Frosty Fish Feast: Do you feed frozen food to your reef tank?

[Peace River]

Frosty Fish Feast: Do you feed frozen food to your reef tank?

There are many ways to add food to your reef tank including pellets, flakes, live, frozen, liquid, and more. Whether you make your own frozen food or buy it pre-made, please let us know if frozen food is one of the food options that you add to your tank. Additionally, please share any tips that you have discovered for the best frozen blends, ways to feed, times to feed, and any other key details that may be useful to others in the community.

Pro Tip: Consider using a feed mode when adding food to your tank. However, feed mode doesn’t have to mean turning all the pumps off. Maintaining a small bit of flow can keep the food in the water column without the food flowing quickly to the drain.

Photo by @CJO

Image via @WVNed

This QOTD is sponsored by Nutramar: https://www.qualitymarine.com/nutramar/

“Nutramar’s 100% natural food products are used by public aquaria and breeders around the world. They offer superior nutrition to your most finicky and delicate fish and invertebrates.

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

I installed valves on me return lines to isolate the tank when feeding and be able to keep all wave makers on to suspend food. It also give me the upper hand when adding aminos to keep it strictly in the DT away from the skimmer and other items i feed like this for about 45min and then turn returns back open. Has been working flwlessly without issues and everyone is happy

 

[reeftivo]

i feed a cube of frozen daily with some TDO, coral frenzy, or reef roids at night.

i vary the frozen daily from Rods to PE Mysis, spirulina brine shrimp, mega marine, reef plankton and reef caviar

 

[mfinn]

I feed frozen everyday

 

[Nano_Man]

Yep I use frozen food every other day

 

[Oreca]

Yup, I rotate between the SF Bay Cubes - Marine Cuisine, Mysis, and Emerald Entree.

 

[revhtree]

Image via @WVNed

 

[N1tew0lf1212]

Image via @WVNed

Thats it your sure there isnt more hiding lol hahaha

 

[Minifoot77]

I feed a measured amount every day trying to control nitrate and phosphate through food introduction

 

[Rick2024]

Lrs reef frenzy twice a day. My copperband attacks this stuff, even steals it out of other fishes mouths.

 

[Troylee]

4 cubes daily and I don’t rinse it!

 

[JoJosReef]

Nope, no more thawing for me. Now onto TDO pellets, NLS pellets (clowns) and the rest is a mixture of fully liquid food suspension from Reef Nutrition. Super happy with it. And I can automate it! I still target feed sometimes, because I love my tanks.

 

[WarChief]

I went to one cube a day of Prime Reef.

 

[bushdoc]

I feed ocean plancton,pe mysis, fish eggs and few others, mostly of ocean origin.
My feed mode is customized to set flow pump to 10%, and decrease powerheads somewhat, but to keep food suspended and fish actively hunting for it. After everything is eaten, I create few min “Storm” to stir particles from the bottom.

 

[vetteguy53081]

This sums up the frozen foods

 

[nuxx]

Yes I fed frozen food every meal.

I'd soak the frozen in tank water with some pellets and flakes. Would also add some selcon.

 

[shakacuz]

i feed lrs nano reef frenzy daily. maybe 2-3x/week i feed tdo chroma boost pellets/a mix of benepets and reef roids soaked with some reef moonshiner amino acids. 1x/week i feed nori and 1 hikari sinking algae wafer.

 

[NkSde]

Started mysis feeding from frozen.
Fish coloration has perked up a lot.

 

[KrisReef]

Frosty Fish Feast: Do you feed frozen food to your reef tank?

There are many ways to add food to your reef tank including pellets, flakes, live, frozen, liquid, and more. Whether you make your own frozen food or buy it pre-made, please let us know if frozen food is one of the food options that you add to your tank. Additionally, please share any tips that you have discovered for the best frozen blends, ways to feed, times to feed, and any other key details that may be useful to others in the community.

Pro Tip: Consider using a feed mode when adding food to your tank. However, feed mode doesn’t have to mean turning all the pumps off. Maintaining a small bit of flow can keep the food in the water column without the food flowing quickly to the drain.

Photo by @CJO

Image via @WVNed

This QOTD is sponsored by Nutramar: https://www.qualitymarine.com/nutramar/

“Nutramar’s 100% natural food products are used by public aquaria and breeders around the world. They offer superior nutrition to your most finicky and delicate fish and invertebrates.

I dropped some frozen foods, clams, brine shrimp and spirulina, and rotifers in the cup to thaw out before I left for a 2 day work trip this morning and I wonder what it will smell like when I get home tomorrow night? I left the cup on top of the tank to defrost and forgot to put their food into the tank before I ran out to the airport.

Poor fish are going to be disappointed that their food is rotting and uneaten just out of reach.

 

[zoomonster]

I feed dry flakes, spirulina and nori but also at least mysis and brine. Other stuff gets shuffled in like calanus, reef caviar, coral gumbo etc. If it's like Rod's that costs more than the premium seafood I eat they don't get it.