Suspending Your food in Gelatine/liquid

[Andy]

Mr Fugu

Is any food that you sell that will be accepted by zooplankton feeders(looking here at ZM200) able to be kept in a solid/liquid suspension without risk of nutritional degredation/food decomposotion.

By solid, something with a Gelatin base(looking at agar).

For liquid I am clueless really about what I can use.

Cheers

Andy

[FUGU]

Hi Andy - an interesting question. Does this relate to delayed food release from a feeder?

I would say both ZM-100 and ZM-200 feeds will be stable within a gelatin mix as their exposure to air and water is limited. I would not want to suspend either food in a drip dispenser for more than an hour to avoid excessive leaching of nutrients, particle breakdown, bacterial buildup, and subsequent water pollution.

Recent public aquaria feedback has been that ZM-100 has been used as a suspension feed for sea apples and the ZM-200 being fed to corals in place of newly hatched artemia/zooplankton mixes.

What are you planning?

Cheers

FUGU

[Andy]

yes mate got it in one.

sure an autofeeder will feed powder but it will probably sit on the surface and not penatrating the top layer, I could aim a powerhead at a slight angle but it wouldnt necesarrily work and could disrupt the wave I have.

If I could feed via a syringe driver into the water column that might work.

im thinking of using agar as that is an seaweed derivative.

just an idea i am toying with at the moment.....

[FUGU]

Hi Andy - the ZM-200 is sufficiently big to break through the water surface. If there is surface water movement the ZM-100 will eventually go through the water surface. In the past the ZM-100 has been mixed with a small amount of water to form small pellets that can be dropped down to bottom feeding fry. I see no reason why an agar/gelatin mix can be used to do the same and tried out in an auto feeder; you'll just need to chk the mechanics and be sure the pellets easily flow out. It may be worth investigating whether a suitable and safe anti-mould additive and be used in the mix as no doubt the feeders will become quite humid and affect shelf life.....? Let me know how you get on.

Cheers

FUGU