Eric's "famous" coral food recipe

[dweingar]

Eric - Do you supplement the feeding with any live food or just your frozen concoction?

 

[Cichlid2SW]

Curious if anyone adds fish that they personally caught to the 'recipe'?
I am fortunate enough to live in alaska and have an abundant supply of both salmon and halibut available.

 

[coderabit21]

I just finished reading this thread and the question I have is if the small particles such as GPs keeps their same particle characteristics or if they would adhere to each other and become larger taking away from their beneficial size for small coral mouths?

 

[Snarkys]

Golden Pearls comes in 7 sizes . you suggest using all sizes, can you give me a ruff figure of how much of each ?

my understanding this is a coral/fish food if you add a bit more mysis/brine/krill ? this true ?

 

[michaelg]

2 smallest sizes are all you really need.

 

[Snarkys]

do people use this to feed fish also or mainly just for corals ?

 

[michaelg]

Both, if you leave some decent sized chunks in it for the fish. I have seen many picky fish take to this stuff.

 

[tephanis]

does this recipe feed anen's too?

 

[tephanis]

I know this might be alot of trouble but if anyone can...

is it possible if someone could tell me which items are to be bought at a fish store in the recipe

Reason being... since I am a new reefer I have no idea what half those things are and have no idea where to get those things I don't recognize...

just wondering if anyone can help me out

thank you

 

[Snarkys]

where is a good place to buy Super Selco ? only place i found sells it in 1 kg bottles for $95.

http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/iid/6078/cid/1684

 

[Snarkys]

ok i did find normal selco here but i dont see super selco.
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/brine-shrimp-direct-selco.html

just want to make sure it is the right thing because it says you use "drops"

This Artemia or rotifer enrichment formula is rich in Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (HUFA's) and is super concentrated. Just 10 drops per liter or quart of water is sufficient for enriching thousands of Artemia nauplii and adults as well as rotifers.

while erichugo says it pours like a think milkshake.

On Selco, no its not a typo. Selco is the concentrate. Selcon is the highly watered down aquarium version. Selco pours like a thick milkshake. Selcon, by comparison, appears to have about 1/4 teaspoon of Selco in it mixed with water to make up the small bottle.

this stuff rather important to the recipe ?

 

[Snarkys]

Eric,

I asked this in a pm but for the benefit of others here I'll post it again:

In using all the fresh clams, mussels, oysters etc., do you at all feel you are adding a substantial amount of metals into the tank?

I read somewhere out there about the high levels of certain metals in the clams, oysters & mussels you use in your recipe and was wondering if any testing was ever done on any of the molluscs included in the recipe?

I'll find the research on the topic of metals in these kinds of animals and post it if you feel it's at all relevant.

Thanks bud.

has anyone found this to be an issue ?

 

[Snarkys]

take it this is the stuff you dont want.
American Marine Selcon

http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_additives_american_marine.asp?CartId=

 

[Snarkys]

so i was at a seafood store today trying to buy some flying fish roe , sea urchin roe , oysters shrimp .....

dude told me there is like no chance of ever finding flying fish roe without preservatives and ALL of it has artificial coloring . they had it in little cups but he found the main package and it had salt, coloring, "MSG" and some other crap .

he also told me you will never really know if your shimp has preservatives because the suppliers will only tell them or label it about half the time if it has preservatives. so it will be a crap shoot.

pretty much said if they tell you flying fish roe doesnt have preservatives than either they have no clue and just say yes to sell it , they are lieing to get you to buy it or they are just plain wrong . and shrimp is crap shoot at best.

now nothing is absolute and im sure some of you have a place where the stuff is fresh as can be but buyer beware .


BTW this seafood store supplys fish to alot of the restaurants in town and is not staffed by idiots or what i would be to be liars.

 

[jumatomar]

eric- im worried about worm, can fresh food cause worm to accumulate in the tank? i've tried but after sometime i can see tab worm appear on my glass. Is it because of the fresh food?

 

[jennifera]

Eric, I am new to this hobby and have a Eco-Wheel system (donated to my school) which is supposed to support itself. I don't think it does entirely. No one has said anything about needing to feed the corals or the clam(who died). The corals are looking good lately and the polyps are starting to appear places they never were bef0re, but I want to know if I need to do more for them.

 

[Snarkys]

can anyone tell me how much golden pearls to use ? i used like 2-3 cups last time . someone told me that was way to much . prolly is.. ......

 

[saberry]

I've seen variations of this and was planning on making some. I am curious if anyone has ever tried putting it in small ice cube trays (inside ziplocks for freshness)? Then you could just drop in a cube at feeding time.

 

[Azgasser]

that is what i did. worked great. the exact ingredients arent as important as having a variety. i used shrimp, both mysis and whole, crab, clams, cyclopeeze, some sushi wraps, flake food, sushi roe, phyto, etc. all of these i had around the tank. it worked great.

 

[Reefdude5]

What's the best type of fish to use, not only for blender mush, but in general. Is Hadock good? What about talibut? Does it need to be saltwater, or will catfish work? Oily or non oily? WHite or non white? Is there even a general consensus? Anyone's opionions would be great, obviously including Eric's