Food for your fish and sps dominated system??
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Rod's food is supersaturated but not dirty. Here is a frozen food recipe that Kip has posted online years ago, although Eric is not looking for frozen food. This is similar to what I use for food. For Eric, I would suggest looking into a Reef Chilli recipe.
Fresh seafood:
Some combination of the ingredients below and it makes up a relatively small percent of the total - maybe 10-20%?
shrimp (I squeeze the heads and usually use the "meat" in the fish food)
oysters - blend well and may have Vibriostatic properties
various other shellfish (mussels, clams, periwinkles, etc. - the bloodier, the better...live is great (shucking sucks but gives a good final product)
Fish roe (sometimes available at Asian markets)
Frozen foods
This makes up perhaps 20-30% of the mix - some are from an aquarium store, some from the grocer
Artemia - adult
Artemia nauplii (baby brine shrimp) (enriched, if possible)
Mysid shrimp
Sea urchin roe
Flying fish roe
Dried Aquarium Foods
this makes up the majority of my mix - probably 40%
Golden Pearls - all sizes available, but a majority of the smallest size
Cyclop-Eze
VibraGro
Powdered marine flake
Phytoplankton
makes up maybe 2% of mix or less?
Tahitian Blend (I use DT's seperately)
Supplements
makes up maybe 2-5% of mix?
Super Selco ( a big squeeze)
Sea Green Vitamin supplements - various brands, powdered, from Whole Foods market
I have also been known to add Echinacea capsules, the skins of colorful vegetables and fruits, various pigment complexes of carotenoids, etc. and/or antioxidants from Whole Foods market.
In terms of preparation, I puree the solid seaoods, mix in the frozen ingredients, soak the dry/powdered ingredients in the wet ingredients, combine them all together and let them sit for a few hours, and then freeze them into small flats in ziplocs in the freezer. I usually wind up with about 50.00 in foods per batch and make about a gallon or so of food that lasts a couple or more months.
squid
clam
scallops
crab
oysters
various shrimp
fish roe
golden pearls (small) or DT's oyster eggs
spirulina powder
shelled brine eggs
dried copes
dried rotis
cyclopeeze
sweetwater zooplankton
frozen PE mysis
smashed to a powder O.N. Prime Reef flake
vibragrow small
ground nori
selcon
HTH!
Frozen Food Fish and Coral Food Ingredients 1
Fresh seafood:
Some combination of the ingredients below and it makes up a relatively small percent of the total - maybe 10-20%?
shrimp (I squeeze the heads and usually use the "meat" in the fish food)
oysters - blend well and may have Vibriostatic properties
various other shellfish (mussels, clams, periwinkles, etc. - the bloodier, the better...live is great (shucking sucks but gives a good final product)
Fish roe (sometimes available at Asian markets)
Frozen foods
This makes up perhaps 20-30% of the mix - some are from an aquarium store, some from the grocer
Artemia - adult
Artemia nauplii (baby brine shrimp) (enriched, if possible)
Mysid shrimp
Sea urchin roe
Flying fish roe
Dried Aquarium Foods
this makes up the majority of my mix - probably 40%
Golden Pearls - all sizes available, but a majority of the smallest size
Cyclop-Eze
VibraGro
Powdered marine flake
Phytoplankton
makes up maybe 2% of mix or less?
Tahitian Blend (I use DT's seperately)
Supplements
makes up maybe 2-5% of mix?
Super Selco ( a big squeeze)
Sea Green Vitamin supplements - various brands, powdered, from Whole Foods market
I have also been known to add Echinacea capsules, the skins of colorful vegetables and fruits, various pigment complexes of carotenoids, etc. and/or antioxidants from Whole Foods market.
In terms of preparation, I puree the solid seaoods, mix in the frozen ingredients, soak the dry/powdered ingredients in the wet ingredients, combine them all together and let them sit for a few hours, and then freeze them into small flats in ziplocs in the freezer. I usually wind up with about 50.00 in foods per batch and make about a gallon or so of food that lasts a couple or more months.
Frozen Food Fish and Coral Food Ingredients 2
squid
clam
scallops
crab
oysters
various shrimp
fish roe
golden pearls (small) or DT's oyster eggs
spirulina powder
shelled brine eggs
dried copes
dried rotis
cyclopeeze
sweetwater zooplankton
frozen PE mysis
smashed to a powder O.N. Prime Reef flake
vibragrow small
ground nori
selcon
HTH!
ColaAddict
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If the reef version of Rogger's didn't smell so ba, I'd keep using it. I'm switching to Rods because it doesn't stench up my house as bad.
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