Who makes their own food?
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Rogger Castells
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I make my own, I will post recipes tomorrow. Long day!
MiddletonMark
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I make mine based roughly on this recipe:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176530
I skip a lot of the particulate foods [golden pearls] - and grind it to a little larger pieces so the fish eat well ... but have been very happy with this food.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176530
I skip a lot of the particulate foods [golden pearls] - and grind it to a little larger pieces so the fish eat well ... but have been very happy with this food.
240-Reefer
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go to the link home made
http://www.rl180reef.com/180/index.html
http://www.rl180reef.com/180/index.html
Agu
Premium Member
I use an "Asian Seafood" mix that's sold frozen at the grocery store, add sushi wrap, cyclop-eez, and selcon. Blend it up and freeze it.
Some seafood is preserved with phosphates. Be sure to check the label or ask your grocer if the seafood you're buying has been preserved. You don't want to add phosphates if you can avoid it.
Some seafood is preserved with phosphates. Be sure to check the label or ask your grocer if the seafood you're buying has been preserved. You don't want to add phosphates if you can avoid it.
Steven Pro
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Nori/Seaweed Selects
Freeze Dried Cyclop-Eeze
Tuna steaks
Shrimp (raw and uncleaned)
Vita-Chem
Selcon
I use that primarily for feeding my fish, but the corals grab some too.
Freeze Dried Cyclop-Eeze
Tuna steaks
Shrimp (raw and uncleaned)
Vita-Chem
Selcon
I use that primarily for feeding my fish, but the corals grab some too.
John Kelly
Goniopora Aficionado
John's Famous Goniopora Stew aka "The Hail Mary Mix"
http://www.goniopora.org/feeding.htm
http://www.goniopora.org/feeding.htm
Rogger Castells
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Recipe,
4 shrimp Lg 16/20 sz
3 scallops
4 mussels
3 squids
2 clams med
2 garlic cloves (process with the garlic press)
2 tspoon Cyclop-ezee. http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_fish_food_argent_cyclop-eeze.asp?CartId=
2 full squirts of selcon http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_additives_american_marine.asp?CartId=
2 pckg natural gelatine (find it by the baking items)
Mix all the ingredients except the gelatine in the food processor by pulsing it do not turn on the processor full blast cause it will totally make it in to paste, you want everything to be fine chopped. If you don't have a food processor you can do it the old fasshion way, sharp knive and cutting board!
Remove the mixture out into a large non metalic mixing bowl and set aside in the fridge.
On a different bowl combine the 2 Natural gelatin packages in a 1/2 cup of cold r/o water and then add 3/4 cup of boiling r/o water mix well and let it cool to room temperature.
Bring your seafood mixture out of the fridge and start incorporating the gelatin mixture liquid little by little until you get it well mix you will not use all the gelatin mix.
Place all this mixture into 1 or 2 large zip-lock bags, place flat on your counter and with your hands try to make it into a thin sheet free of air, seal the bag and place it in the freezer.
when is time to feed break some pieces chop them with your fingers, let them thaw for a few minutes and feed your fish.
Depending on your cooking skills this may sound like a lot, but it is well worthy and it will last for a few months, If you have any questions, please let me know, I'll be happy to help.
Rogger Castells
4 shrimp Lg 16/20 sz
3 scallops
4 mussels
3 squids
2 clams med
2 garlic cloves (process with the garlic press)
2 tspoon Cyclop-ezee. http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_fish_food_argent_cyclop-eeze.asp?CartId=
2 full squirts of selcon http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_additives_american_marine.asp?CartId=
2 pckg natural gelatine (find it by the baking items)
Mix all the ingredients except the gelatine in the food processor by pulsing it do not turn on the processor full blast cause it will totally make it in to paste, you want everything to be fine chopped. If you don't have a food processor you can do it the old fasshion way, sharp knive and cutting board!
Remove the mixture out into a large non metalic mixing bowl and set aside in the fridge.
On a different bowl combine the 2 Natural gelatin packages in a 1/2 cup of cold r/o water and then add 3/4 cup of boiling r/o water mix well and let it cool to room temperature.
Bring your seafood mixture out of the fridge and start incorporating the gelatin mixture liquid little by little until you get it well mix you will not use all the gelatin mix.
Place all this mixture into 1 or 2 large zip-lock bags, place flat on your counter and with your hands try to make it into a thin sheet free of air, seal the bag and place it in the freezer.
when is time to feed break some pieces chop them with your fingers, let them thaw for a few minutes and feed your fish.
Depending on your cooking skills this may sound like a lot, but it is well worthy and it will last for a few months, If you have any questions, please let me know, I'll be happy to help.
Rogger Castells
Rogger Castells
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it is mostly to hold the food together and ensure that the fishes will ingest cyclopeeze and garlic otherwise in my experience the cyclop just floats all over and usually gets trap in the surface and sucked into the overflows and the garlic will be ignored as it probably does not taste like food to them, it also helps to avoid the cloudynes at feeding time.
I've heard that gelatin is not good because it is an animal product and so on, there is another product like gelatin called agar that is widely used in the food business but personally gelatin has work good for me and my fishes thrive and breed in my tanks so I have no reason to think that.
I've heard that gelatin is not good because it is an animal product and so on, there is another product like gelatin called agar that is widely used in the food business but personally gelatin has work good for me and my fishes thrive and breed in my tanks so I have no reason to think that.
Rikko
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I do about the same as most people.. I buy everything as fresh as possible and add some choice supplements from "the shelf". I try to avoid commercial (especially dry) foods as they are largely preserved with ethoxyquin and I'm not convined at all that they have no detrimental effects - if it's banned in human and dog foods now, I tend to distrust it.
got2lb
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Def. some good ones there. A few questions for you all.
Do you all just get you shrimp/clams/etc.. from the grocery store?
A few have said tuna. Now is this fresh tuna are we talking Chicken of the sea tuna in a can?
Is it cost benneficial or does it cost you more to make your own over the prepared foods?
Thanks for all the info so far!
Do you all just get you shrimp/clams/etc.. from the grocery store?
A few have said tuna. Now is this fresh tuna are we talking Chicken of the sea tuna in a can?
Is it cost benneficial or does it cost you more to make your own over the prepared foods?
Thanks for all the info so far!
mmmmsushi
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you can find the shrimp and clams in the meat section in the back of most grocery stores. As well as Tuna steaks. you want uncooked unprocessed and unpreserved food. Avoid frozen stuff, although fresh frozen may not have preservatives.
Chicken of the sea is cooked and has preservatives in it so wouldn't really be a good choice for fish.
I haven't really done it for long term food but I believe if you make it in a large quantity it will last for a while and be cost effective.
Chicken of the sea is cooked and has preservatives in it so wouldn't really be a good choice for fish.
I haven't really done it for long term food but I believe if you make it in a large quantity it will last for a while and be cost effective.
Rogger Castells
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I try to avoid fish in my recipe specially tuna and salmon due their high fat content and it is usually hard to mince this food as it will become a paste as you chopped it.
I usually will buy fresh from the seafood market however, I will freeze it before chopping to make it easier to cut small pieces.
As far of cost it is benifical as long as you don't have to buy a whoe pound of anything and just use a few oz. for the food. Just go to your seafood supermarket area and ask specifically for 4 shrimp, 3 scallops etc..... they will look at you wondering what yu are going to do with 4 shrimp, but will sell it to you any way
I usually will buy fresh from the seafood market however, I will freeze it before chopping to make it easier to cut small pieces.
As far of cost it is benifical as long as you don't have to buy a whoe pound of anything and just use a few oz. for the food. Just go to your seafood supermarket area and ask specifically for 4 shrimp, 3 scallops etc..... they will look at you wondering what yu are going to do with 4 shrimp, but will sell it to you any way
got2lb
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Well I went to Super Wal-Mart (it's either that or Hy-vee not much selection in Iowa) 
today and looked at their seafood. They had squid and scallops and shrimp. What kind of scallops? They had Bay scallops and some other type of scallops. They also had a bag of mussles in the freezer part. They had a package sitting in the refrigerated part with a mixture of a bunch of stuff "squid,shrimp, maybe crab meat?) and it was only like $6 I just about bought it to chop up but then I realized it was precooked. Does that make a big difference?
today and looked at their seafood. They had squid and scallops and shrimp. What kind of scallops? They had Bay scallops and some other type of scallops. They also had a bag of mussles in the freezer part. They had a package sitting in the refrigerated part with a mixture of a bunch of stuff "squid,shrimp, maybe crab meat?) and it was only like $6 I just about bought it to chop up but then I realized it was precooked. Does that make a big difference?
Rogger Castells
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Yes, it does, do not buy the seafood medley, it is usually all the rejects packed in a convenient pack!
Rogger Castells
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Also, I usually put the frozen pieces of this food in a vegie clip with a little plastic screen, as the foods melts the fishes feed right out of there.
