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I've been thinking about trying something like this to help make sure our CBB is eating. Anything special I should look for when buying them at the store?
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Step 1: Crack the frozen Mussel with a nut cracker
Step 2: Break off the largest piece(s) with a small knife, or just use your hands
Step 3: Using the tip of the small knife, scrape away and discard all the tiny shell fragments you don’t want mixing into your aquarium sand
Step 4: Use the same knife to cut off some larger feeding ‘scraps’ from the few larger broken pieces
Step 5: Feed the ‘scraps’ to the tank, along with dropping in the largest portion of the Mussel shell directly into the tank
Make sure the shell is closed tight. An open shell is a dead mussel.
I buy live clams from the grocery store occasionally. They are just sitting on ice when I buy them. Some go straight into the freezer and end up as fish food. A few I've put into a bowl of chilled tank water that I let warm up and then put them in the sump or refugium. Most have done fine.Is keeping a supply of live mussels in the sump or in a separate tank a practical idea?...
Beauty French! One of my favourites to see on the reef. Also glad to see I'm not the only one doing this lol... same technique as yourself. I buy 2 pounds fresh, twice a month, have my own feast and put a bunch in the freezer!
Updated photo… still growing, thanks to “mussel power!” Lol.
Not a thing wrong with freezing them. I buy a bag and put them in a tupperware and pop it in the freezer. I always use up the few that are not shut tight first. I also do the same with oysters and clams. I like it because my fish have enough to pick at for an hour or so. Every week or so I pull a pile of shells from the tank.Way back, i feed my chelmon with mussels, but u have steady supply of fresh ones, not frozen....
Sadly that supply line is gone now, ther arrive fresh (at least that is what they selling it), didnt want to buy, selling is only at kilograms, way too much even for daily feeding, always felt that there will something go wring if i freeze them....
Glad u share your experience, time to go and buy some.....
That's my method, thaw a bit, knife the shell open, and in it goes. I think OP might crack their shells first.So, you just open shell and put it whole in tank? Or?
Nice! Tried a Bicolour about 20 years ago lol....it perished after about 2 months. This would be my next Angel purchase since so much more is known now about their care/ feeding habits it seems. 5 fish in this 90 now....Yellow Tang, Ocellaris, Three Stripe Damsel all for 18 years, Coral Beauty, and Eibli Angel.... do I dare make this pygmy pair a harem in a 90? Oh its tempting , but all heck would break loose likely....temper the desires lol.