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martym 01-22-2004 12:52 AM

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

StirCrazy 01-22-2004 12:53 AM

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

martym 01-22-2004 12:56 AM

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.

UnderWorldAquatics 01-22-2004 12:57 AM

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

dekay 01-22-2004 01:02 AM

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.

martym 01-22-2004 01:02 AM

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.

martym 01-22-2004 01:03 AM

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.

UnderWorldAquatics 01-22-2004 01:13 AM

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

kuatto 01-22-2004 01:16 AM

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

StirCrazy 01-22-2004 02:05 AM

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


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