what frozen food you like the besT?

[Hans]

just wondering!

[OrionGirl]

Depends on what I'm feeding. I use Emerald Entree in most of my tanks--it's a mixture of brine and mysis shrimp, and has spirulina as well. I also feed frozen blood worms to supplement protien for some fish, and Jack Watley's community formula--also a mixture.

[Grassguy]

Bloodworms are a little tasteless to me. Give me some tater-tots and salt and I can make a meal out of em.:D

Brine shrimp and mysis shrimp are just to darn small :joke:

[TwoTankAmin]

Blood worms, mysis and brine are rotated and/or mixed and served about every 3 days in almost all tanks. I also preslice and then feeze zuchini which I nuke before feeding- does that count as frozen? :rolleyes:

[Dangerdoll]

my own personal choice if I had to choose from this list would be tater tots, everything else is just too fishy....I guess aside from the worms.....

BUT for the finned folks, I usually use Blood worms or brine shrimp but I also haven't tried the others on the list....so I have no experience with them.... but the mysis shrimp vote do have me wondering if I should give it a shot....

[mogurnda]

What, no ice cream?

The fish (FW and SW) get a rotation of brine shrimp, bloodworms, mysis shrimp and various marine blends. Except the SW fish don't get bloodworms, they hates them :sick:

[OrionGirl]

Really? Interesting. Our dragonetts adore blood worms, and the damsel will go after them as well.

[mogurnda]

The clowns, who will even nibble on my fingers, look at them as if they were plastic.

[crimsoncloud]

Just woderin'
Do fish get "brainfreeze" as us humans do?....cuz I was thinking of rotating a diet of frozen foods in with there normal diet..My Redtail cat used to devour a chunk of frozen bloodworms, and seemed to love it...but I wondered if it would be safe for my rainbowfishes

Melatoenea..not Blueeyes

[NJ Devils Fan]

Well, its better to defrost them before feeding because it takes the fish a lot longer to digest something very cold than something "tank" temperature.

I feed hikari bloodworms, brine shrimp, and squid. I used to have tubifex worms also, but i didn't like the way the fish reacted when I fed them the worms. They didn't like them much, they didn't attack them the way they did with the bloodworms. In the tubifex worms place I now feed squid. They like the squid more than the tubifex, but still, I don't think they like them all that much. I will next try mysis shrimp in the third spot of the rotation to see how they like it.

[Hans]

the mysis shrimp rule, they are beffyer then stupid lil brine shrimp, yet can still fit in a lil tetras mouth

[Rhys]

I love feeding my fish brine shrimp and with my powerful filter it shoots it down one end of the tank and then with the power coming back it goes round in circles till it is totally gone.

[tammy911]

The other night I gave my fish a whole raw shrimp that I had shredded into smaller pieces. They loved it! They picked on it all day. I have cardinals, balas, rainbows, harlequins, rummy noses and a pearl gourami. Is this something I could do on a regular basis?

[TKOS]

Occasionaly right before I clean my tanks I give them a big explosion of frozen brine shrimp. Lots of it. the fish go mad eating it. Even my peppered cory goes swimming in the water column eating away.

Then after an hour I do a big water change and follow this with a fasting day. Not too much for the poor fishies.

I also occasionaly put a little piece of my frozen salmon on some thread and dangle it in my betta tank. He likes to flare at it for awhile then go picking at it. Funny to watch.

But generally it is flakes and pellets in the tanks.

[ewok]

*i* like tater-tots, but you should probably add some things like hot pockets and pizza to the list just for variety. ;)

for the fish, i have the little san fran bay buttons...... bloodworms seem to be best all around. brine shrimp a close second, but they don't seem to have much mass. i also have beefheart for the cats and oscar.

the little cloud of brine shrimp when the button melts.... in a tank of fry........ it's something to watch. :D

edit: i forgot the stouffers frozen lasagna..... for "fake" it's pretty darn good!

[Must4ng s4lly]

Brine shrimp and bloodworms are my fav frozen snack for my three tanks!

[Dangerdoll]

Originally posted by ewok

edit: i forgot the stouffers frozen lasagna..... for "fake" it's pretty darn good!

gush! you're not kidding!! The best in a pinch!!

[shewlett]

I put some tank water in a small plastic up and then use a popsicle stick to dig out a few frozen brine shrimp from the package and put them in the cup and twirl the water around. Fifteen minutes later the shrimp are up to temperature and I twirl them around again just prior to dumping them in the tank so that none of them stick in the cup.