what is the best all in one food?

[jacksonpt]

I make my own food. That is the staple food of my fish and corals.

Shrimp, squid, clam, fish, scallops, brine shrimp, cyclopeeze, and nori (if I have a tang or other veggie lover). Chop everything up really fine and throw in some selcon/vita chem/etc.

I was wondering if anyone did this. I've been thinking about it for a while as a cheaper/better alternative to mysis and brine.

Do you just buy standard seafood at the supermarket? Frozen or fresh?

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Fresh and untreated. You don't want to re-freeze any meat let alone tender seafoods. I made my own for more than a few years. There is no control where the foods are harvested.

 

[Korrine]

+55 to NLS!

Best frozen all in one food is roggers reef food. No questions asked. Ingredients are better than Rods reef food.

Other than nls, just feed a mix, try to get as much natural algae and copepods etc into your tank for the best supplements to NLS.

I don't know. Both of them look pretty comparable. What do you like better about Rogger's?

Rod's Original blend

Ingredients include:

Shrimp, Scallop, Oyster, Clam, Squid, Octopus, Perch, Green Nori (porphyra sp), Red unroasted nori (porphyra sp) Mysis, Krill, Pacific plankton (Euphausia sp.) Brine shrimp, Frozen red cyclops, Fish eggs, Oyster eggs, Golden pearls (all sizes), Broccoli, carrot, Garlic, Selco, Astaxanthin (Haematococcus pluvialis), Beta-meal (Dunalliella Salina), Freshly harvested rotifers, freshly hatched baby brine shrimp.


Rogger's Complete plus


Ingredients: Wild caught shrimp, squid, octopus, shucked fresh clam and juice, mussels, scallops, lobster, 100% pure spirulina, fresh pressed garlic, 100% pure fresh aloe vera, Cyclop-eeze®, and Selcon™

 

[NirvanaFan]

I was wondering if anyone did this. I've been thinking about it for a while as a cheaper/better alternative to mysis and brine.

Do you just buy standard seafood at the supermarket? Frozen or fresh?

Sorry, I never saw your post. I use standard supermarket seafood (Wegmans). I try to get fresh, but sometimes have to get frozen. They don't always have fresh squid. I've had to buy that frozen before. They look at you a little weird when you buy a whole bunch of different seafood in such small quantities.

The last time that I made the food (with ReefBoarder) we put in a little bit of phytoplankton (nannochloropsis). It helped to soak/coat the seafood when we were cutting. It made it not stick to the blade of the knife as much. The squid is a real pain to chop so finely, but everything else is pretty easy.

Also, I don't "throw out" the juice of any of the seafood. The clams definitely release a lot of juice, but the shrimp soaks a lot of it up. Fish LOVE this food. And it's good to feed to LPS corals because of the small morsels in it too.

 

[acdraindrps]

I like pizza.

Ya beat me to it. :wildone:

 

[jsteele]

+1 for pizza. Who's buying?

 

[toby2009]

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