home made coral food
 

Does anyone make their own?, does it work well, how do you feed it?, will you share the recipe? :smile:
And, I can't find uncooked shrimp anywhere. Any suggestions? There is always tiger prawns, but never shrimp

costco has bags of uncooked shrimp.. also if you go to the seafood section of safeway or save on foods ect.. hey should have uncooked shrimp on the ice.

Steve

They always seem to be cooked. Or maybe they just look cooked. Don't have a costco card,but freind does :biggrin: thanks for the info.

what kind of corals are you feeding??? brains? frogspawn? sps?
I use all varities of fresh seafood cut in chunks to feed the bigger corals, and the sps and other filter feeders love frezedried mysis shrimp ground into a powder

This must be a stupid question, but how exactly does a coral like frogspawn eat? I've yet to see any of my corals consume food (mysis, brine). The whole time I was thinking they're surviving off phytoplankton.

Brain, SPS, and soft. Never tried freeze dried. Just can't see any nutrition staying in a srivled up piece of shrimp :confused: . After you grind it up do you soak it into water before feeding? I would think a syringe and spot feeding would work with this.

I don't have a frogspawn (yet) but I would just place food onto it with a baster. Thats how I feed my sun and brain corals.

freze dried has all the nutrition that fresh food has but without the water, water is the only thing taken away from the shrimp.

I buy the 2lb bag of mixed seafood(clam,squid,mussels,shrimp)and blend in frozen bryne shrimp,nori and salt water.blend into fine paste,fill ziplock bags,lay flat and freeze.All the fish and my soft corals love it.Just disolve in some tank water and use baister.

Jim

freeze dried is about the 4th best ways to preserve food. fresh has the most nutritional value, frozen is next, flash freezing, then freeze dried. the process of freeze drying destroys some ameno acids and proteens which is why it is not as nutritious as the others.

Steve