DIY food

[goody]

I'm looking at making my own food and I've read of some recipes online just wanted to check in with some locals. If you do make your own food, what do you put in and what's the best place to get the items. I have a mixed reef and fish include: foxface, 2 clowns, leopard wrasse, mandarin dragonette, and CBB. All already eat frozen mysis and brine. Also frozen bloodworms minus the CBB but has shown some interest.

 

[grizzwald39]

salmon from costco, and the shrim they have goes on sale alot so grab one of those bags when it does. For everything else H mart and Ranch 99 should have whatever you want to add into yours. Just make sure its not previously cooked. I used to put a lot of stuff in mine but over time have really simplified it to mainly shrimp, salmon, nori, some type of coral food and then add in some other grab bag stuff on sale at ranch 99 or H mart. Normally mussels, scallops, squid.

Things i have learned
- use a food processor not a blender, blender will turn it into powder.
-do not over chop it, very easy to do.
-start with small batches
- soak stuff in rodi for about 1-2 hours before chopping this will greatly reduce phosphates.
-peel the shrimp

 

[goody]

salmon from costco, and the shrim they have goes on sale alot so grab one of those bags when it does. For everything else H mart and Ranch 99 should have whatever you want to add into yours. Just make sure its not previously cooked. I used to put a lot of stuff in mine but over time have really simplified it to mainly shrimp, salmon, nori, some type of coral food and then add in some other grab bag stuff on sale at ranch 99 or H mart. Normally mussels, scallops, squid.

Things i have learned
- use a food processor not a blender, blender will turn it into powder.
-do not over chop it, very easy to do.
-start with small batches
- soak stuff in rodi for about 1-2 hours before chopping this will greatly reduce phosphates.
-peel the shrimp

This might be a dumb question but are you buying fresh or frozen? And do you also get the nori from the market or fish store?

 

[grizzwald39]

For the salmon i just buy the fresh at Costco but frozen works fine. Everything else normally frozen as its cheaper but it shouldn't matter a ton. Nori you can buy bulk bags of it from amazon for cheap but any place works. if you buy from amazon you want unroasted i cant find the big pack i bought but has lasted quite awhile. i may have bought from saltwater cant remember.

 

[dank69chevy]

For the salmon i just buy the fresh at Costco but frozen works fine. Everything else normally frozen as its cheaper but it shouldn't matter a ton. Nori you can buy bulk bags of it from amazon for cheap but any place works. if you buy from amazon you want unroasted i cant find the big pack i bought but has lasted quite awhile. i may have bought from saltwater cant remember.

FWIW 99.9% of your "fresh" seafood is frozen when it arrives at the store. You are paying for the privilage of the store thawing it for you. The catch is flash frozen and packed in ice on the boat to keep it from spoiling. Yes this includes "fresh" salmon. The only difference is they may not add pink food coloring to the "fresh" salmon.

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[grizzwald39]

FWIW 99.9% of your "fresh" seafood is frozen when it arrives at the store. You are paying for the privilage of the store thawing it for you. The catch is flash frozen and packed in ice on the boat to keep it from spoiling. Yes this includes "fresh" salmon. The only difference is they may not add pink food coloring to the "fresh" salmon.

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100 percent. To this though, fish being stored in most commercial vessels at least real ones is stored in an rsw sytem. which is very different than your normal freezer storage. RSW uses salt water to keep stuff "frozen" and holds the integrity of the meat much better. but to what dank is saying buy what is cheap because in the end its all better quality than most stuff in our fish food. I like the salmon from costco because i buy it am able to cut into one batch portions while thawed.