fish mash recipe

[digidana]

morning... :wavehand:

i pulled a fish mash recipe off of the etrc site, but i have some questions. i don't know what some of this stuff is...i don't know weather i should get them at the fish store or the grocery store!

silversides? are these like minnows?
selcon?
golden pearls?
phyto feast? sounds like a fish store thing?
what's a DT?

also where do you get amino acids and oyster eggs?

...and...dang, i'm avatar elligible now, but can't figure it out. it keeps saying my file size is too big, even at 1.7kb!

 

[cee]

Most of those can be had at a fishstore, but I don't know where you can find one-stop-shopping for them in Knoxville. DTs is a Photoplankton mfgr. by DT. Silversides are small fish that are purchased frozen. Selcon is a food additive/lipids for growth. Golden pearls are (I think) a mollusk egg. Amino acids can be purchased locally, mfgr. by Seachem, Ecological Laboratories (Microbe-Lift), and Zeo (cha-ching on that one).

That recipe was design to completely feed your tank, from fish all the way down to filter feeders and clams. You may not need some of the ingredients depending on what you stock. Good luck! To obtain all ingredients is going to be somewhat costly depending on what you already have. I just use traditional foods with an occasional addition of Reef Chili (freeze-dried plankton, essentially, to get the small foods into the tank).

 

[digidana]

wow, ok, i didn't realize there was that much to it. maybe i'll just stick with brine/mysis shrimp, flakes and pellets for now. thanks!

 

[Angela Short]

I have made the fish mush 3 times and let me tell ya its stinky and a huge up front cost but lasts forever. As cee states you may not even need the pricy things like oyster eggs and golden pearls. I stopped feeding the mush so much because it can add a ton of nutrients to the water. I feed it mostly as a treat now and use reef chilli or cyclopeze (sp?) for the small stuff every now and then for the corals. My fish grow like mad on plain ol flake, pellets (different ocean nutrition formulas) and nori so they must be getting what they need .

 

[digidana]

hmmm, think i'll just stick with the premade stuff for a while...we've got enough to worry about right now! thanks!

 

[seased]

fyi - there is a fish food DIY article in this months Reefkeeping magazine. It does not have too many ingredients and looks fairly easy to make.