ReefandSwim
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any good homemade recipes out there
homemade fish food recipes
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cranchreef
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I use a mixture of things and everyone seems happy - I make my food....
RO/DI water to start
raw shrimp blended
Dried seaweed
Freeze dried mysis shrimp
Freeze dried brine shrimp
Freeze dried blood worms
Freeze dried Krill
Freeze dried Cyclops
Mix all together in a blender, pour into ice cube trays and freeze - Each morning I thaw one in a cup of RO/DI water and feed. It makes all happy including the corals.
I also feed with marine snow and a few other bottles of great stuff!
Hope this helps!
RO/DI water to start
raw shrimp blended
Dried seaweed
Freeze dried mysis shrimp
Freeze dried brine shrimp
Freeze dried blood worms
Freeze dried Krill
Freeze dried Cyclops
Mix all together in a blender, pour into ice cube trays and freeze - Each morning I thaw one in a cup of RO/DI water and feed. It makes all happy including the corals.
I also feed with marine snow and a few other bottles of great stuff!
Hope this helps!
Kobashi
Member
Too funny. Just met Chranchreef yesterday... we should have compared notes.
There are several on-line, and they're pretty much the same. I think the hardest part is making and storing it (with a wife with a sensitive nose). I've been playing with a recipe trying to finalize it... some of the things that I've learned along the way:
- It stinks! And in bluk, it will stink up the freezer no matter how many ziplocks you use. A few weeks ago, I bought a freezer off of CL especially for it.
- I put in the chunkier (more consistent) foods first (some you may need to chop into small pieces like squid or octopus), and then (while adding just a little water here and there) move to the softer (nori- seaweed or other fish foods), and finally with the supplements or liquid food.
- I've tried adding gelatin (special process for this so you don't cook your batch of food... you always want to keep everything cool). Adding just a little doesn't yield rock hard "ice cubes", but adding too much gives you an inseparable fish jello shot. Err on the side of too little is my advice on this.
- The way I look at it, the value is in the diversity of the foods, so I don't think you can really go wrong as far as sticking to a "recipe". I typically make about 32oz at a time (lasts about a month). I don't measure but here's the general estimations (and I've changed it every time):
About 16oz total (about 1-2oz of each) of the following:
-- raw shrimp / white fish (cod, halibut, grouper) / mussels / oysters / squid / octopus / scallops / clams / krill / silversides / ???
About 3-4oz total (about 1oz of each) of the following:
-- Nori (seaweed- I use 3 different types... but just 1oz total of it) / Cyclopeeze (I think this is the secret!) / Spinach / 1-2 cloves of garlic / Krill / Worms
About 1oz total (about 10ml of each) (I'm still acquiring some, but I would like to use)
Supplements such as Liquid phytoplankton (I think this may be a secret ingredient too) / Other fish foods / Reef Snow / Other fish/coral supplements / Vitamin C / Zoe Marine
-- And the rest is (RODI) water... so what about 11oz or so?
So minus the cost of the freezer (and the separate blender... my wife... don't ask... amazingly there's one at every yard sale), the cost (including supplements... cycopleeze is probably about $.75 itself) is probably $5-$10 a batch. I like to eat seafood so I order small portions of everything (because I feel weird asking for just an oz of things here and there), cut off parts for my fish food, and then make a "seafood surprise" dinner.
I've got a BRAND NEW T5 72g with "sparsely populated" corals((and 2 "pretty much" empty of coral 14g nano tanks)... I could really use a frag of something/anything... wanna trade? A coral something for a sample of my fish food?
There are several on-line, and they're pretty much the same. I think the hardest part is making and storing it (with a wife with a sensitive nose). I've been playing with a recipe trying to finalize it... some of the things that I've learned along the way:
- It stinks! And in bluk, it will stink up the freezer no matter how many ziplocks you use. A few weeks ago, I bought a freezer off of CL especially for it.
- I put in the chunkier (more consistent) foods first (some you may need to chop into small pieces like squid or octopus), and then (while adding just a little water here and there) move to the softer (nori- seaweed or other fish foods), and finally with the supplements or liquid food.
- I've tried adding gelatin (special process for this so you don't cook your batch of food... you always want to keep everything cool). Adding just a little doesn't yield rock hard "ice cubes", but adding too much gives you an inseparable fish jello shot. Err on the side of too little is my advice on this.
- The way I look at it, the value is in the diversity of the foods, so I don't think you can really go wrong as far as sticking to a "recipe". I typically make about 32oz at a time (lasts about a month). I don't measure but here's the general estimations (and I've changed it every time):
About 16oz total (about 1-2oz of each) of the following:
-- raw shrimp / white fish (cod, halibut, grouper) / mussels / oysters / squid / octopus / scallops / clams / krill / silversides / ???
About 3-4oz total (about 1oz of each) of the following:
-- Nori (seaweed- I use 3 different types... but just 1oz total of it) / Cyclopeeze (I think this is the secret!) / Spinach / 1-2 cloves of garlic / Krill / Worms
About 1oz total (about 10ml of each) (I'm still acquiring some, but I would like to use)
Supplements such as Liquid phytoplankton (I think this may be a secret ingredient too) / Other fish foods / Reef Snow / Other fish/coral supplements / Vitamin C / Zoe Marine
-- And the rest is (RODI) water... so what about 11oz or so?
So minus the cost of the freezer (and the separate blender... my wife... don't ask... amazingly there's one at every yard sale), the cost (including supplements... cycopleeze is probably about $.75 itself) is probably $5-$10 a batch. I like to eat seafood so I order small portions of everything (because I feel weird asking for just an oz of things here and there), cut off parts for my fish food, and then make a "seafood surprise" dinner.
I've got a BRAND NEW T5 72g with "sparsely populated" corals((and 2 "pretty much" empty of coral 14g nano tanks)... I could really use a frag of something/anything... wanna trade? A coral something for a sample of my fish food?
Mael
New member
I think anything food gvrade at a grocery store should be fine for the fish, so many people are making their own "reef frenzy" or Rods varient to save money we would have seen an issue with it. PLus I assume your fish are going to prefer raw to boiled.
Only thing I wouldnt put in is silversides. Seen nems killed by them because they dont have the same quality control as the other items(since it is not made for human consumption it doesnt need to be up to the same standards) and may have some bad stuff in there.
Only thing I wouldnt put in is silversides. Seen nems killed by them because they dont have the same quality control as the other items(since it is not made for human consumption it doesnt need to be up to the same standards) and may have some bad stuff in there.
jener8tionx
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I go the the Asian market in Chandler. My last batch had:
1. Blood clams
2. Krill
3. Squid
4. Octopus
5. Silversides
I also added frozen plankton and PE mysis. I do not add water or process other than 10 minutes in the blender.
My fish go nuts!
1. Blood clams
2. Krill
3. Squid
4. Octopus
5. Silversides
I also added frozen plankton and PE mysis. I do not add water or process other than 10 minutes in the blender.
My fish go nuts!
I'll give you money toward ingredients for some of these
Lee Lee's is the place, one stop shop! (almost)
I like to add Spirulina.. I'll infuse the food with garlic if my tang shows ich, its gone within 12 hrs. I think garlic is a broad anti bacteria and anti protozoan/parasite so I don't use it regularly since I generally want a lot of little life in the tank. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10594976
I like to add Spirulina.. I'll infuse the food with garlic if my tang shows ich, its gone within 12 hrs. I think garlic is a broad anti bacteria and anti protozoan/parasite so I don't use it regularly since I generally want a lot of little life in the tank. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10594976
briankmarsh1980
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@frogg21 are you saying that lee lees had an additive that kills parasites in there seafood?
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