Do you feed frozen foods to your fish?

I'm mostly talking about the frozen fish food cube packs. They come in all different food types nowadays. Mysis, bloodworms, spirulina, krill, etc.

My fish get 1 cube a day of the marine angelfish/butterfly fish food along with the new NLS pro-biotic food.

 

I alternate between frozen brine and bloodworms (regular and jumbo). Sometimes once a week, sometimes twice or more. My 53g gets a whole cube and the 6 gallon gets a little pinch of them.

 

I feed mysis, brine, baby brine, daphnia, beef heart, turkey heart, and krill. As well as some live and prepared foods! Variety is key in fish nutrition!

 

Daily the fish get frozen brine. Also supplement with bug bites and flakes with the brine shrimp.

 

I feed the fish & Axolotl frozen food....fish get it twice a week and Axolotl has it daily or every other day

 

I feed frozen red mosquito larvae once a week 1/4 cube. Otherwise live food and dry food.

 

Alternate daily between granules and a variety of frozen. Wtaer change day is freeze dried tubifex - McDonalds for fish!

 

I currently don’t have any frozen food,bout certainly not against it. Is there any risk of introducing parasites through frozen food?

 

I currently don’t have any frozen food,bout certainly not against it. Is there any risk of introducing parasites through frozen food?

Depending on your source less to equal chance as with live foods.

 

Depending on your source less to equal chance as with live foods.

Ok, that’s what I thought. Thanks

 

Ok, that’s what I thought. Thanks

I should clarify: It depends on the parasite. Monocellular bacterial and fungal parasites can survive being frozen and multiply if at any point the cooling chain is broken. Multicellular parasites should usually not survive being frozen.

 

I feed all my tanks frozen Bloodworms, daphnia, supreme carnivore, mysis shrimp and brine shrimp every couple days. All Omega One brand!

 

I’ve fed frozen (& live) foods for many years & never had an issue, I do stick to trusted suppliers though

 

I do stick to trusted suppliers though

And that's what's important.

 

And that's what's important.

For sure, I think that’s the key. I’m assuming any of the major (higher end) manufacturers should be fine. Thanks for the help everyone

 

No, I can’t find any

 

I get mine from here...same place that I get my fish

Tropical Fish Food - Aquatics To Your Door

Scroll to the bottom for the choices of frozen....they do tropical and marine by BCUK...no issues at all with the food

 

Luckily we have 3 fish stores within five minutes from us where we get TMC 'Gamma' brand blister-pack frozen foods produced by The Tropical Marine Centre:
Frozen Food
It's gamma-ray irradiated so guaranteed pathogen-free It's a UK & Europe based company but looks like it exports some lines to the States too:

 

2-3 times a week my 4 tanks get frozen. I switch up what they get between the 3 types I feed

 

That's a double edged question, lol. Do you feed your fish food that has been frozen, or do you feed the food while still frozen? I do both.

Usually I just plop the frozen cube in the output of my HOB and let it disperse as chaos dictates, but sometimes I thaw it first and put it into the still(er) side of their tank,

I only feed frozen the day before I'm going to do a WC and vacuum so the uneaten food doesn't have time to rot, as I don't have enough fish to eat a whole cube, and cutting it into smaller pieces is just a pain.

 

does frozen tilapia count? if so, then yes I do. I also feed frozen peas to oscar

 

Yes I feed frozen bloodworms, brime shrimp and beef heart. But only once a week and I defrost it in tank water first.

 

Making an effort to feed a lot more, mostly Daphnia. I've gone from feeding once in a blue moon to 3-5 times a week.

 

All enjoy a rotation of Mysis, bloodworms, brine shrimp, and krill 2-3 times per week. They never send it back.

 

My puffers get frozen as the staple of their diet. Frozen mysis shrimp are what they get the most of. I also mix some brine shrimp in there once a week. My pea puffers only eat frozen while my spotted congo puffer gets a couple snails a day in addition to her frozen food. She's big and has teeth that grow, so I mix the snails in there.

All my other fish get dried food about 75% of the time and then get frozen every couple days. Bug Bites, NLS pellets, and a spirulina based flake is the dry food that get. I'm looking for another algae/veggie based flake/pellet. I'm currently using Spirulina 20 until I'm out, but want one with less meal products. Can anyone suggest a product?

 

1 frozen cube every other day or so for 12 Tiger Barbs. Bloodworms and brine shrimp.
They destroy the frozen cube in less than 30 seconds. They love it and know when I am ready to drop a cube in.

 

Nope. Frozen food is 60 miles away. That translates to 120 mile round trip, a cooler,, 2 1/2 hours, plus $10 of gasoline. Nope. Fiscally irresponsible.

 

I answered yes but to be honest I only feed them frozen bloodworms once a week; and probably when I finish the next pact I'll stop. The loaches love them of course but the angels are always a bit confused and unsure if they should eat them or not. While they are deciding the tetra tend to zoom in and snatch them. I might try freeze dried tubix (or is it tubex) next. My angels are weird eaters - not very aggressive like the rams and kind of finicky. To be honest I think they prefer flakes or shrimp pellets but I rather not feed either as they tend to make a mess.
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Now the rams - I could put just about anything in - they are really easy to please. The loaches - they love their pellets - as I mentioned the frozen blood worms also get them excited and a couple of them will come to the surface to eat flakes. I think when I finish the flakes I'll try to stop feed them because they tend to make a mess but not sure what else I can get the angels to eat - hopefully not the tetra.

 

Nope. Frozen food is 60 miles away. That translates to 120 mile round trip, a cooler,, 2 1/2 hours, plus $10 of gasoline. Nope. Fiscally irresponsible.

Have you tried to order online?

 

For those that have asked how to make frozen food that's very healthy for your fish.


1st you need a food processor ( don't use your Wife's or your Moms, or else you will have to buy them a new one ) I found out the hard way.

Ingredients:
1-lb beef liver
3-cups jumbo shrimp
1/2-lb cod
8 cubes frozen blood worms
1/2 cup of spinach
6-algae wafers
1/2 cup preferred fish flakes
2-eggs
1-clove of garlic
5ml of Vitamin C
1/4 tsp Metroplex
5ml Vita Chem
1- cup of hot water
Mix everything in the processor and then put in minI ice cube trays and freeze.
Fish go crazy over this. Enjoy

 

Have you tried to order online?

No. Online is hundreds of miles away and will take at least 24 to 8 hours to arrive.