I want to make some frozen food for my fish. I want it to give my fish all the nutrients they need to condition them and get them nice and fat and full of eggs! I tried making my own food before with one of the receipes online but it turned out to be horrible. I think i used shrimp, peas, carrots and throw some high quality flake food in it as well and mixed it all up in a blender. The problem was that the fish didnt like it, and it all fell apart in the water! Any suggestions for a good conditioning food i can make that my fish will attack and how to get it to stay together?
DIY frozen food
- Thread starter cgronko
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dunno what kind of fish you have.. but all of mine enjoyed the heck out of the stuff my gf made the other day
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228380
everyone but my dat.. but hes a prick
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228380
everyone but my dat.. but hes a prick
I recently made a frozen food for my fish that they love, I used one package of fresh smelt, I think it was about a 1 1/2 lbs - 2 lbs, about 1/4 lbs of beef liver, 5 sheets of Nori (seaweed sheets for making sushi) and one box of knox unflavored gelatin. I also ground up and threw in 3 one a day women's vitamins (my wife's and they have extra calcium).
Any ways I boiled the nori sheets in about 1/2 cup of water to reconstitute it. I chopped the smelt up with one of those vidalia chop wizard (I wouldnt recommend it cause it was pain and a mess) You could probably blend it tho. Same thing with the beef liver. I boiled the gelatin (all four packets) in 1 cup of water(this is far less than the directions on the box say on purpose), then mixed every thing together. After that I put some plastic wrap over a cookie sheet poured it in and stuck it in the freezer.
After it gelled up, I cut it into cubes and stuck it in the freezer. my fish love it and its super easy to feed to them.
ps the gelatin holds the cube together so it doesnt make as a big of a mess.
Any ways I boiled the nori sheets in about 1/2 cup of water to reconstitute it. I chopped the smelt up with one of those vidalia chop wizard (I wouldnt recommend it cause it was pain and a mess) You could probably blend it tho. Same thing with the beef liver. I boiled the gelatin (all four packets) in 1 cup of water(this is far less than the directions on the box say on purpose), then mixed every thing together. After that I put some plastic wrap over a cookie sheet poured it in and stuck it in the freezer.
After it gelled up, I cut it into cubes and stuck it in the freezer. my fish love it and its super easy to feed to them.
ps the gelatin holds the cube together so it doesnt make as a big of a mess.
As posted earlier on MFK in a different thread:
Per a fish farmer in Florida:
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.
Per a fish farmer in Florida:
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.
