Home blended coral food, (used to be $5)

[SantaMonica]

However big the cup of oysters is, that is how big the cup of water is.

[Marksfish]

Finding it extremely difficult to get tinned oysters in the UK, only fresh which is an expensive way of doing it.

[SantaMonica]

Well just one big oyster is about a half cup, so that would make several cups of food, which would last a month for smaller tanks.

[felps]

Is this food supposed to look like snot floating in the tank :roll:

[SantaMonica]

Nope, just dust particles.

[SantaMonica]

New amounts:

4 onces raw oysters in water (about 2 big oysters)
16 onces water
1 teaspoon (not tablespoon) sodium alginate powder

...makes enough to fill the wine cooler.

[pyrocide]

i did a recent blend of foods that both my fresh and reef tanks go nuts over.

3x3" squid steak
1/4 lb of fresh raw scallap
1/4 lb of raw bay shrimp
good portion of spirulina
couple teaspoons of NLS small fish formula and large formula
10-12 cubes of brine, and PE mysis
cup of RO

Couple tablespoons of marine snow (for the reef tank packs)

Frozen in flat packs, soon as it hits the water, when defrosted, polyp extension is insane. I feed a small chunk, still frozen to my meatcoral, kyrpotnites, candy canes, and squirt some from a pipette or turkey baster directly in the center of my frogspawn, and hammer corals. Fish love it, corals are growing phenomenally, all around a great source of food.

[SantaMonica]

New amounts:

4 onces raw oysters in water (about 2 big oysters)
20 onces water
1 teaspoon (not tablespoon) sodium alginate powder

...makes more than enough to fill the wine cooler, and if you blend it for 3 or 4 minutes it will stay thin and not clog the feeder.

[simon wright]

did this recipe myself last week , very good stuff , fish and corals love it . went a bit mad with it like ended up with around 2 ltrs of it :shock: ,
used fresh oysters of a supermarket fish deli , only 60p each .
must say great recipe . would like to pass this on in another forum if i may , will link it straight to this site .

[SantaMonica]

New amounts:

4 ounces raw oysters or mussels, water drained (about 2 big oysters)
20 ounces water
1/2 teaspoon (not tablespoon) sodium alginate powder
20 cubes of rotifers