home made fish food ???

[agreeive?fish]

anybody have a good recipe for a homemade fish food that would cover meat and plant eaters (fish) as the basic staple food..altough i will continue to feed my current varrity of foods as well
my fish include (in various tanks)
puffers,
triggers,
large angels
drawf angels
tangs
clownfish
dartfish
wrasses(non reef safe)
scatt

 

[tang56]

Heres a good one, from Bob Fenners conscientous marine aquarist...

Fenner's Wonderful Marine Mash

4 ounces peeled shrimp
2 ounces mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters)
2 ounces seaweed or algae (spinach if you can't find the seaweed)
1 packet gelatin dissolved in 2 ournces warm tap water
1 ounce liquid mutlivitamin

Thaw any frozen ingredients. Chip the shrimp into half inch pieces and combine all ingredients in a blender. Pulse until the solids have been chopped to the size appropriate for your fishes - very coarse for bigger eaters and fine for very small species or filter feeding inverterbrates.

The finished melange can now be frozen, either in sheets on waxed paper or as one lump formed into a ball. (The latter is then scrubed across a cheese grater each time a portion of food is needed.) By all means, feel free to improvise and improve on this simple recipe. The only hard and fast ruleds are to avoid spoiled or contaiminated ingredients and to stick with protein sources of saltwater origin.

Source: page 145 of Robert Fenner's The Conscientious Marine Aquuarist

 

[Scuba_Steve]

Here is what I always do.

Find a grocery store that specializes in asian foods.

They will sell a raw seafood package made for a seafood gumbo I believe. It has a little bit of everything. Shrimp, clams, octopus, ect, ect...

Get a package of dried nori. The plainer the better. Most of the packages will not be the basic plain stuff.

If you have any selcon, or garlic additives, get them out too. If not a few pieces of finely minced garlic.

Blend the seafood first. Octopus doesn't cooperate well btw. Blend in small portions or you will fry your blender. You want it nicely pureed when done. Add in the nori and garlic. If you wish add in some flake or pellet when all done and give it a quick blast from the blender just to get it mixed in well. There are no specific amounts on any of this. Add in as much as you feel is necessary.

Get a cookie sheet and lay waxed paper down. Cut a piece of eggcrate to fit nicely in the cookie sheet. Spread the mixture over the eggcrate and freeze.

Bon appetit!

 

[Chris Atkinson]

Heres a good one, from Bob Fenners conscientous marine aquarist...

Fenner's Wonderful Marine Mash

4 ounces peeled shrimp
2 ounces mollusks (clams, mussels, oysters)
2 ounces seaweed or algae (spinach if you can't find the seaweed)
1 packet gelatin dissolved in 2 ournces warm tap water
1 ounce liquid mutlivitamin

Thaw any frozen ingredients. Chip the shrimp into half inch pieces and combine all ingredients in a blender. Pulse until the solids have been chopped to the size appropriate for your fishes - very coarse for bigger eaters and fine for very small species or filter feeding inverterbrates.

The finished melange can now be frozen, either in sheets on waxed paper or as one lump formed into a ball. (The latter is then scrubed across a cheese grater each time a portion of food is needed.) By all means, feel free to improvise and improve on this simple recipe. The only hard and fast ruleds are to avoid spoiled or contaiminated ingredients and to stick with protein sources of saltwater origin.

Source: page 145 of Robert Fenner's The Conscientious Marine Aquuarist

Sweet! I have Fenner's book and have been wondering how this recipe works.

I've been buying some commercial frozen food, and the fish love it...but I think I'll give it a try. What do you use for liquid multivitamin and where do you get it? That's the main reason I've not yet tried it.

Thanks!

 

[Chris27]

Here is my recipe - it works well for a majority of fish. Basically all you need is a blender and an understanding wife who doesn't mind when you make a mess in the kitchen.

1. Bag of frozen raw seafoood (octopus, squid, shrimp, clams and some fish)
2. 1/2 sleeve Reef Plankton
3. 8 oz. mysis
4. 1/2 sleeve Prime Reef
5. 2 sheets of nori
6. 3 TBSP Garlic Guard
7. 8 oz. Krill
8. 2 TBSP Vita Chem
9. 1/2 sleeve Emerald Entree

 

[Friday Night]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMFDjkKldjo

 

[Jstdv8]

I put a lb of large raw shrimp, 2 scallops, 2 chunks of cod, 2 squid, 2 crab legs and 2 sheets of nori soaked in RO water to make soft into the vitamix with 2 cloves of garlic mix untill puree, pour on a cookie sheet and put into the freezer until its somewhat hard then cut it into 1/2" squares and put it in a gallon ziplock freezer bag. use as needed.

Note: I really like the egg crate and wax paper idea, I'm going to use that next time.
be sure to use only raw wild caught seafood items.
I prefer not to add anything special so that I know exactly what my fish are eating.
all 4 of my fish eat the stuff including my sixline and mandarin

 

[danderson8019]

What do you all use to mix a food processor or blender?

 

[shaggss]

Note: I really like the egg crate and wax paper idea, I'm going to use that next time.

Why not just use an ice cube tray? You can get ones the size of the egg crate and no mess with the wax paper. HTH

What do you all use to mix a food processor or blender?

Food processor is better......

Here is a good source of info.

 

[Conrad25]

Limpits Reef food is excellent. I get it actually from him so I don't have to make it, but his receipe is great and he has that great DIY youtube video someone posted above with all his instructions on he has done it and still does

Conrad

 

[Jstdv8]

Why not just use an ice cube tray? You can get ones the size of the egg crate and no mess with the wax paper. HTH



Food processor is better......

Here is a good source of info.

everybody has a blender, not everyone has a food processor.

also, ice cube trays are way to small for the amount of food this makes. it fills up an entire cookie sheet 1/2" deep

 

[disenchantedone]

+1 on Limpitsreef! Been using his youtube recipe for years and my fish and corals love it!

 

[agreeive?fish]

everybody has a blender, not everyone has a food processor.

not so,i dont have a blender but i do have a food processor although its a small cheap one used strictly for fish food

 

[Jstdv8]

all i have is this sill vita-mix

 

[Dholmblad]

I am going to give this a shot tonight. Any advice for someone making own fish food for the first time?

 

[GKill]

Instead of freezing has anyone tried putting this recipe in a drier? I have a unit to dry jerky, fruits, veggies, etc.

 

[Jstdv8]

I am going to give this a shot tonight. Any advice for someone making own fish food for the first time?

it's hard work, but totally worth it and very rewarding when you see your fish go crazy for your food.
My fish won't eat that gel stuff or pellets after eating my stuff hehehe

 

[Dholmblad]

it doesnt look like hard work.

buy ingredients
wash
put in food processor
freeze

delicious delicious

 

[Jstdv8]

took me about an hour to do everything. Some of it is a pain in the butt.
You'll see
I reccomend it to everyone, but it isn't the easiest thing ive ever done that's for sure.

 

[Friday Night]

Limpits Reef food is excellent. I get it actually from him so I don't have to make it, but his receipe is great and he has that great DIY youtube video someone posted above with all his instructions on he has done it and still does

Conrad

+1 i have used it as well.. and it did wonders... wonder why he hasnt made any recent videos.. any event +1 on his chow...