Can I feed cooked mussels to my tank.

[TWYOUNG]

I haven't been able to find live mussels so I purchased these frozen ones not realizing they're cooked. Can I feed these to my tank?

 

[blaxsun]

What reef inhabitants are you feeding?

 

[EricR]

Not sure but I'd "guess" it won't hurt anything but fresh would be better.
Seems like worst case scenario is cooking cooked out some of the desired nutrients and maybe your fish won't like it since they're not used to cooked.

*don't take that as a good answer,,, just speculation

Multiple local super markets have live shellfish counters so I just buy clams/mussels live,,, never tried cooked

 

[TWYOUNG]

What reef inhabitants are you feeding?

I have mostly herbivores, My Flame Hawk should like them and I also have Tangs, Foxface, Firefish, AE Filefish, LM and Tailspot Blennies, Six Line Wrasse, Clowns. I tried briefly in the past with live mussels and no one showed any interest but I have since added crabs and two cleaner shrimp whom I would like to make sure are getting something to eat.

 

[Auquanut]

Not sure I would trust the term "Natural Sea Brine".

 

[EricR]

I have mostly herbivores, My Flame Hawk should like them and I also have Tangs, Foxface, Firefish, AE Filefish, LM and Tailspot Blennies, Six Line Wrasse, Clowns. I tried briefly in the past with live mussels and no one showed any interest but I have since added crabs and two cleaner shrimp whom I would like to make sure are getting something to eat.

Of the livestock you mentioned, the matches I have are clown, tailspot blenny, skunk cleaner shrimp.
They all love fresh/frozen clams/mussels.

I buy live, shuck, chop, freeze,,, then chop up frozen chunks into almost minced pieces to dump in the tank,,, FWIW

 

[Spare time]

Yes it should be fine. Just watch out for preservatives that could dump phosphate in the tank (trisodium phosphate for example). Arguably it's better for the fish in terms of energetics

 

[TWYOUNG]

Of the livestock you mentioned, the matches I have are clown, tailspot blenny, skunk cleaner shrimp.
They all love fresh/frozen clams/mussels.

I buy live, shuck, chop, freeze,,, then chop up frozen chunks into almost minced pieces to dump in the tank,,, FWIW

Won't they eat a mussel if it's not chopped up?

 

[jabberwock]

Not sure I would trust the term "Natural Sea Brine".

Or organic...