Store bought vs. homemade food

[CanuckReefer]

My own frozen mix... rope grown mussels, wild caught scallops and shrimp, whatever wild caught white fish is on sale, nori sheets and dulse, a bit of RODI... pulse several times then blend quite a bit. Paste it into piece of plastic egg crate (the kind you would see in a false ceiling air return cutout) on a platter and freeze. Give it a few whacks and it comes out (usually) in perfect small cubes. I feed Omega Reef formula or frozen mysis rarely if I'm out of my own stuff. Dose live phyto as well...

 

[Nick Steele]

Right now I only feed frozen straight from the LFS but that’s because I have a 20G with 3 fish and a sheet of rods, pack of mysis, and pack of spirulina brine shrimp have lasted me almost a year.

Now when I upgrade and have 30+ fish in a 300g+ tank I will be making my own food from the store like I do at work. Might cost $200-300 but it will last at least 6 months or more.

 

[Arabyps]

I make my own "private reserve" frozen food. My process is to take a bag of mixed seafood from Costco (or similar) and process it in a blender and place in a large bowl. To this I add a flat pack of krill, brine shrimp and blood worms. Next I add sheets of crumbled nori, spirulina, vitachem, garlic, reef roids, and coral amino. I blend the mixture together by hand (with gloves on) and evenly spread into ice cube trays (link below) for individual servings. The fish go nuts for this stuff and it has the added benefit of feeding corals.