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Fintastic seems to be only lrs
Rics had lrs but yesterday had none and sounded like he wasn’t getting more.
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I just spoke to Rick at 8:50 PM on Monday March 26th and he did an inventory while on the phone with me. He has Reef Frenzy, Herbivore, Chunky and Nano in his freezer. He also placed another order to restock since he was out of Fish Frenzy®. Sorry for the confusion but he is very supportive of LRS and continues to offer it for his customers.
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My son and I will be there walking the show. I look forward to meeting you!
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I was told that the Herbivore Frenzy was discontinued.
I'm not sure where you heard that, but Herbivore Frenzy is one of our most popular sellers and very much in production. It is a favorite of commercial service and maintenance firms and makes for simplified feeding when cut into proportioned squares for larger tanks.
I appreciate the positive feedback from club members and we certainly ship a lot of food to stores in VA, MD, etc. so I think it will move well once people give it a try.
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There was no signs of bubbles or anything. I think it might be what Larry responded with here. I think my last batch was a bit older and most likely had garlic in it.
Hey Larry,
As always, thanks for a detailed response and post. I apologize if my post came off negative towards your company, I in no way meant for that to happen. I love LRS foods and so do my fish. This isn't my first flat. If there is any issue with this food I take full responsibility beings the food thawed under my care. I was more so curious if I should keep using it or throw it out and give you guys a little more of my money, a little earlier than expected.
David I took no offense and I actually wanted to write a detailed reply about why garlic was removed because I don't think it was ever addressed in my WAMAS forum.
I would keep feeding it without issue as long as you see no problems and it doesn't appear the food was permitted to spoil at some point along the way. Thanks again fro your business!
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David,
Thanks for posting your question here so that I can reply and help clarify any questions in case other members have a similar experience. At LRS we receive shipments twice a week of various fresh ingredients such as shrimp, scallop, clams, oysters, fish, blackworms, etc. We supplement our foods with other frozen items such as PE Mysis, krill, and squid. The majority of the fresh ingredients have no smell since they are kept below 40 degrees during transit from my suppliers to our doorstep. On occasion I have noticed that the wild-caught ocean perch may smell a tad stronger than some shipments. It doesn't smell offensive or spoiled, just a little stronger than the batch received the week prior. My supplier keeps detailed inventory logs ensuring that the perch is transported on the same timeline from harvest to my door each week. We've been doing this for five years now so we have it down to a very short timeline, especially due to the quantity of seafood we need each week. There just seems to be a variance in the "fishy" smell of the perch possibly due to the packing water or other reasons unknown. We have never had it to be an issue and as the post I made earlier regarding captive breeding, some of the world's rarest and most expensive fish are fed LRS on a daily basis for months and years.
Please bear in mind that while the pack of food you receive may smell fishy to YOUR nose (and your girlfriend) by no means should this be considered a negative. (Ruling out that the food was properly cared for and has not spoiled, which would be a whole other issue.) Many people speculate that the reason LRS has been so successful with getting finicky fish to eat is BECAUSE the food has a 100% natural smell, which may at times smell like strong seafood.
In case you didn't notice this in the past it may be because LRS deleted garlic extract from ALL our foods in early 2016 at the request of marine researchers and the folks using our foods with extremely valuable fish. There have been no scientific studies showing garlic offers any benefit in a marine diet and studies are starting to surface showing marine fish cannot metabolize this terrestrial substance and long-term use can be harmful. Garlic DOES do a really good job of masking seafood odors especially when added to large amounts in aquarium foods. Since our foods are based on science and research if we couldn't find any research supporting garlic's ability to boost immunity we deleted it all together. We added garlic initially when we were a new company because we too believed the myths surrounding garlic's effectiveness but you live and learn.
When we deleted garlic from our blends we did so with little public announcement and over the last year our sales continued to climb. Reports of success with finicky feeders poured into our inbox, even without garlic in the foods. It seems odd to add garlic to fish food to make it smell like a pizza verses the natural seafood ingredients in the recipe.
I hope this answered some of your questions and comforts you about the safety of the product. If you want to send me the lot number from the rear of the package I can check the manufacture date and see when it was produced. Due to new regulations in the pet food world we are now placing digital lot numbers on each package and we have online data logging of our storage temps so we can always verify the integrity of products stored at our facility.
Thanks for using LRS and we appreciate your business and the Club's support.
Larry
This Lot Number will be found on the rear above the ingredient label:
Temperature Data Log
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No videos? I want to see the little ones swimming around.
I have videos, just haven't had a moment to compile anything. No sooner did I return from Florida I had to fly to Michigan for the Marine Breeders Workshop. It is a busy time in aquaculture!
There are a lot more posts on the Rising Tide Conservation Facebook page.
We had a little fun with the announcement by passing out about 40 T-shirts at the MBI workshop. The name "Who's your daddy" was the perfect fit.
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It is pretty amazing!
We were invited down to Florida two weeks ago to get a sneak peek at the fish during their transitional phase. Over the past year we have used feedback from the lab to tweak our Fertility Frenzy, which was the food used for the broodstock diet. We are extremely honored to have been involved with the project, even if our contribution was a small one.
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I tried to trick the CBB into eating pellets for some bulk by coating them in LRS, but he simply sucks off all of the lrs and spits out the pellet.
Oh you sneaky devil..LOL..
Thank you for all the kudos my friends! The freshness of our ingredients makes all the difference in the feeding response. Many other specialty foods claim to be as effective at convincing new arrivals to eat, but we have yet to see evidence of it. We have a dealer map where you can enter your zip to find the closest LRS dealer here: http://www.larrysreefservices.com/where-to-buy-lrs.html
The guys at King of Corals are pretty awesome I have to admit!
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Thanks for sharing and using LRS. We keep getting tons of pics and videos from folks hand feeding our foods and I enjoy them all. Even the stores are using more LRS in house with new arrivals to get fish eating faster.
This is another similar video: https://youtu.be/73qlzs_uDIU?list=FLgjUqayLvNIBDT5wGQGDzHg
Believe it or not the Fertility Frenzy breeder food with extra clams and fish oil works great as well. This video is from Japan:
We get some cool photos sent to us as well.
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These fish were not exposed to carbon in the grow out system, so there seem to be other issues regarding water quality as possibly a contributing factor. We have been sending food and seaweed to OI and get frequent updates on the project.
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I'm excited that we are hopefully going to see blue tangs captive bred in the near future. We'll be making another trip down to the Tropical Aquaculture Lab in Ruskin, FL for sure when that happens! Very exciting times for the hobby and all the researchers involved.
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Black worms, perhaps? Soaked in selcon? I've always had success with LRS food, even with finicky eaters like copperbands.
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Locally sourced fresh clams are a great way to get a fish eating, as are scallop shredded. Freeze any raw seafood for 8+ hours before feeding for parasite control, just to be safe.
Since YHSublime mentioned it I am gonna be shameless and insert a plug... LOL
We have a great reputation with finicky feeders eating our foods going all the way back to MACNA 2014 where we helped the G. personatus project by coaxing the male to eat after refusing to eat for 6 weeks. There are a bunch of videos including the G. Personatus mentioned above on this page: http://www.larrysreefservices.com/media-gallery.html
We shipped a big order to a museum in Korea this week to feed a display tank with $50,000+ worth of angels I just didn't get a chance to post about it yet on WAMAS.
Good luck!
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LRS is very good food. I use it myself occasionally. It is almost the only commercial food I use. Larry was good enough to give me a package and I loved it. Now I buy it like everyone else.
Thanks Paul for the kudos! I always enjoy our chats and thank you for the vote of support.
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Feeding silversides has fallen out of popularity with many folks who propagate anemones. There are a lot of foods available which are easier to digest and have less waste to expel than silversides. Feeding them seems to make them more "full" and they will likely split more frequently which may or may not be your desired outcome.
If you wanna talk Nems, Joe from the Long Island Aquarium has an amazing tank full of them. If I recall correctly he started this tank 12 years ago with four nems and with regular heavy feedings he now has this...
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Thanks Larry! I actually spoke to you briefly at MACNA. Hoping to try out your new blend when it becomes available.
The first few hundred packs were produced this week and pre-orders begin shipping Monday!
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Good job. If you've gotten them to 14 days you're past the hardest part. Did you see the Roger Williams Univ. exhibit at MACNA? They had 21 day old clownfish larvae in their modular larval rearing system.
Andy is doing some really cool things up at Roger Williams University. As soon as I can break away I am taking a trip up there to spend a couple days in their lab. Andy is wealth of knowledge and I enjoy picking his bran every chance I get. Congrats on the clowns hatch!
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Larry, I still have a little of your food left and am looking for more with the bacteria in it you mentioned. I have been on this bacteria kick for about a year and we never read anything on it. I have always added mud to my water for the bacteria. People just seem content to let their fish get sick, then try to cure them. I think that is a stupid idea as our fish should "never" get sick and I firmly believe bacteria is the key to keeping up their immunity. Adding bacteria to your food is a great idea. With the drought in California I am having trouble getting blackworms so a frozen food with bacteria would be the next best thing. Especially your food with the blackworms already in it. I still have some worms but not many.
I think in the near future we will see added bacteria in all foods as that is the way to go and we have to get off this sterility kick.
Luckily, I can still get live clams, but I usually eat them myself so the fish don't get many.
Who sells your food in my area on Long Island?
Paul, trying to pack for MACNA but wanted to jump on real quick. You can search our map here: http://www.larrysreefservices.com/where-to-buy-lrs.html
We have several vendors on LI selling our food. Paul, I'll keep you updated on what progress is made as these research facilities move forward.
I was curious on how long that bacteria stays alive in frozen foods. I assume after you have had the frozen food in the freezer the effectiveness of it decreases. Like I said, this is just an assumption.
Bacteria actually stops replicating in the freezer and goes into a dormant state. When the foods are warmed up the bacteria actually will continue to be viable. Hence the reason we have to cook our foods before we eat them because freezing alone will not render them safe. You can actually google and find a ton of studies on bacteria (and probiotics in aquaculture going back a decade or more) and there is some data to indicate that bacteria will start to decrease it's effectiveness a little bit over time, month after month. That is of of the reasons we have abandoned the typical frozen food distribution model and "self distribute" our foods directly to stores. We don't keep any food here more than ten days and the average turnaround is typically 5-7 days after production.
By starting with over a million colony forming units per gram of food it ensures that even after the time sitting at a store (1-3 months based on our typical refill rate) the product should still be beneficial when it arrives at your home.
Gotta run but happy to answer any more questions as time permits.
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Larry, I still have a little of your food left and am looking for more with the bacteria in it you mentioned. I have been on this bacteria kick for about a year and we never read anything on it. I have always added mud to my water for the bacteria. People just seem content to let their fish get sick, then try to cure them. I think that is a stupid idea as our fish should "never" get sick and I firmly believe bacteria is the key to keeping up their immunity. Adding bacteria to your food is a great idea. With the drought in California I am having trouble getting blackworms so a frozen food with bacteria would be the next best thing. Especially your food with the blackworms already in it. I still have some worms but not many.
I think in the near future we will see added bacteria in all foods as that is the way to go and we have to get off this sterility kick.
Luckily, I can still get live clams, but I usually eat them myself so the fish don't get many.
Who sells your food in my area on Long Island?
Paul, trying to pack for MACNA but wanted to jump on real quick. You can search our map here: http://www.larrysreefservices.com/where-to-buy-lrs.html
We have several vendors on LI selling our food. Paul, I'll keep you updated on what progress is made as these research facilities move forward.
I was curious on how long that bacteria stays alive in frozen foods. I assume after you have had the frozen food in the freezer the effectiveness of it decreases. Like I said, this is just an assumption.
Bacteria actually stops replicating in the freezer and goes into a dormant state. When the foods are warmed up the bacteria actually will continue to be viable. Hence the reason we have to cook our foods before we eat them because freezing alone will not render them safe. You can actually google and find a ton of studies on bacteria (and probiotics in aquaculture going back a decade or more) and there is some data to indicate that bacteria will start to decrease it's effectiveness a little bit over time, month after month. That is of of the reasons we have abandoned the typical frozen food distribution model and "self distribute" our foods directly to stores. We don't keep any food here more than ten days and the average turnaround is typically 5-7 days after production.
By starting with over a million colony forming units per gram of food it ensures that even after the time sitting at a store (1-3 months based on our typical refill rate) the product should still be beneficial when it arrives at your home.
Gotta run but happy to answer any more questions as time permits.
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Paul great post about naturally occurring bacteria and the benefits to captive aquarium fish. Since 2013 we have been studying the research done in aquaculture for the finfish, scallops, shrimp etc which are farmed for us to consume. Typically bacteria is added to the water, but also aquaculture feeds are often supplemented with bacteria as well. We began adding active cultures of probiotic bacteria to our foods in 2013 and the results have been very positive with numerous aquaculture facilities using our foods for breeding delicate species, some of which have not been bred before in captivity. The probiotics was a big reason many folks were drawn to our foods and the Testimonials on our site are starting to stack up from breeding projects so it is making many folks take notice.
Rather than cut and paste I'll just share the link to the page where the benefits are explained and there is a link to an article on raising clownfish with added bacteria. http://www.larrysreefservices.com/probiotics.html
Sorry for the shameless plug, but this topic has been one which we have been very passionate about and it likely will becoming in the spotlight as more and more foods begin to add bacteria. A trip to my LFS recently revealed another frozen food maker is adding "probiotics" to their frozen food available in cube form. Our newest "Fertility Frenzy" broodstock diet has two additional strains of bacteria not found in our other blends. A couple hundred packs have been in circulation with breeders posting very positive results.
Recently at the Marine Breeding Initiative Workshop in Michigan the topic of supplementing foods with bacteria to benefit the host and larvae was discussed. We are watching closely as the Tropical Aquaculture Lab in Florida and also the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii recently introduced our foods into the blue hippo and yellow tang breeding projects.
In January of this year we were welcomed into the Rising Tide Conservation project and many of the biologists were very interested in obtaining frozen food with "active" bacteria added.
Obviously, your OP was regarding the live bacteria in the pods and worms you are feeding, but absent of someone having access to the live foods as you do feeding a frozen food supplemented with bacteria is the next best thing.
Gotta finish packing for MACNA!
Larry
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MSRP is $26.99
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I was speaking with Paul from King of Corals this morning and they do have a few packs in stock. I'm not sure how far that store is from you. As a side note we distribute all the PE lineup of products to our stocking dealers so if you search this map you might find a source nearby. I know it sounds kind of vague but I don't want to promise who has it without a telephone call to verify. It has been flying out of here as fast as we receive it and most folks like it a lot.
MAP: http://www.larrysreefservices.com/where-to-buy-lrs.html
Here is a new video about it too: https://youtu.be/IRAuSJvsOrE
Hope this helps.
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Yup each Pair gets fed 4-5 times daily seperately.
I like it! Keep us in the loop with updates.
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I will be there and am looking forward to it!
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It was good to meet you Larry. We had a great conversation as well. You probably spoke to a ton of people.
I'd have to see your face to remember. Lol. Non-stop all day at the show and then up til 100AM last night about caused me to almost lose my voice.
On i-26 now head North back home.
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Morgan is it possible he has two freezers? While on the phone with me Rick was shuffling through the freezer giving me an exact count of what he had of each blend. I could hear frozen flat packs of food slapping against one another as he was rattling off the totals of what he had. I can call him back today to clarify what he really has if desired. I'm not local so I have to go off of what my retailer tells me.