Eric's "famous" coral food recipe

[PoggiPJ]

Re: Re: Slow Dripping fish Recipe?

Re: Re: Slow Dripping fish Recipe?

Pete, Eric

Any concerns about decomposition ? After all, I guess that the food is thawed and warm for much of a day if you are using this method.

Pete, I guess you first dissolve a "cube" in tankwater ?

kim

Yes, sometimes dissolve the cube in tankwater, sometimes blend fresh - but since the feeding bag has a fairly wide opening i also slip in a few ice cubes to keep it cold. I've been experimenting with different dosing rates but usually at a rate that will empty the bag fairly quickly. Since I work from my home office and can hear the empty bag alarm , I don't have to hang a very large quantity at one time.

I also dose my phytoplankton this way, which is culturing at room temperature anyway.

 

[kbd]

Thanks folks,

I like the ice cube idea....should be good for a few hours around dusk. I know some people are dosing dead food all day while they are away from their tanks, without any attempt refridgeration, and I'm not sure it's a good thing.

kim

 

[PoggiPJ]

Kim,
Another idea I am considering is rather than hanging the bag on a hook, is to to place the bag in a small styro container with a standard freezer cold pack to maintain refrigeration. A small, thin slot cut through the side just under the cover would accomodate the tubing.

 

[kbd]

Cool,

Next thing will be a small fridge.....just enough space for a bag of yukky stuff and, what, say a couple of beers ?



kim

 

[PoggiPJ]

Kim, I'm one step ahead of ya. Look where my 240 is located. Just to left you'll notice a barstool and footrail

 

[kbd]

kim

 

[juststartingout]

I thought I had a decent mix(clams,shrimp,squid,selcon), but this tops the cake! Thanks for the valuable info.

Don

 

[MarineMark]

I just started up a SPS tank, should i feed this to it, would this help ?

 

[wasabi]

i built my bar around my tank...less travel time

 

[bergzy]

yum!!!

just tagging...

 

[The Escaped Ape]

Eric and others,

I made up my first batch of this yesterday. Ingredients below.

Fresh seaweed (nori, wakame (Undaria pinnatifida), konbu (kelp),

Live razor clams, clams, shrimp, live sazae (type of of turbo snail eaten as sushi here believe it or not!),

Dried zooplankton, dried decapsulated artemia nauplii, a mix of freeze dried stuff (inc. mysis, brine shrip etc.) and a liquid vitamin supplement.

As I'm using fresh seaweed rather than dried (one of the benefits of living in Japan!), I seem to have quite large particles of seaweed in my mix (up to maybe 1mm across - sorry not sure what that is in inches). Is that likely to be a problem?

 

[The Escaped Ape]

One more thing. I was thinking of adding some frozen copepods/baby brine shrimp/mysis shrimps. A good idea for next time?

 

[michaelg]

Sure- great choices on the additional ingredients- I would not "blend in the copepods- just hand mix them in.. If you don't have herbivores in the tank, you might cut back on the algae. Size is about right after blending. Usually it is eaten by the fish when I feed it.

 

[The Escaped Ape]

Thanks Michaelg. Next time I may some up I'll cut back on the seaweed (or maybe get myself a herbivore...).

 

[dgphelps]

I live in California, can I use seaweed I find on the beach here? There are all types of it, kelp, flat green sheet type, brown encrusting on rocks...

 

[nterry]

Table Salt

Table Salt

Hi,

As long as we're discussing recipes, I remember reading that if you use frozen food, don't use food with presevatives. Well, our local grocery store carries a brand of frozen shrimp whose ingredients include shrimp and salt. I'm assuming that means NaCl--any problem with adding such shrimp to coral food. Will the sodium or clorine ions harm the corals?

Thanks.

nterry

 

[michaelg]

no, should be fine. I always try to buy it fresh though. The 40-50 ct shrimp aren't very expensive. I freeze back what I don't use for the batch and use it to feed the anenomes.

 

[szesteve]

Just a quick question to everyone here.

When u feed the coral food, do u turn off all the pumps or just let the pumps run?

Will there be a slight cloud effect for a while?

 

[EdKruzel]

Cloudiness is always an effect of adding particulate matter to water.
I turn off the pumps when target feeding, however many corals require force to catch prey.

Leave them off for a short period and then let 'em rip!!!

Ed

 

[wasabi]

i drop all my food into high flow areas. it works for me