Beef Heart?

[srikamaraja]

Turkey Liver and Beefheart are great for bulking up and growing out a cichlid, but some cichlids just don't find Beefheart appetizing. I often have to remove most or all of the beefheart before it rots. Turkey liver, on the other hand, is taken greedily.

Beefheart: great high-protein feed, but my Satanoperca just don't like it...

 

[Ullopincrate]

I use it for the protein content with my discus

 

[Stump]

I really don't get these kind of statements at all. There's a ton of people on here claiming beefheart is not natural so you should not feed it or that fish cannot digest it. Exactly what in our diets is natural? Is pizza of hotdogs natural for us? I use beefheart/turkey heart/deer heart all the time with nothing but positive results. Your statement about discus is complete nonsense. Tank bred discus (the ones raised mainly on beefheart that you mock) are extremely hardy. It's wild caught discus that are very sensitive and tough to keep.

I agree on all levels.

 

[darthodo]

I mix up a lot at a time:

2 large beef heart trimmed of fat and cubed (about 8-10 lbs)
5 lbs shrimp, shelled
5 lbs whiting fillet (any firm white meat fillet will do)
1 lb frozen green peas
1 lb frozen spinach
4 bulbs fresh garlic, pressed (not 4 cloves the whole thing)
1/4 box wheat germ
1/4 box baby oatmeal cereal
20 organic multi vitamins, crushed
10 Vitamin C, crushed
1/4 to 1/2 lb Spirulina flake food
3 or more bananas (Those black ones you just end up throwing away.)
I run all this thru a meat grinder 4-5 times until it has the consistency of gritty peanut butter and then place in baggies, press flat and freeze, no gelatin, no cooking. The oatmeal, wheat germ and flake food make it hold together.

Almost any seafood can be added
The last batch I made I used 8 venison hearts because I save them until the end of hunting season and find they do not have to be trimmed as they are very lean and seem to be easier to grind.
I mix up two bags of medicated food when I do this, one with Prazi and one with Metro so I have it when I need it.
This make about 20 to 25 lbs of food and last me a month.
This is my main food, I also feed frozen bloodworms, cichlid pellets, cichlid growth flakes, color flakes and spirilina flakes.

And you accuse me of pampering MY fish? LOL.

 

[fishfarm]

It's basically an economical food, with pellets running $10 a lb even in bulk I can buy beefheart for $1.67 a lb, the other ingredients run the price up to about $2.50 a lb. It's high in protien and the fish love it, I have an electric grinder so it does not take too long to make. It will put weight on wild discus faster than anything else. My big centrals thrive on it. I don't feed it to Tropheus or mbuna, but just about everything else. Ken

 

[cchhcc]

so...my cousin had a pacu before and i remember them feeding it beef heart. I was just wondering is it nutritious for cichlids/fish? would it be a great addition to their daily diet? or should i not feed them this?

"Had" a pacu........ I wonder if the beefheart had anything to do with the "had" part since pacu eat fruits, nuts, and plants primarily?

 

[cchhcc]

x2

 

[xylpheon]

ah ic...thanks for the replies everyone . i think i'll be getting some beef heart tomorrow to see if my jag will eat it.

"Had" a pacu........ I wonder if the beefheart had anything to do with the "had" part since pacu eat fruits, nuts, and plants primarily?

Poor fella died when the power went out My cousin lost his pacu and i lost my Silver arro I worked at Petsmart at the time too...i had the morning shift and the power went out for 2 hours while i was at work. As soon as i got home my Silver Arro was belly up and right then i received a call from my cousin saying his Pacu didnt make it through the power outage

 

[cchhcc]

Ooooo. That's too bad. Tough to lose a fish that way, but we've all had our mishaps, haven't we?