&p or shop rite any more or equal in healthly benifits then just your basic frozen foods at a lfs? i usually just buy about 10-15 different types of frozen foods and chop and mix them all up with vitamins and refreeze them. it usually lasts me for a month or so, but im constantly spending around 60-70 bucks total in the food. starting to hurt the bank because im due for some more food... but, i also do buy raw shrimp from a&p and chop that up too and notice my fish eat that way before they touch my mysis, brine, plankton, or anything else i use. if i start to try new things like clams, mussles, raw shrimp, or anything else on ice at the food store, is that any better in terms then just frozen food? i know it would be alot cheaper because i can buy 5-8 raw srimp for a dollar and lasts much longer.
im really big with varity when it comes to feeding, and thought id take a trip tonight to the a&p and pick up some new things, but if its either not healthy or not any better then just my basic fish food then i might cancel my trip. also, is there anything bad that you could buy or unhealthy? like is precooked fish/inverts not good? i have tried awhile back some type of small fish they had, and cut it up and my fish, mainly my triggers, went crazy for it! but then i wondered afterwords if that was not safe cause its raw or just a random fish? another night we bought some lobsters and had a nice dinner one night, but one of the lobsters before looked kinda wierd. it was really small and just did not seem like it would have alot of meat for us to eat. so we decided not to cook it. so i put it in fresh water and killed it, then i cracked it open and took some raw meat, cleaned it real good in some RO water and fed it to my fish and they loved it as well. i dont know i want to just check... and finally is there anything you reccomend that is good at a food shop?

 

[TRUKINGNY]

tagging a long i will like to know the answer to this info

 

[Widdy]

I've made a few batches that consisted of scallops, oysters, shrimp, roe, cyclopeeze, white fish, nori, slecon, garlic juice. Fish loved it... Over time I just got lazy and banked on Rod's or Rogger's. Few MR members posted their food creation adventures...

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/general-discussion/14364-ok-its.html

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/general-discussion/52038-yummy-want-bite.html

 

[tttony]

I ve been feeding frozen /then thawed shrimp, squid,flounder for years to my fresh water monsters, lion fish and tusk, and my elagance and other lps coral. Never feed them cooked , so that what ive read in several other sites. Any thing that comes out of the ocean and is good enough for us is good enough for our fish. Around here I can get a pound of small shrimp for $5.00 , i cut it up with shears and put it a zip bap nice and flat so its easy to break of a chunk and defrost.

 

[tentacles]

Just make sure you clean them really well, and add vitamins if you're so inclined. One thing I've noticed that others do is that they add mysis and some flake/pellet food. I've thought of doing this myself, but I have a small tank to feed (around 1/2 cube of mysis per day if I'm feeding corals, about 1/3 cube if it's just the fish,) so I don't really break the bank buying the large sheets for $15, because they last for well over 2 months. For those who have to feed large tanks, it's a good move fiscally

 

[ryangrieder]

so, pretty much anything thats good for us is good for them...just not cooked? anything more benificial in either protein or fat or anything then others?

 

[basiab]

anything more benificial in either protein or fat or anything then others?

You would probably have to look that up in some books, maybe at a college library. The only thing hobbyists can say is whether their fish and corals like the stuff or not and whether they saw improvement and that is usually not too scientifically valid.

 

[ryangrieder]

Well its agood thing I'm sitting in my car at my college parking lot now lol. Maybe ill take a walk up the hill to the library now and see if I can come up with anything

 

[beerfish]

Nutrition information is available all over the place now. A quick search will turn up protein content, calories, fat, etc.

Here's a link with some of this info:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drryan42.htm

Here's a link to the Seafood Watch Program:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx

 

[ryangrieder]

thank u

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Fish should be OK. The main problem with supermarket seafood is that much of the shrimp and scallops are treated with sodium tripolyphosphate. The stuff makes them absorb water and look plump. Scallops should only be used if they are labelled "dry packed", but those are only sold in good fish markets and the fanciest supermarkets. For shrimp, go for the frozen packages and read the ingredients.

 

[Imbarrie]

I buy from a fish market and mince it all together with flakes vitamins and cyclopees.

Then I coat a cutting board with saran wrap and place egg crate on it. Then spread the food all over the egg crate and freeze it.

When Im done the food pops out and I thaw that. They go nuts over it.

As for nutrition, anything with a high HUFA content, Salmon and roe.

 

[wonderballz]

great idea imbarrie! Gonna do this next time