I have found several recipes for homemade fish food and seen several people mention feeding live clams etc. My question is where do you get the food at? I know the grocery store has sea food but ive read it has perservatives etc in it so would that be safe to use. Have no idea where to even look for live clams. Can someone lead me in the right direction to get the fresh sea food.
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juniorrocketdad
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I just buy at my supermarket just make sure to rinse it off
Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
Stay away from most pink fish. White, wild caught is the best to use along with squid, scallops, ect
juniorrocketdad
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I agree use wild caught ingredients and for the fig any white flesh fish will work well fish like salmon are too oily anyway
LobsterOfJustice
Recovering Detritophobe
For what its worth - I prefer to freeze the ingredients, and then run them over a cheese grater.
I've tried using the blender a few times and I always end up with particles that are way to small and way too large, and a small amount of food that is the ideal size. Cheese grater ends up with uniform sized pieces. Also much easier of a clean-up.
I've tried using the blender a few times and I always end up with particles that are way to small and way too large, and a small amount of food that is the ideal size. Cheese grater ends up with uniform sized pieces. Also much easier of a clean-up.
LobsterOfJustice
Recovering Detritophobe
And yes, once my wife caught me shredding shrimp on the cheese grater, she bought a new one. So I have a dedicated grater for "fish food" use. I tried to explain that the "fish food" was people food, just being fed to fish, but didn't win that discussion. So a cheese grater is probably cheaper than a dedicated blender or food processor, if thats the kind of thing your wife is going to care about 
I only make a sandwich baggie of food at a time which lasts me about a month. If I was making larger batches, a food processor would probably save me some time and effort.
I only make a sandwich baggie of food at a time which lasts me about a month. If I was making larger batches, a food processor would probably save me some time and effort.And yes, once my wife caught me shredding shrimp on the cheese grater, she bought a new one. So I have a dedicated grater for "fish food" use. I tried to explain that the "fish food" was people food, just being fed to fish, but didn't win that discussion. So a cheese grater is probably cheaper than a dedicated blender or food processor, if thats the kind of thing your wife is going to care about
How does that always seem to go that way..Try to explain it's just shrimp. Look, here's the bag. Never matters. Get new grater.:facepalm:
OrionN
Moved on
If your seafood smells you should not use it. They can have a scent just like any food. However if it is smelly it is spoiled. If you smell sushi fish, that is the scent it should have. Sea food spoil much quicker than meat.
roberthu526
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Oriental markets have plenty of sea food to choose. And most of them are kept frozen or on ice so the quality is usually good.
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Try grating, shaving, chopping, processing seafood that is only "almost" frozen, not quite hard. It handles much better than when it is raw. You have much better control over particle sizes.
When you do this spread the cut up particles of food out on a sheet of tin foil or wax paper paper so you can freeze them without having them freeze into a single big blob. You can group them into small blobs that are appropriately sized for your individual feeding sessions. You can roll up a wax paper sheet with your made food on it to put into a freezer. Then you unroll as much as you need to each time you use it for feeding and return the remainder of the food to the freezer, preferably before it thaws.
When you do this spread the cut up particles of food out on a sheet of tin foil or wax paper paper so you can freeze them without having them freeze into a single big blob. You can group them into small blobs that are appropriately sized for your individual feeding sessions. You can roll up a wax paper sheet with your made food on it to put into a freezer. Then you unroll as much as you need to each time you use it for feeding and return the remainder of the food to the freezer, preferably before it thaws.
cougareyes
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If you will eat it why wouldn't you feed it to your fish. When it's pink it's been cooked, you obviously want it raw. I like getting it already frozen; shrimp, scallops, squid(calamari in human speak). Trader Joe's has a nice frozen bag of shrimp, scallops, and squid. I chop this up and add selcon, zoe, and angelelixir to it. Do you really think the quality of LRS is better than human grade seafood; at $20 for 4oz. I feed my tank of puffers, triggers, angels for months on $20. I also feed other stuff.
