Frozen Foods

[vanquish]

When I go into my LFS I see a huge array of frozen foods for fish. Among them are:
Beefheart, Bloodworms, Daphnia, Krill, Mussel, Mysis Shrimp, Plankton, Reef Plankton, Sand Eels, Silversides, Squid, White Mosquito Larvae.
Along with several kinds of Brine Shrimp:
Baby Brine Shrimp, Brine Shrimp, Omega Brine Shrimp, Spirulina Brine Shrimp.
I hear mysis is way better than brine, but what about those omega and spirulina ones? What do you all feed? What is the most nutritious? What works best for you?

 

[emmitt]

The krill and mysis are the only thing ive gotten my tank to eat out of those. They wouldnt touch most of the others. I finally broke down and took peoples advice and made my own. I got like 50 cents each worth of squidd, scallop, shrimp, mussels, clams and salmon put in some selcon, zoecon, and garlic. Puree'd and froze it. So far they love it and for that $4 its enough to last at least 2 months or more.

 

[vanquish]

everyone says of mysis and brine shrimp, mysis is better. I compared the backs of two packages and they seemed to be nearly the same, so my question is: what really is the dif? :notsure:

 

[connor]

mysis has alot of nutrituion and brine is like eating chips for fish

 

[moby]

IMO, the most important thing to remember is a feed variety of foods.
Mysis is more nutricious(sp?) than brine but a diet of any one food is not desirable either.
Moby

 

[dmjordan]

I alternate between frozen brine, mysis, formula 1 and bio-blend marine food staple diet small. My fish won't touch flake food at all.

 

[stanlalee]

I use mysis and reef plankton (another term for pods). Livestock loves em both. If the mysis and brine shrimp have the same nutritional value on the package then the brine is probably fortified or harvested at the early stages when there is more nutritional value. Niether one is all that or staple diet material.

 

[happyhourh]

stay away from frozen formula 1 and 2. They have this gel binder in the mix and the cube stays whole. I cut mine up really fine but my fish dont seem to like it.

 

[wilsonreef]

I agree with happyhourh, I've got 2 new packages of the formula 1 and 2. It doesn't dissolve enough for the fish to eat it. I wound up taking it out of the aquarium. I alternate between Mysis, emerald entree, brine shrimp, and marine cuisine. Then seaweed salad about every other day. But all of my fish will eat flake too.

 

[dragonladylea]

Also depends on what you are feeding. Fish, corals (soft, lps, sps), inverts etc. I have some of all of these categorys so I feed a mixture of things which include mysis, brine, krill, bio-plankton, phytoplankton, cyclopeze, oyster eggs, marine cusine etc. I mix it in a cup, and feed. Everyone is healthy and happy.

 

[vtfishies]

i make my own also..whole garlic,mussel,crab,shrimp,clam,etc..no salmon tho due to its got alot of oil and good folks on the boards have stated not to use them...

 

[stone]

I use salt water bay Saltwater Multipack Cube
it has 1 row of Marine Cuisine, 1 row of Emerald Entree, 1 row of Frozen Squid, and 1 row of Omega-3 enriched Brine Shrimp. But my fish are not pickey they willeat anything I just like the way it floats and gets pushed by the power heads. Every one seems to get some

 

[cgrant]

I feed ghost shrimp, formula 2 (my fish have no prob picking apart the cube), mysis, brine, conch, krill, thats all I can think of for now.
I tried silver sides and none of my fish will even go by it, not even the puffer.
Whatever you buy or make just make sure you have a good variety :happyfish

 

[lion_crazz]

A large variety is key to keeping healthy fish.
On a weekly basis, my fish are on a rotation of Formula A and B, Reef Formula, Algae Formula, Angel Formula, Julian Sprung's Sea Veggies, gut-loaded ghost shrimp and fresh chunks of bananas. All of my food gets dosed with Zoe, Selcon, VitaChem and Garlic Xtreme. Formula A and B, Reef Formula, Algae Formula, and Angel formula are all frozen foods (and together, they contain: krill, kelp, seaweed, lettuce, peas, prawn, mysis shrimp, clams, scallop, lobster, plankton, sponge, algae, squid, zooplankton, spinach, salmon, sardine, spirulina, mussel, fish, and fish roe.)

 

[unleashed]

food formula should be based on types of fish you keep i have a very large variety of fish which need differnt dietary needs so i buy a large variety of foods(prepared)
(ocean nutrition)
formula 1, formula 2, prime reef.pygmy angel formula,angel formula
(other frozen)
emerald entrese,mysis shrimp, krill, squid yum yums,clam yum yums, cyclopseze, silverslides,
(dried)
veggie flakes (omega one)
thera+A pellets by spectrum
seaweed selects(brown. red and green variety as a treat
freeze dried krill also as a treat only(very few of my fish wil touch this)
i thaw all frozen foods in a cup of fw add garlic extreme and selcon once thawed i smoosh all cubes then pour into the tank
as far as food quality goes i have done extencive research on the ingredience of all of these foods in comparison to other brands and have found these to be some of the best of adding natural ocean ingredients and vit suppliment