Home made fish food

[mcpiii1124]

I have been hearing and reading a lot lately about homemade fish food. Mother inadvertently bought freshwater shrimp at the store :hammer: and does not want to cook with them. SOOO my questions are:

1 i know a few of you make your own food- if you would be willing to share the secret recipe that would be great

2 would freshwater shrimp be accepted

3 what are the benefits to homemade food.

 

[mbingha]

I'm interested as well in recipes. Depending on inhabitants, I'm thinking raw (saltwater) shrimp, scallops, oysters, and nori. Some people add garlic for finicky eaters.

 

[suicideissleep]

I get anything saltwater from the deli throw it all in a blender with ro water extreme garlic and nori I feed it all the time fish love it I have a bag I can spare if you wanna try it

 

[Shells4]

We have made our on food for 3 years. We don't really have a recipe but this is what we generally add: shrimp, oysters, clams, package of Mysis, cod, small amount of salmon, squid (although the fish aren't too wild about that), sometimes sea bass or whatever saltwater fish the seafood market happens to have in stock. We add several sheets of nori chopped into small pieces and about half a bottle of selcon for the Vit. C. We make a big batch, enough to last our 3 tanks a few months. We freeze it in ice cube trays. If we want to add garlic, we add a fresh clove when it is defrosted because it loses its nutritional value if it is frozen. Personally I don't like the texture if it is all chopped in the blender/food processor. I do a rough chop with a knife and then just a couple of quick pulses in the food processor to keep some of the chunks in there for our larger fish. very easy, a little bit more cost effective, and the fish love it.

We do add a few cups of RO/DI water to blend it easier.

 

[BubbaBoBobBrain]

I make my own food too. I use oysters (make sure you use a dull knife. Learned that the hard way, lol), cod, shrimp, scallops, water, a little salmon, nori, brine, mysis, cyclopeze, garlic, and some pellets. Chop it in a blender, place in zip loc bags, and freeze.

 

[sdheath]

Here's my recipe.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=15880816

 

[Useful_Idiot]

I will just buy local mussels and chop them up and freeze. Last week Lobster was on sale for 3.99 a lb and I had to try it. Turned out to be not that great of an idea because the meat doesn't really separate from the shell when it's raw. Eating the lobster myself would've been a better idea. Also don't use an oily fish It will kill the head on your skimmer for way too long.

 

[geomarq]

I do similar concoctions as above but place the pulp/food flat, then vacuum seal into small bags. I keep bags in freezer, cut off small sections as needed, thaw the food in some Vita Chem, then smush with finger depending on how thick I want it or who needs to eat more. Also vary and feed straight pellets and Misys shrimp sometimes also.

 

[LeslieP]

I drop little blops of the mixed food onto a cookie sheet and freeze it. Then put the little chunks in a bag in the freezer. Like the others I use shrimp scallops cyclopeeze some piece of fish that's on sale, selcon, nori, oyster feast, whatever. I've done this since I set up my first reef tank back in 2001. Some larger chunks for the fish and some processed bits for the corals.

 

[mcpiii1124]

Thanks guys i am definately going to do this and c how it effects things

 

[Collinrb]

don't use the house blender for this. take a trip to wal Mart and grab a cheap one. write fish ALL OVER IT hahaha

 

[BubbaBoBobBrain]

don't use the house blender for this. take a trip to wal Mart and grab a cheap one. write fish ALL OVER IT hahaha

I tried a cheap Walmart blender the first time I made my food and it burnt out the motor in 2 minutes because I didn't have enough water in it at first. After that I went on craigslist and found a beast of a blender that was like $80 in store and new in the package and got it for $20. I say check out craigslist too because there are lots of deals of you are patient enough to look

 

[sassAwrasse]

check out Savers or Goodwill for a nice wellbuilt used food processor.

I had my sister get us one for Xmas just for "fish food" LOL

 

[mcpiii1124]

don't use the house blender for this. take a trip to wal Mart and grab a cheap one. write fish ALL OVER IT hahaha

Thats probably a good idea- i dont like fish tasting milk shakes