ocean krill or mysis ?

[cracker]

So what's your preference & why?
One better than the other?
Anything else You like more?
Is one more nutritious than the other?
I'm using the krill at the moment but fed mysis also. I add it to the fish food mix. mix some on the side for my corals etc. Thanks !

 

[mcarroll]

Krill has more/better pigments and fatty acids.

 

[Moonfruit777]

Good Question! I don't know which is better/healthier but I feed both. Alternating, one day I feed mysis + artemia and the next day it's krill +artemia. No food expert but it would be interesting to know the protein to mass ratio between krill and mysis

I feel some of the smaller fish have a hard time to take a bite out of a krill and are unable to eat whole krill + they seem to be eaten by the tangs before they can even try :/
Although some wrasses and my tiny yellow assessors eats whole krills! Incredible to be honest but they seem to really like them. Either way I think you can't go wrong feeding both

 

[Breadman03]

I don't know how krill and mysis compare, but PE brand mysis has a higher protein content than most (all?) other mysis I looked at. I'm a fan of variety, so I keep PE Mysis, LRS Reef Frenzy, nori, NLS pellets, and Reef Roids in the cabinet...or freezer as required.

 

[Ryan Kouns]

following along

 

[cracker]

I'm glad I checked back. my thinking was the ocean krill had nutrition from the sea. Just where the fish are. I did a "little" more reading & mcarroll was correct. The fatty acid stuff that the krill have are better suited for salt fish & corals than the mysis. My guess that the mysis could be fed these fatty's before harvest . Maybe that's what they do at PE .

 

[squampton]

As I understand it, PE Mysis have a higher fat content vs other brands because of the lake they come from and the food they eat. I do know they are harvested in the the warmest 6 months of the year and are caught, and taken to their floating processing facility in the lake, processed into bags and cubes and flash frozen all within a couple of hours.

I feed both mysis, krill and plankton along with pellets and rotate during the week, however the PE mysis are by far my fishes favorite, put in krill and mysis they will ignore the krill until all the mysis are gone.

 

[mcarroll]

put in krill and mysis they will ignore the krill until all the mysis are gone.

It's like asking them to prefer liver vs fried chicken. Yes, one if obviously better for him, but tastebuds rule...fish can be spoiled/picky eaters just like us.