Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
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Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
Which is a no no, or did I dream that one up? I have tried everywhere, and cannot source uncooked seafood, apart from shell on tiger prawns, which I am already feeding. Ex husband is up in the next few weeks, and is going to bring some clams and mussels, but I can't give Pig this cooked stuff, can I?
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
Cooked seafood is not easily digested by fish, I'm afraid I have forgotten why so cannot elaborate I'm afraid
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
If you are in or near a large town, look for restaurant suppliers. I get most of my sea-food for both puffer and human from one.
THey have a wider range than most supermarkets and are frequently cheaper as well.
THey have a wider range than most supermarkets and are frequently cheaper as well.
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
I'm not, that's my problem; it's very rural where I live, a farming community really. Even the tourist parts are small and backwards.
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
You don't have a local fish market anywhere? Or the produce dept of a grocery store?
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
Haha, you wouldn't understand how devoid of a lot of things we are living out in the boonies! My town has only 1 grocery store and the only seafood they have is fishsticks!Pufferpunk wrote:You don't have a local fish market anywhere? Or the produce dept of a grocery store?
My situation is similar to the OP's.
So, try to go to a local walmart or chain pet store. They have frozen shrimp, clams, etc that should fit the bill. HTH!
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
Walmart also sells earthworms, in the fishing Dept.
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
We don't have anything like Walmart in the UK, it is, literally, frozen cooked mixed or crab sticks. Or tiger prawns at £1 a shrimp <winces> Thank goodness I can get decent earthworms from the garden.
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
and crickets!Pufferpunk wrote:Walmart also sells earthworms, in the fishing Dept.
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
how about Costco?Stratters wrote:We don't have anything like Walmart in the UK, it is, literally, frozen cooked mixed or crab sticks. Or tiger prawns at £1 a shrimp <winces> Thank goodness I can get decent earthworms from the garden.
ours has frozen mussels, frozen cockles, frozen shrimp, all uncooked!
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
Walmart is called Asda in the UK but all supermarkets have a fish section, even if you don't have a proper fishmonger section in your local(ish) supermarket the chiller section will always have uncooked shellfish - may only be mussels with a shell on if your local shop is only small though. Don't feed mussels as the only food item though because they contain Thiamanese which could cause a vitamin B1 deficiency.Stratters wrote:We don't have anything like Walmart in the UK, it is, literally, frozen cooked mixed or crab sticks. Or tiger prawns at £1 a shrimp <winces> Thank goodness I can get decent earthworms from the garden.
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
No Costco in the uk either. Quite a few places in the uk have low populations so big supermarkets etc won't open there. Luckily I live in a built up part
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
Seriously, I have the choice of 3 not big supermarkets to shop at, and out of those only one sells uncooked shellfish, and that's the £1 a shrimp tiger prawns that I already feed him. At least I get a decent amount of meals out of one of them, but I do worry about his lack of variation.
Adsa is owned by Walmart, but it is a very, very poor imitation, and we don't see any of the stuff regularly on sale at Walmart; here Asda is just another supermarket, no better or worse than the others, but definitely not Walmart. The pet food range is strictly canned/dried cat and dog food, bird food, and rabbit muesli. More chance of seeing aliens pushing a cart there than finding crickets or worms!
Ex husband has bought him some clams, and bunged them in the freezer; I'm lucky, he bought Piggy as a gift for me, and is rather find of him himself.
Adsa is owned by Walmart, but it is a very, very poor imitation, and we don't see any of the stuff regularly on sale at Walmart; here Asda is just another supermarket, no better or worse than the others, but definitely not Walmart. The pet food range is strictly canned/dried cat and dog food, bird food, and rabbit muesli. More chance of seeing aliens pushing a cart there than finding crickets or worms!
Ex husband has bought him some clams, and bunged them in the freezer; I'm lucky, he bought Piggy as a gift for me, and is rather find of him himself.
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Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
But one of the benefits of living in villages outside of the towns is that you still have local butchers and fishmongers which can still compete with the prices of the smaller, more expensive supermarkets. Louth is pretty close to Grimsby so surely the local fish monger can order all sorts; cockles would be perfect!bertie 83 wrote:No Costco in the uk either. Quite a few places in the uk have low populations so big supermarkets etc won't open there. Luckily I live in a built up part
Failing that I doubt that there are many places in the UK that a large supermarket won't deliver a weekly shop to.
Re: Feeding, I have frozen mixed seafood, but it is cooked.
Yes we have Costco over here in the Uk I got crab claws from there.
Asda and Tesco between them had enough variety in frozen seafood to feed my army of puffers. Go up to the main fish counter and at the side they always have a separate freezer. Don't bother looking at the 'general' freezers because that is where all the 'cooked' seafood is. You can get Prawns, cockle, mussel, shrimp, whitebait and a seafood cocktail.
Asda and Tesco between them had enough variety in frozen seafood to feed my army of puffers. Go up to the main fish counter and at the side they always have a separate freezer. Don't bother looking at the 'general' freezers because that is where all the 'cooked' seafood is. You can get Prawns, cockle, mussel, shrimp, whitebait and a seafood cocktail.
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