Food for sea life comprising homogenized mixture of sea urchin eggs and sodium sulfite preservative
OwnerMichael Ortegainventor
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Abstract
A food for fish and invertebrates which is compatible with the ecology in a closed circuit salt water aquarium containing both fish and invertebrates contains broken sea urchin eggs, water, sodium nitrite, sodium chloride, and citric acid. The food is compounded by breaking the sea urchin eggs and blending them with the preservatives and water, and by pasturizing the blended material. In preferred form, the food is also homogenized.
Claims6
The method of preparing food for sea life which comprises the steps of:
- beating sea urchin eggs to break them open and reduce them to a homogeneous mass;
- adding a quantity sufficient to preserve said eggs, when homogenized, of sodium sulfite preservative to the eggs;
- adjusting the pH to a value in the range of 5.3 to 6.5;
- homogenizing the mixture of preservative and sea urchin eggs;
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- pasturizing the mixture.
A food for sea life comprising the blended homogenized and pasturized combination of washed sea urchin eggs and sodium sulfite in the ratio of 10 to 12 grams of sodium sulfite to 1 kilogram of sea urchin eggs.
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