Question for those who make their own fish food

[nietzsche]

i bought a packaged mixed combo mix that the store makes, but it doesnt say what's in it. from what i can guess it might be crab meat, some oysters, some white meat, and some dark brown meat that might be catfish? what is and is not usable to make food for the fish?
heres some pics:

 

[nietzsche]

no one?

 

[dragonboy]

The crab meat looks like imitation crab meat I would get each separately in case you dunno what are those meat in there.

 

[renogaw]

i wouldn't trust it. the brown stuff looks like muscles though.
here's my lovely homemade food!

 

[reefkprz]

the fake crab in that store mix is cooked, you shouldnt feed that to your tank. while the other ingeredients may be raw fake crab and real crab comes precooked from your grocers.

 

[dcrawford]

I found these threads to be useful related subjects.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/271292/making-your-own-food
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/268119/how-to-spot-feed

 

[nietzsche]

not sure what the white meat is, someone had suggesed bass? i think those are mussles though. having a hard time looking for a place that sells seafood uncooked. theres a place im going to go to tomorrow to try to find some stuff

 

[florida joe]

The white meat with the red outer color is called imitation crab what it is actually is Alaskan Pollock

 

[renogaw]

Originally Posted by nietzsche
not sure what the white meat is, someone had suggesed bass? i think those are mussles though. having a hard time looking for a place that sells seafood uncooked. theres a place im going to go to tomorrow to try to find some stuff

your grocery stores dont sell raw seafood?

 

[nietzsche]

Originally Posted by renogaw
your grocery stores dont sell raw seafood?
they do but it either has some type of seasoning or it's cooked or its just not what im looking for
i found a couple of other places that sell seafood only so im going to try that

 

[matt b]

Originally Posted by renogaw
i wouldn't trust it. the brown stuff looks like muscles though.
here's my lovely homemade food!

yummy

 

[hefner413]

Originally Posted by renogaw
i wouldn't trust it. the brown stuff looks like muscles though.
here's my lovely homemade food!

that looks like so many things other than fish food. mmmmmm good.
just had a thought - any of you use the grating that we use in frag tanks to pour their homemade food into and freeze? making cubes?

 

[nietzsche]

like the egg crate you mean?

 

[renogaw]

its easy enough to just break off pieces of this food, but if you wanted you could always do that. i don't think it would be enough though.
i can't spell it properly enough to search for it, but there is something called popone (itallian) that uses similar recipes for feeding SPS tanks, and they reuse the little trays that mysid comes in.

 

[renogaw]

Originally Posted by nietzsche
they do but it either has some type of seasoning or it's cooked or its just not what im looking for
i found a couple of other places that sell seafood only so im going to try that

weird... i guess it pays to live near the atlantic

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by renogaw
weird... i guess it pays to live near the atlantic
I'll second that. seafood sellers are a dima a dozen up here, plus I know enough lobsterman to get pretty much anything that could ever get into a lobstertrap. you'd be amazed at what you find in lobstertraps.

 

[coral keeper]

Here is another good thread on home fish food.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/280472/home-made-fish-food

 

[hefner413]

Originally Posted by nietzsche
like the egg crate you mean?
yeah, egg crate...