whos making home made fish food

[joewallace2008]

Recipes cost per batch
and also what can I feed a brittle starfish from the grocery store
thanks every one

 

[renogaw]

a few uncooked shrimp
a few muscles
a few chopped clams
a little bit of cod
a little bit of salmon
a little bit of scallops
a little nori or sea veggies
whatever else you can grab at the seafood department

blend in a little chopper

spread on wax paper, freeze. break off chunks as needed and feed

looks like this, smells horrid if made right

 

[joewallace2008]

Do u ever add garlic too?

 

[sassAwrasse]

i'd love to hear other recipes as well. we are thinking of making our own food and adding supplements...

 

[Useful_Idiot]

Don't use a fatty or oily fish. I did on my last batch or maybe I just used too much and it kills my skimmer for most of the day. If you use any kind of fish roe rinse it well it most have dye on them. And spread it thin on the wax sheets or it'll be tough to break into small enough pieces.

 

[DLANDINO]

I do it about once a year. Shrimp, scallops, tillapia, nori, and a bunch of filter feeder foods like microvert and zooplex and cyclopeeze. Blend it fine and press it flat in a ziplock and freeze. The fish and my old corals loved it.

 

[epstein]

I use same recipie as Dave.... But add Vita c and amino acids and usually broccoli or leafy stuff

 

[sdheath]

Been using this recipe for more than 4 years now. Lots of other people have tried it with good feedback.

http://www.ctars.org/default.aspx?uc=Articles/stevesFoodWorkshopRecipe

The cost is ridiculously cheap when compared to any prepared food. The only downside aside from the smell is the funny looks you get at the seafood counter when you ask for things like two scallops, five shrimp, 1 clams, etc.

 

[LeslieP]

I'll also mince up some fresh garlic and add it in along with cyclopeez, oyster feast and Selcon to the other ingredients mentioned. But I drop small blobs onto a cookie sheet and freeze it, then I put the clumps into a baggie in the freezer so I don't have to break pieces off of a larger block. Works well until you lose power and the freezer defrosts . . .

 

[BlueChip]

Any suppliements other that the filter feeder stuff?

The vita c -- pill form chopped up??

Or does it come in liquid? Special pet store stuff, or over the counter at a walgreens type place?

 

[sdheath]

Any suppliements other that the filter feeder stuff?

The vita c -- pill form chopped up??

Or does it come in liquid? Special pet store stuff, or over the counter at a walgreens type place?

You can get vitamin C in powder form at vitamin places like GNC, that's teh easiest.

 

[joewallace2008]

This is great. Thanks everyone

 

[renogaw]

garlic is useless to put in the food then freeze, only fresh garlic has the medicinal properties, so you can always mince the garlic before feeding...

 

[BlueChip]

Any others... Going to make some today

 

[sassAwrasse]

so we found mini ice cube trays at stop and shop. The ones featured on the top are just about the same size as the blister packs from the LFS. The ones on the bottom are a bit bigger.

We filled the mini tray four times and the bigger tray twice. Lots of fish food off of 4 lbs of fish. we used scallops, squid, cod, and flounder. fresh garlic. some of the batches we added nori as well. cost was about $12.

 

[megadeth72]

I use whatever fresh stuff I can get, along with quite a bit of cyclopeze and selcon

yes the skimmer goes crazy for a day, i run carbon most of the time so that helps, we target feed the lps and softies that eat directly every other day

I do not add garlic as I do not believe any of the claims around it, I feed the corals not the fish, the fish get leftovers

 

[BlueChip]

Inus and gunn beer --- mmmmm

Made a bunch today... Found vita C power -- 25 bucks -- passed. On that!!

 

[Captainfester]

Does blending fish mess up the blender? I have a new blender and don't want to chance ruining it.

 

[megadeth72]

no blending food does not mess up your blender lol

 

[Captainfester]

Don't want tuna flavored margaritas come may 5th