What food can I get at the grocery store for my fish?

[One Reefing Boi]

When you go to the grocery store and get some fresh food for your tanks, what do you usually get? I only have 2 clowns, a firefish, conch, 3 nass snails, and a skunk cleaner. They eat pellets and frozen mysis/brine, but figured I would throw in some fresh food for them as well.

 

[sp1187]

shrimp, oysters, clams, mussels from the seafood counter

 

[Sebastiancrab]

shrimp, oysters, clams, mussels from the seafood counter

Do the clowns eat all this?

 

[a4edwin]

Once you put it in the food processor yes. Then you got lta freeze the rest of it.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

shrimp, oysters, clams, mussels from the seafood counter

Yep. Fish is good too. Salmon or? Oh and squid and octopus

 

[One Reefing Boi]

Food processor

do you just blend it then freeze some or something?

 

[sp1187]

I don't feed any of that. just know that's what others use.
I feed pellets, frozen brine, mysis and blood worms and my favorite R.O.E>
fish love it. shrimp and crabs love it. corals love it.

 

[One Reefing Boi]

I don't feed any of that. just know that's what others use.
I feed pellets, frozen brine, mysis and blood worms and my favorite R.O.E>
fish love it. shrimp and crabs love it. corals love it.

what is the consistency on this like? It looks so small almost like reef roids? Is it a paste, liquid? seems promising

 

[sp1187]

fish eggs about 1mm in diameter (pin head?) in RO water. so they all separate in the tank. I always use a turkey baster to feed so I can spot feed the corals and then the fish.

 

[TonkaReefer]

My Bta's love scallops from the seafood counter.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

do you just blend it then freeze some or something?

I blend up seaweed, fish, scallops, squid, octopus, shrimp, mussels, ect all together with a little bit of water. Then I put it in ziploc bags, flatten, and freeze

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Yum

 

[Sebastiancrab]

I blend up seaweed, fish, scallops, squid, octopus, shrimp, mussels, ect all together with a little bit of water. Then I put it in ziploc bags, flatten, and freeze

So, if I understand correctly, all this goes in a blender then frozen. How do you break apart in small portions? Just snap off a piece? Where do you get the seaweed?

 

[Sebastiancrab]

Yum

Looks delicious!

 

[xxkenny90xx]

So, if I understand correctly, all this goes in a blender then frozen. How do you break apart in small portions? Just snap off a piece? Where do you get the seaweed?

Yep. I only put a little bit in each ziploc so that it is very thin and easy to break off. The seaweed (and the rest of the seafood) I get at the asain supermarket.

 

[Lovefish77]

I get any wild caught sea food.

 

[Reef.]

I use theses, made of silicone, easy to get the cubes out.

 

[Lovefish77]

I use theses, made of silicone, easy to get the cubes out.

But these cubes are tiny though. Depends on how much you feed

 

[Reef.]

But these cubes are tiny though. Depends on how much you feed

I have a tiny tank lol

they are small but not as small as they look, maybe half the size of a standard cube from frozen food.

 

[Lovefish77]

Another option