Feeding clams to fish

[Shobloth]

Anyone have suggestions on preparing muscles or clams for fish? I've read that people split them and put them in, some people use a blender with some water.

I was also wondering if it's ok to serve chopped moderately cooked clams for ease of opening them?

Any tips are appreciated

 

[Dmorty217]

If you cook them then you will lose nutritional value in the clams. Clam on the half shell is readily available at most LFS or at least easy enough to find on the internet. What are you trying to feed the clams to so we can better understand the best way to serve them up. Clams on the half shell are pretty self explanatory. Just drop it in the angel or butterfly in question should tear it up

 

[Shobloth]

Was thinking of chopping them up for the following fish / nems in 4 different tanks: blue cherub angel, coral beauty, purple fire fish, red fire fish, 3 clowns, purple tang, 2 fairy. Wrasses and various gobys. I was also told that if you blend them and squirt a small ammt on zoos & other corals at night that it's really good for them. (There's a marine biologist that lives near us that swears it makes her zoos thrive)

 

[Dmorty217]

ok so just a broad feeding to multiple fish. You would have to chop them up for all the fish but the angels since they have a ripping motion with their mouths. It would benefit the zoas i am sure. There was a article awhile back in the reefkeeping magazine about a guy that had nothing but zoas in his tank and he swore that regular water changes is what made his really thrive and grow.

 

[snorvich]

When I feed them, I split them, rinse them and in they go.

 

[Dmorty217]

When I feed them, I split them, rinse them and in they go.

Same here

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

I buy bags of whole clams and mussels and keep them in the freezer. I pry them open, rinse them, and drop them in for the pickers.

For broadcast feeding of planktivores, I buy a bag of frozen scallops and run them over a cheese grater and make my own flat packs in ziplock bags.