Do u mush?

[whatcaneyedo]

I made two large batches several years ago but stopped because it was too much pollution. Blending/chopping the food up produced particle sizes that were too small for most of my fish to care about. The Tangs preferred to graze nori off of a clip over the course of a day and the CBB only wanted to eat Mysis and clam so the krill and seafood medley was largely passed over. The lion fish and eel I keep are also no good at finding food that is just dropped into the tank, they have to be hand fed with tongs. Perhaps if I had a tank larger than 120gal with many more smaller sized fish it would have worked. At the time I followed the advice of this article from 2008: Do-it-Yourself Frozen Food by Steven Pro http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-01/diy/index.php

I always thaw frozen foods before adding them to the tank. It isn't natural for most reef fish to feed from the water's surface and mine have never learnt to. Unless I shut off the return pump a block of frozen food would no doubt float on over to the overflow to the sump quite quickly.

[Masonjames]

I personally do not add any additives or extras. I just see it as extra junk. Raw whole foods only. But use what you like. I do like to add heavy on white fish meats as they are very rich and oily but others may want to reduce the amount of this. Shrimp are a good filler and binder but have a very high phospahte concentration in comparison to there nutritional value. Don't over do the shrimp. Can't get any fish to eat chucks of squid or octopus so I no longer add them. Basically you can just use what you can find at the time. Raw is always the best source but if your stuck with frozen you can always use that with no problems.

Good rule of thumb is to soak all raw foods in ice water mixed with a teaspoon of baking soda for an hour prior to proccessing. This will help remove the preservatives that are added which are extremely high in phospahtes. Rinse well and process. You want to proccess it so you have a good mix of food size to suit each mouth your needing to feeding.

I put into small sandwich sized ziplock bags and squish them flat to make a thin sheet. Freeze and feed. I don't rinse once it's been froze but a person can do so to remove some of the exrta juices if they like. I just break a piece off, thaw it in some tank water and dump it in.

It is a very rich food source however so the amount and frequency of feeding this food source will be differnt for everyone.