Homemade food

[Dr Colliebreath]

I get fresh seafood from the fresh seafood section of a regular grocery store, chop it up by hand with a chopping knife, mix together and freeze in ziploc bags. I use a paring knife to slice thin pieces off the frozen block each day and feed.

I use scallops, shrimp, and salmon (it isn't too oily). Sometimes I open a couple of fresh clams and add chopped clam to the mix.

It isn't any more expensive than fish food and it has to be a lot better for the fish.

 

[jbvdhp]

*Asian, not Oriental.

 

[Paul B]

I buy live clams at a sea food market and after I eat most of them myself. I freeze the rest for my fish. After they are frozen, I shave off paper thin slices. Clams are my go to food and my fish get them every day along with live blackworms. I use little else except sometimes frozen Mysis. All my paired fish are spawning on this food and some of them are 25 years old

 

[marinelife]

where are you in Ohio?

 

[Drone]

At a recent club meeting of ours we made homemade food. I know some of the ingredients were scallops, shrimp, squid, octopus, white fish, blood worms, selcon, reef roids, coral frenzy, spectrum pellets, garlic extract. I'm not sure if there were more than that or not.

Maybe you guys could talk your local clubs into doing that for one of the meetings. Our club sales the rest to fund the event and hopefully future ones.

If anyone is near Pittsburgh we offer a bag of the food for a $10 donation. Come to the next meeting and listen to Mike Paletta's presentation and pick up a bag or two of food. Just stop by the Pittsburgh Marine Aquarium Society club forum and let them know you want some food so they know to bring it.

 

[Rakie]

Good suggestion on the cheese grater. We have found that a food processor also does a much better job than a blender in terms of more uniformity.

Agreed on this, big time. You can over chop if you're not careful of course, but you won't have liquid fish like if you blend a little too long..

Here's my suggestion -- Find a GOOD seafood market. The kinda place where everything is outstandingly fresh, and sadly more expensive than anywhere else. The extra $2-5 per ingredient are worth it.

- Squid
- Shrimp
- Clam
- Scallops
- White Flesh Fish
- Nori
- Caplin Roe (asian market near sushi stuff)
- Spirulina
- Mysis
- Selcon / Selco

Some people add Fish Oil which the fish freak out over apparently.