ok i'm making food need help!

fishkid6692 · 03/07/2008, 04:01 PM

i went to the store today and got clams, shrimp, squid, mysid shrimp, krill, and silversides. which of these should i blend together? and my blender has 5 diff. settings: chop, mix, grate, blend, and liquefy. what should i set it to when i mix the foods? please help! i am feeding my black and white ocellaris clowns.

sufunk · 03/07/2008, 04:08 PM

I do pretty much the same mix minus the silversides and just mix them all together. for my corals, i blend it REALLY fine, almost liquefied. For the fish, i blend it enough so there arent any chunks bigger than say a bb. I also throw in a few ounces of selcon and zoecon, a little garlic and usually some frozen cyclopeeze.

I have a variety of fish so even though some of them wont eat each type of seafood, between all the fish it all gets eaten. You may wanna try feeding the clowns a little of each type of food to maike sure they will eat it all before mixing it all together. If they dont like any one part, just cut that out of the mix.

papagimp · 03/07/2008, 04:22 PM

good advise sufunk

fishkid6692 · 03/07/2008, 04:32 PM

yea i just gave them a tiny piece of everything and they only like the mysids and shrimp. can i throw in some pellet food in the blender? it has a lot of nutrients.

Myrddraal · 03/07/2008, 05:18 PM

One method I've read that makes a lot of sense is to split your batch into thirds before blending. Blend the first third to a coarse size, about what you want for your largest animals. Add the second third, and blend to the same size. This will reduce the size first third. Add the remainder, and do the same. That should give you three different sizes of food.

sufunk · 03/07/2008, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by fishkid6692
yea i just gave them a tiny piece of everything and they only like the mysids and shrimp. can i throw in some pellet food in the blender? it has a lot of nutrients.

Yes, you can blend in some pellets. I've done that before as well.

They may not like everything at first but adding some garlic and some selcon/zoecon may help them eat. Also, when it's mixed, the tastes blend a little and they will usually eat things that they might not have eaten otherwise. But, each one of my fish has at lest 1-2 from your list that they just wont eat no matter what.

sufunk · 03/07/2008, 06:49 PM

Forgot to say that you should also cut up the seafood before it is blended. That food has a tendency ime to tear into thin strips that the fish dont like if you dont chop it up 1st.

03/07/2008, 04:01 PM	#1
fishkid6692 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: danbury, CT Posts: 3,193	ok i'm making food need help! i went to the store today and got clams, shrimp, squid, mysid shrimp, krill, and silversides. which of these should i blend together? and my blender has 5 diff. settings: chop, mix, grate, blend, and liquefy. what should i set it to when i mix the foods? please help! i am feeding my black and white ocellaris clowns.

03/07/2008, 04:08 PM	#2
sufunk Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Davie, Florida Posts: 2,004	I do pretty much the same mix minus the silversides and just mix them all together. for my corals, i blend it REALLY fine, almost liquefied. For the fish, i blend it enough so there arent any chunks bigger than say a bb. I also throw in a few ounces of selcon and zoecon, a little garlic and usually some frozen cyclopeeze. I have a variety of fish so even though some of them wont eat each type of seafood, between all the fish it all gets eaten. You may wanna try feeding the clowns a little of each type of food to maike sure they will eat it all before mixing it all together. If they dont like any one part, just cut that out of the mix. __________________ Florida President of J.S.S.J (Jessica Simpson is a Shemale Jinx!!!) Current Tank Info: 36g reef and 180g reef, 3x250w Phoenix 14k MH's and 8x39w T-5's, 2 Tunze 6100's with 7095 controller, 2 Koralia 3's, ASM-G3 skimmer, mag-12 return, eco systems sump/fuge

03/07/2008, 04:22 PM	#3
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	good advise sufunk __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

03/07/2008, 05:18 PM	#5
Myrddraal Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 431	One method I've read that makes a lot of sense is to split your batch into thirds before blending. Blend the first third to a coarse size, about what you want for your largest animals. Add the second third, and blend to the same size. This will reduce the size first third. Add the remainder, and do the same. That should give you three different sizes of food. __________________ ~Jayson

03/07/2008, 06:49 PM	#7
sufunk Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Davie, Florida Posts: 2,004	Forgot to say that you should also cut up the seafood before it is blended. That food has a tendency ime to tear into thin strips that the fish dont like if you dont chop it up 1st. __________________ Florida President of J.S.S.J (Jessica Simpson is a Shemale Jinx!!!) Current Tank Info: 36g reef and 180g reef, 3x250w Phoenix 14k MH's and 8x39w T-5's, 2 Tunze 6100's with 7095 controller, 2 Koralia 3's, ASM-G3 skimmer, mag-12 return, eco systems sump/fuge

03/07/2008, 04:32 PM	#4
fishkid6692 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: danbury, CT Posts: 3,193	yea i just gave them a tiny piece of everything and they only like the mysids and shrimp. can i throw in some pellet food in the blender? it has a lot of nutrients.