DIY - Make your own fish food

Marc,

My food is in the identical bag as yours and the mussels are not in shells,
so I'm confused a bit on that one.

Anyway, I just defrost them along with the rest of the food in some water
for a few minutes, get under my umbrella, and throw it in to the tank
whole. I've got some pretty big fish, especially my puffers (if you'd like
to see them and my site I can e-mail you the info) and they attack
everything in that mix fiercely, swallowing most of it whole. As a matter
of fact when they're done, they're bellies look a bit uneven for a while
from all the different shapes of food!

Still curious on that shell question though...



"Marc Levenson" wrote in message
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Rick,

Thanks for checking up on that. Since the mussels are in shells, are you
chopping them up - shell and all - in a processor and feeding that to your
tank
as well?

Blanched... I can live with that.

Marc


RickS wrote:

Marc,

for the heck of it, I e-mailed Pacific Giant about the food. I
received a
prompt reply from their Vice President and he was kind enough to give me
his
direct # to discuss the issue.

Here's the deal:

ALL of the food in that bag is cooked. They refer to it as blanched.
The
blanching is basically a boiling of the food for several seconds. This
makes it look more presentable to the average customer. Fully raw, it
would
look rather unappealing. The mussels however, are boiled longer so that
they are guaranteed to be completely cooked. This is done for potential
health reasons.

He was not surprised by my use for the food since a buyer from one of
his
largest retailers fed his own fish with it saying, "If it's good enough
for
my fish, it's good enough for my customers!"

And, he assured me as well that as the package states, there are
absolutely
zero preservatives of any kind used on the product.

Good thing is that there are not to many mussels in the bag anyway,
since
you go "mussel-less".

- Rick


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