Homemade Fish and Coral foods?

[duec22]

I was going to make some fish and coral food and have a question...Is there any reason none of the recipies I've looked at don't include and fish meat like salmon..

 

[GreshamH]

Ever see a salmon swimming amongst corals J/K, dunno why you don't, kinda seems like a logical source of lipids, etc.

 

[duec22]

That's what I was thinking...I got some raw shrimp, some squid, and I got some salmon for myself figuring I would just cut some off and put it in with the reast of the food..and when I started looking at the recipies I could find none of them had and fish other than smelt or silverside every once and a while.

 

[GreshamH]

IMO salmon would be better then silversides.

 

[Justin74]

The only possible downside I can think of and Im not sure how relevent the amounts are; but, is the trace amounts of mercury being commonly found in testings of salmon and a few warnings/newscasts over the past couple of years. Theres a couple of takes and sorry I cant remember but it was to the affect of 'this salmon collected here is higher, while the salmon in this region are virtually free of said elements...bla,bla.' ' wild salmon has 'X' amounts while farmed salmon has 'Y' amounts...' sorry about the lack of details but someone here may know/heard these topics before, and yes these warnings were directed towards human consumption, but I know mercury as an element has been known to "strip" streams of there biodiversity/ecology, Im sure that would extend to our reefs if your blending it up, speculating of course .

-Justin

 

[Nu2SW]

I would believe that every fish in the ocean would have some trace amount of salmon, Of course some more then others.

 

[funman1]

I now feed once a week Tuna (in water).

I add just a tiny pinch (it breaks up easily).
My fish and inverts seem to love this more than anything else I feed. It's like a weekly special treat for them they crave.

 

[duec22]

I'm not too woried about the mercury issue. It is wild caught salmon that I'm useing so the levels will be higher than farmed salmon, but there isn't much of an issue with the low levels.
I have done mercury testing on fish caught in the foothills and mountains...I can't disscuse the results though..
I can say that you are far better eating most of the trout you catch out of the lakes and streams, because most of them are planted. I would say away from eating a lot of the bass and catfish though. Every once and a while isn't going to be bad.

 

[GreshamH]

Depending on where the salmon is farmed, depends on if it has more mercury then wild. Some places in the north, have some pretty darn high levels of mercury in their farmed salmon.

 

[GreshamH]

FWIW, our local caught salmon are really low in mercury Lower then N. Ca even!

 

[duec22]

I put all the frozen pieces I cut up last night into the blender when I got home and it worked great. Nice small pieces that all the fish and corals could eat. The LPS went crazy over it....the fish weren't quite sure at first because they have been pretty much eating flake food only for a while, but after a few bites they were sold.

 

[Fragmented]

I use wild salmon in my mix. My mix is different every time depending on what is available. I think the reason salmon isn't included in recipies and smelt and silversides are is cost. Mercury can be found in any fish. One reason I don't eat fish.

 

[GreshamH]

Mercury can be lowerred in your body, by simply drinking green tea after every fish meal.