what do you feed your moray

[buraccha]

hi!

Currently, im feeding my SFE with silverside from san fransisco bay brand and table raw shrimp. I notice that buying fish food from my lfs is pretty expensive (30$ for the silverside 8oz. bag).

So i would like to go cheaper but with more variety with seafood you find in local grocery or fish store.
I would like to know from moray keeper what kind of frozen food you feed.
There is many variety of foods you can get from your local grocery (shrimp, scallop, mussel, squid...) But, i dont know which are the best.


thank you

 

[Duke4life]

hi!


There is many variety of foods you can get from your local grocery (shrimp, scallop, mussel, squid...) But, i dont know which are the best.


thank you

All of what you mentioned including clams and crabs. Get it raw or not cooked and packaged with no preservatives.

 

[buraccha]

how can you know if there is preservatives or not in pack?

 

[Duke4life]

The labels on them should say if anything else has been added. If you have a seafood department at the store they should know what does and doesn't if you have questions.

 

[hotelbravo]

I like to go to my fish market and pick out food right off the boat so I know its fresh and I feed squid, shrimp, oyster, clam, and small bait fish. I like to rotate the food out

 

[Megistos]

Raw shrimp, squid, octopus, mackerel, anchovies, smelt, really just about anything they can get at will work as long as it's raw and not packed with preservatives.

 

[LukFox]

I like to pay attention to what the species has been noted to mostly feed on in the wild (dictates the staple type of food, fish or inverts), and go by the safe foods on this list.

My moray gets a whole bunch of things.

 

[andregarcia_73]

That a nice link. I feed silversides, anchovies, squid, octopus, shrimp, soft shelled crab, macarel, cuttlefish, etc. I do use vitamins and pre-soak the food overnight. I get it fresh from the market on a bi-weekly basis. I really like Dr. G'S silversides. Has anyone else used these before?

 

[alprazo]

I throw in about 2 dozen minnows from the bait store. It takes about 3 months before they are all gone. That's it.

 

[Kynigos]

Freshwater fish aren't a good diet for marine fish.

 

[alprazo]

If you are talking about minnows, they are salt water. How else would they live a couple months before being eaten.

 

[Kynigos]

Yeah I read too quickly and didn't catch that part!

 

[buraccha]

is anyone tried feeding your moray with Hikari massivore delite?

 

[Megistos]

Pellet foods are less than ideal. Morays don't really scrape/peck at rocks and substrate like pelagic fish.

I usually just use raw seafood items (as listed above) on bamboo skewers and target feed.

 

[Dmorty217]

I feed mine raw shrimp

 

[buraccha]

Pellet foods are less than ideal. Morays don't really scrape/peck at rocks and substrate like pelagic fish.

I usually just use raw seafood items (as listed above) on bamboo skewers and target feed.

but if i can feed him with a feeding tong the pellet?
i just want to know if the nutrition in the hikari pellet are good for morays and for other fishes.

 

[Duke4life]

but if i can feed him with a feeding tong the pellet?
i just want to know if the nutrition in the hikari pellet are good for morays and for other fishes.

Would you want to eat pellets if you were your eel? Just curious as to why you are wanting to go this route in feeding.

 

[Duke4life]

To me pellets and eels don't go together, just like running a minute trace of copper and eels don't go together. Think long term here my friend.

 

[Duke4life]

Are pellets the only thing you can get easily?

 

[Steve C]

Bit late to reply on this thread but I would say yes absolutely feed pellets but not exclusively. Prepared foods are great nutritional foods, and generally vitamin enriched, most of the time we don't feed whole animals I.e organs, stomach contents etc so even though we vary the food items it's not really that varied. Hence why we gut load feeders. My white eye moray loves massivore pellets to the point that he will stick his head into a tube anemone to pull them out. I can tell he gets stung as he usually twitches a bit afterwards.