I can see how it would not be 'budget' for you, being in Peace River, but here about an hour outside Toronto its one of the few things that are budget, especially if you make your own. Live mussels are 4.99 a bag, wild caught shrimp, fish and Dulse /Nori are all also very reasonably priced imo...how are things out there anyway lately? Weather finally looking good here, Covid issues not so much...
Well, at least the snow's finally melted here.
Do 100% live food for the least waste. Pellets are more nutrient dense and easier to feed and frozen isn’t as nutrient dense. Feed diy frozen, the commercial made kind is bad imo they loose half the nutrients in production. Shrimp clams and scallops and other things are better food than pellet or frozen
IMO when you do it yourself frozen with wild caught species and ocean greens it is far superior to pellets and purchased frozen. I see the ingredients listed on all the frozen and pellet mass produced stuff, but where is it sourced? Farmed? Jammed up with antibiotics? Could very well be. I wouldn't put that junk in my own body, and it (largely) doesn't go in my tank either... Somebody is in it for profit right? If somebody knows of one with all wild caught or sustainably responsibly farmed ingredients I am all ears....
I can definitely empathize with that trip....but then again you are in 'God's Country' so only so much lol.Well, at least the snow's finally melted here.
Being able to make a (relatively) quick trip to a store to pick up frozen (or live) foods certainly does make a difference. I usually blow a hundred bucks on gas and other incidentals to pick up fifty dollars' worth of food.
Why do people rinse frozen food? What is the point? But yes, people feed pellets/flakes because it’s easy and convenient and they have good (but not great) nutrition.
What kind of live worms do you feed? I had a culture of white worms that I kept for years, but I gave it away when I went tankless for a couple years, and now I can’t find anyone locally that has a culture to buy some. What other worms are easy to cultivate?Convenience.
All foods have phosphate, it is a building block.
If you want to do the best for your fish then live foods like live worms, fresh frozen clam (the kind you would buy live to eat), quality frozen like LRS, and dried (not roasted) nori. You can add some selcon or fish oil too.
I completely disagree pellets are better then what I just listed.
Dry is a packaged processed food and not fresh food. What do we eat to be healthy? Fresh food not processed foods. The key is to pick the correct frozen foods as not all are equal.
Just look at the health of Paul B's fish
I feed about 8-10 cubes of frozen a day. I only feed PE my sis (or Hikari Canadian mysis) and LRS. That gets stupid expensive. Or I could feed TDO and NLS pellets which have more nutrition.
You gotta remember, with frozen food you're paying for mostly water. I lost the label on my PE mysis but if I remember correctly it's like 90%+ water.
I buy live black worms at the LFS and I also have a culture of white worms. I bought the starter culture on eBay.
I noticed my fish’s color really started to pop after feeding a balanced diet, frozen, pellets, and seaweed predominantly. However, I think fish color is also tied into overall fish health, which is also tied to their diet. Pellets are nice because they’re packed with nutrients and I feed pellets a few times a week and I feed slowly so there’s no uneaten pellets but if there is any, my cleaner shrimps make quick work of it.
