Homemade fish food

[sealey13]

Im looking for other reefers recipes for their fish food. I have a few ingredients in mind like shrimp, scallops, squid, oysters, nori, and some garlic. I need help with how I should blend it all together. Should I add ingredients or take some things out? Feel free to add your own recipes if you have them.

 

[crabbyjoe]

Im looking for other reefers recipes for their fish food. I have a few ingredients in mind like shrimp, scallops, squid, oysters, nori, and some garlic. I need help with how I should blend it all together. Should I add ingredients or take some things out? Feel free to add your own recipes if you have them.

i used almost everything you've mentioned for my last batch and have had great results with my clowns, tang, gobies, chromis' and wrasses. i added fresh romaine to a mix of shrimp, clams, garlic, nori, and scallops and they really just tear it up. i think the key is a good mix but lean toward the protein side vs veggies for the overall balance. a well place piece of romaine always goes a long way toward making up what might be missing for tangs.

 

[sealey13]

Did you blend it fine or leave it chunky?

 

[HenkP]

Here are some recipes that might provide some additional inspiration. The first one in particular uses a lot of ingredients.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXN4Qf6iSdA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8lcWQ8DFA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSx2sOZIuc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[crabbyjoe]

Did you blend it fine or leave it chunky?

blended it but not liquified all the way. still want pieces big enough for fish to see and munch on. i froze it in a freezer bag laying flat and thin and just break off pieces as needed and thaw in RODI. then feed tank w/ syringe feeder.

Lots of good recipes out there if you look.

 

[sealey13]

Okay i cant wait to give it a shot. I hope everything will turn out well

 

[Mavrk]

Here is one I like:
http://www.melevsreef.com/food.html

 

[Peter Eichler]

I'd skip the garlic as there's no real evidence of its benefits in fish. It also could potentially be harmful to certain organs in fish. Stick to things that come from the sea!

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

I would add clams and salmon to your list. Also left over flake food. I chop mine up with a knife and then freeze it. I slice off small pieces and just drop them in the tank.

 

[eyesinthedrk]

When I lived in Louisiana I would have friends that went on salt water fishing trips, when they clean Ed and filtered their catch I would take the guts less the stomachs and some un used meat

In a ziploc bag I would lay a line of fish meat across the bottom. If I had shrimp or oysters in the freezer i add a line of them across as well and toss in the guts. Roll it all up and toss it in the freezer.

At feeding time I take of the frozen brick and use a cheese grater to shave off proper sized morsels for feeding time.

Food is all natural, free, no mess and a 2" thick brick the length of a sandwich bag lasts forever.

 

[Paul B]

I freeze clams and shave off thin pieces. Thats it,
No blender, no mush.