feeding question
 

jthread wrote:

i don't think they carry live sand
but i'll ask.

If you have live rock, the sand will become live in a few months.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

feeding question
 

San Fransisco Bay brand has a nice assortment of
frozen foods in cubes that you punch out of the package.

Wayne Sallee



jthread wrote on 10/31/2007 7:38 PM:
I took over my wife's two reef/fish tanks because she lost a couple of grand
on coral.

Turned out it was the nitrates and I pretty much fixed that problem by
cutting way down on feeding and removing the bio balls. Now I'm changing a
lot less but I'd like for the changes to get down as low as possible.

Aqua1 & 2 has about 9 fish and assorted coral. I took large pictures so you
can basically see what's going on. Aqua2 has a shrimp and an anemone that
are, of course, are hidden.

http://www.safaricabs.com/aqua1.jpg (45 gal)

http://www.safaricabs.com/aqua2.jpg (29 gal)

My question is. How would you guys feed these tanks? I'm running out of the
food that we started with.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Please ask any questions you need to ask.

Thanks

Jim
Austin TX

feeding question
 

Wayne Sallee wrote:
San Fransisco Bay brand has a nice assortment of frozen foods in cubes
that you punch out of the package.

If you can find the Omega One brand, they seem to have less water and more
product in their cubes. That's my observation and the opinion of the guys at my
LFS (which sells both brands).

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

feeding question
 

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:GDQWi.353$m44.29@trnddc06...
Wayne Sallee wrote:
San Fransisco Bay brand has a nice assortment of frozen foods in cubes
that you punch out of the package.

If you can find the Omega One brand, they seem to have less water and more
product in their cubes. That's my observation and the opinion of the guys at my
LFS (which sells both brands).

And why would it be better?
SanFranciscoBay brands are usually raw plankton frozen.
More natural form of food for fish than a concentrated mixture.

feeding question
 

Pszemol wrote:

And why would it be better?

I'm paying for 100 grams of stuff, let's say Mysis shrimp. If 20% of what's in
the cube is water, I'm getting 20 grams of water and 80 grams of shrimp. If 10%
of what's in the cube is water, I'm getting 10 grams more shrimp.

Now, is that actually the case? Well, having used both, I can say that there
certainly appears to be more water in a cube of the San Francisco Bay brand
product. The owner of the local LFS feels the same way. He sells both. I will
buy SFB if Omega One is sold out.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

feeding question
 

I sold a lot of the omega one flake food. It's one
of the best flake food manufactures on the marked.

I never tried their frozen foods.

Wayne Sallee



George Patterson wrote on 11/2/2007 10:01 PM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
San Fransisco Bay brand has a nice assortment of frozen foods in cubes
that you punch out of the package.

If you can find the Omega One brand, they seem to have less water and
more product in their cubes. That's my observation and the opinion of
the guys at my LFS (which sells both brands).

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

feeding question
 

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:MGRWi.165$Cb.30@trnddc08...
Pszemol wrote:

And why would it be better?

I'm paying for 100 grams of stuff, let's say Mysis shrimp. If 20% of what's in
the cube is water, I'm getting 20 grams of water and 80 grams of shrimp. If 10%
of what's in the cube is water, I'm getting 10 grams more shrimp.

Now, is that actually the case? Well, having used both, I can say that there
certainly appears to be more water in a cube of the San Francisco Bay brand
product. The owner of the local LFS feels the same way. He sells both. I will
buy SFB if Omega One is sold out.

I agree it is cheaper - no argument there... but is it really better?
I mean better not for your walet, but for the animals you feed?

What would you consider better food for yourself: highly concentrated
and highly processed food or maybe raw, unprocessed fresh & natural food ? :-)

feeding question
 

Pszemol wrote:

I agree it is cheaper - no argument there... but is it really better?

I never said Omega One was cheaper - it's the same price as SFB in this area.

I mean better not for your walet, but for the animals you feed?
What would you consider better food for yourself: highly concentrated
and highly processed food or maybe raw, unprocessed fresh & natural food

Did anything I wrote imply that the Omega One is more highly processed? I've
seen nothing to indicate that it is. As far as I can tell, they simply drain
more water out of the batch before packaging it. In any case, it's raw,
unprocessed (unless you want to argue that the packaging process is
"processing", in which case, all food is processed), natural food, but one can't
claim that any frozen food is "fresh."

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

feeding question
 

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:6saXi.1348$m44.97@trnddc06...
Pszemol wrote:

I agree it is cheaper - no argument there... but is it really better?

I never said Omega One was cheaper - it's the same price as SFB in this area.

If there is more water in the same priced unit than it make it more
expensive per amount of food you get in the package...

I mean better not for your walet, but for the animals you feed?
What would you consider better food for yourself: highly concentrated
and highly processed food or maybe raw, unprocessed fresh & natural food

Did anything I wrote imply that the Omega One is more highly processed? I've
seen nothing to indicate that it is. As far as I can tell, they simply drain
more water out of the batch before packaging it. In any case, it's raw,
unprocessed (unless you want to argue that the packaging process is
"processing", in which case, all food is processed), natural food, but one can't
claim that any frozen food is "fresh."

Compare list of ingredients between these two products.
Note chemical additions, preservatives, etc.

feeding question
 

Pszemol wrote:

Compare list of ingredients between these two products.
Note chemical additions, preservatives, etc.

I don't have an SFB package handy. The Omega One package reads "INGREDIENTS:
100% Whole Mysis Shrimp. No preservatives added."

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.