Feeding?

[Landolakes]

I love learning what other people feed their fish and one of the foods that seems to come up a lot is clams. Now my question is what clams are you guys feeding your fish? I think my combination of fish would love a little treat but not sure which ones or where to get them.

 

[NirvanaFan]

I feed new life spectrum pellets, formula 1 pellets, and a homemade mix of seafood which includes fish, the cheapest clams (I think they're brown) at Wegmans, squid (has good fats for them), scallops, shrimp, finely chopped nori, selcon or some other vitamin, cyclopeeze, baby brine shrimp, and some rotifers if I have any to spare. I think that is my seafood mix, but I may have missed something. I get it all at Wegmans.

I'll be returning your PM here in a minute.

 

[E_rock]

Also interested in more homeade seafood mix

 

[sanchezdamin]

In equal parts:

Scallops
Clams
Mussels
Salmon
Prawns
And 1 sheet of nori

All blended in a food processor.

There is a good article on feeding a reef, found here:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/sbj4/aquarium/reeffood/feeding.htm

 

[DEEP BLUE SIX]

You can pretty much make your own as laid out above. Blended or bagged in larger or various size chunks. It's all obtainable from a good seafood provider. You can buy it in bulk amounts from some wholesalers who also sell retail to some customers. (Seafood warehouses) As well as fine stores like Wegmans and some others. You can spend a bit sometimes up front. But in the long run it lasts longer making your own sometimes compared to the portions for retail made for the hobby at LFS's.

It should all be raw and have no artificial ingredients or contaminants. Do your own cutting and start by washing it all in RO water. Batches can made in mini or regular size ice cube trays as well as just plastic bagged and Frozen afterward. Must be fresh when you get it and nothing applied to it- preservatives or spices etc.. All shell fish with shells still on preferable etc..

It ends up being a high quality mix of your choice. I use my own make ups from time to time as well as Nori and a mix of made for hobby food too. Rods food, PE Mysis, various Hikari mixes, Ocean Nutrition mixes and dry pellets by ON and Omega One.
For large robust fish the Squid mixes and even hobby "clams on the half shell" work excellent.

 

[sandworm]

I have a Copper band that eats only clams. I buy the cheap ones and freeze them. I feed him one about every other day. My Purple tang and Wrasse go crazy for it while the Anthias hover over and eat the scraps.
I found to freezing them makes it less messy and the fish eat the whole thing.When raw big chunks break off and get caught in my SPS's

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I never feed clams.
Some of the commercial frozen mixes might have clams in 'em and that's as close as it gets for using bivalves as aquarium food. My Copperbands, Leopard Wrasses, Mandarinfish etc. have always relied heavily on finding food inside the aquarium. My big Angelfish gets frozen broccoli florets and big chunks of frozen "Marine Supreme", "Prime Reef", krill, nori (etc.) and won't bother with any small foods.
I never saw any sense in feeding clams... especially if you have Tridacna in your reef aquarium.