Seafood exploration: Do you feed any unusual items to your fish or corals?

[Peace River]

Seafood exploration: Do you feed any unusual items to your fish or corals?

Pellets, flakes, powdered, frozen, and live foods – we are all familiar with the standard food options to feed our fish and corals. After all, these are the foods that reef keepers all feed to our fish and corals, but is there anything else? Whether it is berries, blanched vegetables, or something else, do you feed any unusual items to your fish and coral? If so, we would like to hear about it! Please share you experiences and recommendations (bonus points for pictures!) in the related discussion.

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[RockBox13]

I have fed a Remora a chicken nugget.

 

[Cthulukelele]

I occasionally feed live white worms or frozen blood worms to my fish which I think is uncommon

 

[KrisReef]

I collect live clams when I go to the beach and shuck and freeze them what I don’t feed them fresh on arrival.
I like to bbq salmon (skin down) and there is always some flesh left on the skin when I finish cooking. The fish and coral are very happy to eat the salmon flakes that are left over once they are cooled.

 

[Shon]

Used to feed brine shrimp Gerber Baby Rice Cereal mixed with crushed fish flakes and spirulina powder.. which were fed to fish..

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following, I'm curious to see what people feed their livestock

 

[AtlantiCat]

My primary tanks are freshwater, so I also keep some more terrestrial foods. Everybody seems to be pretty receptive to live Grindal Worms. Granted they're probably not live for very long once they hit the water.

 

[randomfishdude]

I have fed mysis and jumbo mysis to my stylo.

I also feed my torches ether jumbo or regular mysis daily.

 

[Gtinnel]

My fish mostly eat seafood I buy at the grocery store and chop up, plus some live white worms. I’m not sure if I would count any of that as unusual or not.

 

[ZoWhat]

I collect live clams when I go to the beach and shuck and freeze them what I don’t feed them fresh on arrival.

That may not be legal in your area

a few years ago a woman was sentenced to 15 days in county jail for collecting live conch

Woman who collected queen conch seashells in Florida sentenced to jail

A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days.

www.usatoday.com

 

[RichReef]

I feed my LTA one large earthworm a week. I have 4 Eastern Box Turtles and buy worms grown for pets. They aren't from my back yard.

I'm pretty sure the LTA enjoys the fight. The worm doesn't go quietly but it can't escape.

 

[ReeferLou]

I used to feed my BTA live goldfish

 

[DrEggroll]

I fed some crab legs and lobster to the tank before. Crabs were excited

 

[randomfishdude]

I used to feed my BTA live goldfish

>: (

 

[Fishy888]

Mine get a DIY frozen blend of carrots, broccoli florets, garlic, kale and turnip greens. My DIY meaty blend is pretty standard but it contains earthworms too.

 

[Catboyeuthanasia]

My Duncan enjoys the occasional flightless fruitfly. It seems to like them quite a bit. These are specifically cultured for dart frogs, so I assume they are clean

 

[Sump Crab]

I'm a fisherman so I clean lot of fresh fish and when I find roe I usually give a good feed to my reef. I also toss in earthworms from time to time.

 

[betareef]

That may not be legal in your area

a few years ago a woman was sentenced to 15 days in county jail for collecting live conch

Yes, it depends on local rules. For example we have a huge area where you cannot collect any gastropods - except pipi's which are a type of clam, commonly used as bait by fisherman, and eaten by people.

I'm a fisherman so I clean lot of fresh fish and when I find roe I usually give a good feed to my reef. I also toss in earthworms from time to time.

\Roe is a good idea. I will try that next time I see some as I am cleaning fish. Thanks!

 

[betareef]

I like to bbq salmon (skin down) and there is always some flesh left on the skin when I finish cooking. The fish and coral are very happy to eat the salmon flakes that are left over once they are cooled.

I am interested in how they accept cooked fish. I have heard some people used cooked prawns (shrimp) for fishing bait, so it seems that wild fish will eat cooked seafood.

 

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Turns out duncans love bristleworms