Making your own fish food

[sherman]

I try and make my own fish food. I usually take a bag of frozen shrimp, frozen mussels, add some crab meat, nori or other green, put it all in a Magicmix and then bag it up in thin layers and back in the freezer.

Questions - 1. I noticed that some of the bags of frozen mussels and shrimp say precooked. From a nutritional point of view, does it matters if the shrimp or mussels are precooked or raw?

2. To try and add any vitamins? If so, which ones and what's the best way, powder? Liquid?

 

[reefergeorge]

I don't know about the cooked part, but I always add vita chem, and selcon to mine.
FWIW I use the mini ice cube trays. It works great.

 

[pinkie]

I make my own fish food, and never use precooked food. Avoid the precooked stuff. I am almost always able to find some good raw food from the seafood department (like scallops, shrimp, saltwater filet, clam, etc) or from an asian market (octopus, squid). I also usually pick up krill and silversides from my LFS. I use a variety of liquid vitamins, mix everything (after cutting it up) in a bowl, and putting them in 1lb ziploc bags. I then put them in a freezer, and break off a piece when it is feeding time. Has worked great for me for well over a year now. Fish are very healthy and I have saved a lot of money.

 

[jdmarano]

If you don't have the mini ice cube trays you can make flat ziploc freezer packs and then cut-up the pack with a fork into the size pieces you need. Makes feeding quicker and easier.