...all you great chefs of the world. I would like to compile some recipe's for homemade fish food and then archive them for others to see and use or expand on. Thanks!

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In this hobby patience is not a virtue,,,,,its mandatory.
Jim's Marine Links

This was submitted to me via e-mail by Bughead. She also included some tips on how she feeds. Thank you Linda.
Hi Jim,
No great chef here, not quite a good cook, either. But here's my fishie-food recipe.

I don't measure anything, so I'll just say a handful, more or less of the following:

Fresh or frozen uncooked
Shrimp (I use pealed, some ppl leave peal on)
Scallops
6 or 7 mussels
3 or 4 clams
several oysters (I don't use canned oysters)
Toss the (thawed) stuff in the blender. Blend until purreed. If you're feeding predators, you might want to leave it a little more coarse.

Take an envelope of unflavored gelatin and disolve in 1/4 cup of warm water or clam juice. Be careful not to let this "set" before you dump it in the blender. You'll end up with bits of hard, gummy things.

If this food is to be given to open water feeders, I wouldn't bother with the gelatin. I have tangs who like to graze, and I have a system of feeding I'll tell you about.

You can add nori or seaweed, like spirulena formula. I prefer to feed that seperately.

After all is blended, spread it on wax paper, cover and freeze. I save my empty packs of frozen Formula foods and put my blended food in so it makes nice little squares.

I don't add Selcon to the mix either. I prefer to do that each morning so I know how much they're getting. Also, I don't feed the homemade food every day. Dry pellets really soak up the Selcon nicely.

OK, here's how I feed the "tang-tank".
I take a small rock or large shell. A piece of coarse netting about 6" square and a plastic clip or rubber band.

Lay the netting out on a paper plate. Take 2 cubes of thawed food, or pellets, or whatever you're feeding, and lay it in the center of the net. Put the Selcon (and garlic if you're using it)into the food. You can put a little sheet of nori or dried seaweed on top of the food. Put the rock or shell on top of the food and wrap the net around it and fasten with the clip.

Set the food-rock in the sand or on top of a decoration. As the tangs pull the food off, a lot of particles get loose so the open water feeders get a good share too.

I know that's more than you asked for, but that's how i do it.
Linda


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In this hobby patience is not a virtue,,,,,its mandatory.
Jim's Marine Links

The supermarket by me sells seafood scrape= squid,shrimp,calms ect.. for $0.89 lbs so thats a good deal. If they don't happen to have any i buy various seafoods. I get spinurila/kelp flake from brineshrimp direct also decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, naturose astaxanthin powder. They add this too commercial food to enchance color in fish. I also add spinurila powder. I add frozen brocolli also. My fish are 2 tangs and 1 fox thus the need for high veggies. The meaty foods are for my chromis , corals, LS and scavangers. I mix the blender with half the seafood and add alot of the other stuff blend in to a liquid. Then I add the rest and some more of the veggies and blend so that is chunky. I freeze it in different packages and then put them in a big container so not to get freezer burn. When I feed I try to add stuff that will feed my whole tank. the stuff from brineshrimp is enriched with vits and the fresh stuff should help also. It really doesn't matter what you use it depend on your animals and you can make various foods but the spinurila and decapsulated brine shrimp eggs I alway add. I don't add geletin or yeast. I just feed it frozon and it breaks up fine. The flake binds it.

I get some fresh squid(a little bit tough), shrimp, fish, assorted mussels and bivalves, fish eggs, crab eggs and meat, nori. blend them up to a semi puree. put a tablespoon in a piece of small plastic and add water then freeze. every morning, i just break a piece of it and let it float until it will melt slowly. i also feed flakes once in a while.

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In this hobby patience is not a virtue,,,,,its mandatory.
Jim's Marine Links

Now that you mention it, I have been working at my webpage about this. The page is still under construction, but here it goes:
http://www.wyx.com/iheo/tank/food.htm



Joaco



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