frozen food w/o binder

[beemert]

is there a particular brand of frozen foods which do not contain the gelatin binder?
thanx
bruce

 

[danmhippo]

Try the "whole" foods, such as the Frozen mysis, krill, clam, squid, silverside....etc.

 

[Anonymous]

The San Francisco brand that my LSF carries does not have gel binders in it.

 

[Macimage1]

Ocean Nutrition has most of their foods available either with or without the gel binder. It is harder to find it without the binder and sometimes the LFS have to special order it. I haven't bought any for a few months, but it was available without it several months ago.

Joyce

 

[Anonymous]

Hikari normally doesn't have a gel binder.

SF Bay Brand usually doesn't either.

Of course the best frozen food on the market, Piscine Energetic's Mysis relicta doesn't have any binder either.

If your LFS doesn't carry it, encourage them to, it must be ordered directly from PE but Patsy is hands down the most efficient wholesaler in the business. Whenever I need more mysis I make a phone call that takes maybe 3 minutes and two days later the mysis arrive at the store Fedex still frozen in her excellent packaging. I wish all of my suppliers were so easy to work with.

 

[zip_case]

Yeah, the San Franicso doesn't have the gel binder it's all frozen.

 

[monkeyboy]

Ocean Nutrition has all it's frozen cube foods that have gel binder available in binderless flat packs.

 

[Marty M]

What's wrong with foods that have a binder?

 

[Anonymous]

Nothing is wrong with it, it's just the binder does just what it's supposed to do, bind the food into the packaged cube and it doesn't break up well. Best for using a feeding grid, however if you want even dispersal you have to pulverise the food when frozen or put it in a blender when thawed.

 

[FishHead1]

"Don't cycle a tank with little damsels; use groupers, triggers and morays." -- latest 'cutting-edge' wisdom endorsed by Marc Weiss Co

Not to change the subject, but I think you need to add all of his products three times a day for six weeks and your tank will be cycled. Coraline coverage at 100% and never have to worry about ich.

 

[beemert]

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Not to change the subject

what???

 

[beemert]

the reason i asked this question in the first place was that i thought i had read on this board that some reefers were under the impression that food using a gelatin binder contributed to high phosphates. i did a search and yes, these opinions were posted.
well, i have been fighting a macro algae outbreak and am trying to rule out conditions.
since the previous posts did not mention a brand of food, i thought i would ask.
thanks for all your help
bruce

 

[Anonymous]

ALL foods have high phosphates, brine shrimp are on the order of 15,000 PPM phosphate. Phosphate is a major part of life, you aren't going to find a food that is worth a tinker's toot that doesn't have high phosphate.