DIY Fish food Help! What tool to use?

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Jesseliu13

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DIY fish food is going to be a small project i wanna do myself for fun. But I have attempted before but had gone through2 blenders making the project incomplete and a failure. But I wanna try it again!

I was wondering... Should I use a Food processor? or should i go try another blender... The blenders i ahve used before started smoking and smelled extremely bad burning smell prob from motor....

Ingredients I will try this time. It is similar to Monster Peacocks.

Daily multi vitamins (supplements for enough nutrition)
carrots (color enhancer, fiber)
peeled shrimp (color enhancer, filler, low grade protein)
cheap fish fillets (high grade protein, filler)
garlic powder (immune system booster, parasite cleaner/preventer)
Whole wheat flour (starch to keep all ingredients together, added fiber)
Oatmeal flour (quaker oats just blended into a powder, added fiber and protein)
freeze dried blood worms (more attractive flavor... not for nutrition)
Freese Dried Crickets (added protein and for more atttractice flavor)

:screwy: also I have this idea. I go fishing ALOT. especially at sea... So i catch fish all the time. some i throw back, some i keep..
But a fish i recently found that maybe worth keeping is the famous fish treated as trash here in NJ. The Sea Robin. I have tried to eat this fish before... Its not that bad in my opinion... Its white meat, and SeaRobins (aka gurnard) are omnivores... eating seaweeds and mostly crustateans. Is it a good idea to use this fish meat as a filler as well?

Stock: (everything is still small, and i still have plenty of store bought foods. This is just a fun project, a test run for when my fish are giants)

Arowana
2 Clown knives
3 Clown Loaches
1 Large high fin pleco (15 inches.)
2 Oscars
1 ID shark
1 Endli Bichir (9 inches)
1 Blood Parrot

All fish excluding the Pleco are pretty small.
 
You need a real blender for that. Some cheap $50 piece of junk from Walmart will not handle the solid and viscosity.

I have not made fish food, but I have made similar thickness fillings for lasagna and stuff on my vitamix. They are the most expensive ($500) on the market because they are the best.


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i've used a blender without problems before and your ingredients seem good to me but i wold get rid of the flour or the oats, you really dont want to have both, and it really should just be used to keep everything together not as an acctual ingredient, aside from that i would also spend some money on spirulina IME if helps alot with fish color, its nice that more people are into DIY fish food, i wouldnt recomend it as a staple but as a nice treat :) have fun and good luck
 
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