save $ make your own food

[fishit]

hey guys i just thought id let you know i just mage my own frozen food and everything loves it cost me about 30$ for 2 large bags.. this beets the hell out of 11$ for 1 small pack all i did was go to the Chinese market got all kinds of fresh sea food  clams mussels shrimp crab oysters sqwid octopus algae added some Missie shrimp and garlick o and plankton blended it up washed all in ro then froze it and the fish and corals love it try it out

 

[Cal_stir]

I've started culturing rotifers and I'm setting up a phytoplankton culture station, very inexpensive source of live foods

 

[pulpfiction1]

both great ways to save and better for the fish as well im sure

 

[crazybizzle]

only prob with that i see is because its so high in nutrients probaly will have a algae bloom but thats my opinion anyone else? know if that could be true or not.

 

[Cal_stir]

again i have to say, "the only thing that happens fast in this hobby is a crash", if you start adding a higher nutrient food source to your system, start slowly and allow your system to adjust and you shouldn't have any problem, unless of course, your system just doesn't have the capacity to process the nutrient.eg. not enough live rock, too small a skimmer, no way to remove nitrates.
live foods are just that, alive, eating nutrients, until eaten, they are not dead, rotting nutrients reaking havok on your system, and personally, we have 18 fish, lots of corals in a 90 gal tank and we feed them lots, but thanks to our sulphur denitrator, our nitrates are 1ppm, and i suspect undetectable in the near future.
it is better said this way, "you don't have a nutrient problem, you have a nutrient export problem"

 

[Dr BlueThumb]

Live copepod's and phyto imo if bought localy could be something I would love to buy.

unfortunately people want $30 for a few thousand copepods in which if bought frozen would cost pennies

 

[Cal_stir]

i cultured copepods in the past, they are fairly easy but you need a constant source of phyto, and the phyto was too expensive, and hard to get, so i quit the culture.
i've decided to culture rotifers mainly because they are planktonic (free swimming) as a coral food, and i'm going to culture my own phyto to feed them, and i may start the copepods again if all goes well.

 

[teebone110]

again i have to say, \"the only thing that happens fast in this hobby is a crash\", if you start adding a higher nutrient food source to your system, start slowly and allow your system to adjust and you shouldn't have any problem, unless of course, your system just doesn't have the capacity to process the nutrient.eg. not enough live rock, too small a skimmer, no way to remove nitrates.
live foods are just that, alive, eating nutrients, until eaten, they are not dead, rotting nutrients reaking havok on your system, and personally, we have 18 fish, lots of corals in a 90 gal tank and we feed them lots, but thanks to our sulphur denitrator, our nitrates are 1ppm, and i suspect undetectable in the near future.
it is better said this way, \"you don't have a nutrient problem, you have a nutrient export problem\"

"you don't have a nutrient problem, you have a nutrient export problem"

Well said ;D