best frozen foods ?

cityreefer · #1 09-06-2011, 01:36 PM

looking for input on what is the best type of frozen foods? i have used mixed blend in the past as my tank only has 2 smaller fish in it (clown, 6 line wrasses)

any ideas are great, thank you

Madreefer · #2 09-06-2011, 02:53 PM

If you choose not to make your own frozen food which I think is the best than PE Mysis is a good product.There is alot of good home made recipes, just do a search. Kien has a good one.

naesco · #3 09-06-2011, 03:29 PM

Carefully read the label of all frozen and other fish and coral foods.

Some products are made in China and therefore the quality of the food is questionable.

Myka · #4 09-06-2011, 03:31 PM

I like homemade recipes too. They are cheaper, and you know the quality of the ingredients. However, with only two small fish it would be difficult to make a good homemade food without having way too much of it! My favourite frozen food and diet staple is PE Mysis. After that, I like San Francisco Bay brand.

fishytime · #5 09-06-2011, 04:07 PM

"Ocean Fresh" plankton.....it's a salt water mysis shrimp..... Contains more of the omega and fatty acids that our salty friends would get naturally in the wild

Myka · #6 09-06-2011, 04:14 PM

I like the look of that one Doug! I use San Francisco Bay Plankton which is the same specie, but the Ocean Fresh brand looks like better quality.

I should probably add that I use Selcon with all frozen fish foods to provide essential fatty acids.

Pirates_Gold · #7 09-07-2011, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishytime

"Ocean Fresh" plankton.....it's a salt water mysis shrimp..... Contains more of the omega and fatty acids that our salty friends would get naturally in the wild

How much fatty acids are more than they get in the wild? Why would you want to feed your salty friends more?

Supporting analytical data illustrates that PE Mysis has less Crude Fat (8.35% dry weight) compared to that of the Ocean Fresh (18% dry weight). The PE Mysis also has a higher Protein content (69.5% dry weight) compared to that of the Ocean Fresh (58% dry weight). High Ash content is one parameter that I have always watched. It appears that the PE Mysis is much less (5.5% dry weight) compared to that of your Ocean Fresh (13% dry weight). I cannot compare the heavy metal contents analysis, but do see that they exist within your Ocean Fresh.

I understand that the Aqua Treasures and the PE Mysis Shrimp are harvested from the same freshwater lake, however, I cannot find any comparable analytical data on them. I find them less Oily than the PE Mysis.

chandigz · #8 09-07-2011, 03:55 AM

I don't have a favorite but here are my top choices. I feed different food for different fishes needs.
Cyclopeeze for smaller fish(Nano), mandarins, coral, gorgs. I've never had a problem to get mandarins to take cyclopeeze as a first food. They are pod eaters so they get pods(cylopeeze)
PE Mysis has always been good but I like the ocean fresh plankton better. Similar in size but the strong shelfish smell of the plankton says it all for me. The feeding response of my corals was insane with the ocean fresh. As soon as it hit the water everything new it was feeding time. Too bad I can't find it here locally which is kind of funny because it's caught just north of here.
Hikari Mysis because they are way smaller then the PE mysis and a little bigger then brine shrimp. Sometime PE mysis are just too big.
Being right on the ocean, some of the best I feed would be stuff I get locally and freeze myself.(Uni-Urchin eggs, oyster ovary/eggs, herring roe)

The Grizz · #9 09-07-2011, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishytime

I have been keeping fish for close to 25 years

Wow Dougster you are old!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Myka · #10 09-07-2011, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishytime

are you forgetting, Mindy, that I probably have a generation on you.......sally's and others started with plankton based foods in the nineties....... fairly recent in the grand scheme of things

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishytime

and I mention the age thing because I have been keeping fish for close to 25 years...... well before specialty foods like plankton were available

I'm not that far behind you Doug. I had my fish freshwater tank in 1988, and first saltwater tank in 1992 or 1993. It helps that I'm quite a bit older than I look, albeit you do have some years on me you old fart.

I don't know what foods were available at that time because I only had one saltwater store to shop at (which was in the USA) and no internet to help figure things out. I know I had some sort of frozen food...can't remember what it was. Just in the last 10 years have people been looking towards diet as the cause of ailments such as HLLE and HITH, albeit now "they" think that carbon might play a bigger role than anything.

I imagine the food requirements of fish stuffed into a little box are probably less demanding than their wild counterparts. Take a look at the dog food world...there has been a trend to go to grain-free, high protein kibble to mimic a wild dog's diet. The trouble with that is there are a bunch of couch potatoes being fed the diet of a body builder.

I'm all for feeding "natural" diets to all my pets, but I don't see it as the be all end all, and definitely not a cure all. Just because something looks right, doesn't mean it is best.

I don't think you're wrong Doug, in fact I think you`re likely "onto something"...not necessarily a new something.