Flying Fish & Urchin Roe? Pooled Order
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Joe, I may have you covered. The supplier is going to do something special for us and we may get a 1/2 price deal on the urchin roe. I'll know tomorrow after their daily processing.
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I can't put enough FF eggs in the water fast enough to satisfy my fish. My large turbinaria swallows one whole egg in each of it's 300 polyps. Pretty amazing to watch.
The liver-like thing
is the urchin roe. I bought it for Borneman's infamous coral recipe. My large wrasse is the only fish that relishes it.
The liver-like thing
is the urchin roe. I bought it for Borneman's infamous coral recipe. My large wrasse is the only fish that relishes it.
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I finally starting serving up a Borneman-esque recipe with the new sea urchin roe. WOW! Corals are really reaching for it and I swear I have an increase in florescent green color in a few corals. My ORA Stag is so happy, it looks more like a millepora. I used raw tiger shrimp, mussels, Thai lobster tails, cyclop-eeze, nori, red algae, dried ESV phyto. I left out flake and pellet food this time.
Maybe this belongs in the DIY forum, but FYIW, my new process is to freeze the food flat in a 1 gallon zip lock bag and then cut it in 1" squares with my chef's knife the next day. It makes fish food cubes without ice trays. I put 1 or 2 cubes in a blender with 8 oz salt water and blend well before serving. Yum.
Maybe this belongs in the DIY forum, but FYIW, my new process is to freeze the food flat in a 1 gallon zip lock bag and then cut it in 1" squares with my chef's knife the next day. It makes fish food cubes without ice trays. I put 1 or 2 cubes in a blender with 8 oz salt water and blend well before serving. Yum.
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This was a very easy group buy and the stuff goes fast. Let's do it again in a month. I'm willing to put a stake in the ground now and say we buy again for the June meeting.
Last time we got 9 lbs. of urchin roe at a steal of a price and 1 kg of Capelin roe (1/4 the egg size of true Tobikko) I think 8 people participated and it was $15 per person including shipping. It's shipped overnight so we can do it a few days before the meeting.
We already have:
Moe
Seasno
I think Scavdog wanted some
Sounds like Flighty's anthias will join at least for tobikko
and I'm in again, naturally
We're 1/2 way to 8 people
Pile on if you're interested - you really cannot buy sea urchin roe locally affordably -- at least I can't find it.
Last time we got 9 lbs. of urchin roe at a steal of a price and 1 kg of Capelin roe (1/4 the egg size of true Tobikko) I think 8 people participated and it was $15 per person including shipping. It's shipped overnight so we can do it a few days before the meeting.
We already have:
Moe
Seasno
I think Scavdog wanted some
Sounds like Flighty's anthias will join at least for tobikko
and I'm in again, naturally
We're 1/2 way to 8 people
Pile on if you're interested - you really cannot buy sea urchin roe locally affordably -- at least I can't find it.
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This is still a go. We can tally up before the next meeting. Depending on interest in urchin roe, we will either buy this from the west cost or we can get wholesale pricing locally for tobiko/capelin roe. My corals are really appreciating the urchin row blended into a Borneman coral recipe.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176530
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176530
I just made some coral goo using the urchin roe, phytoplan and cyclopeeze. I don't know if I used too much roe, but it REALLY clouded up my water. Does this happen to everyone else? How much of the urchin does everyone use? I didn't follow any recipe, I just blended a bunch of the 3 ingredients together. I know the phytoplan clouds up the water too, but I'm wondering if it's the phyto or the urchin that's making it this cloudy. I know the water will clear, I'm just wondering if it clouds everyone's water this much.
TIA -
Daire
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