Home made Cichla food

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Ramesh

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I recently made some home made fish food for my baby Monos after some advice from a recently buyer of my fry.

I had about 80 baby Monos and had sold 5 to a buyer who was feeding his fish with his home made fish food.
He rang me recently about picking up more as he has never had Peacock bass and has fallen in love.
I was shocked when he told me his fish where 8-10cm while my remaining fish were between 4-5cm.

I wanted to know if anyone else feeds their Cichla home made food?
 
Ramesh said:
I recently made some home made fish food for my baby Monos after some advice from a recently buyer of my fry.

I had about 80 baby Monos and had sold 5 to a buyer who was feeding his fish with his home made fish food.
He rang me recently about picking up more as he has never had Peacock bass and has fallen in love.
I was shocked when he told me his fish where 8-10cm while my remaining fish were between 4-5cm.

I wanted to know if anyone else feeds their Cichla home made food?
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Very nice would like to know the recipe if you are willing!!!
 
The recipe is not that complicated 500g of lean beef, whole prawns (shrimp), and good aquality fish food pellet, 2 cups of peas and a bunch of silver beet, half a clove of garlic,
100g gelatin.
All ingredients need to be unfrozen and at room temp, dissolve the gelatin in boiling water and add to the other ingredients, mixing through, combining everything really well.
I used a hand bender and just blended the whole lot. It is a good idea to dice the beef and prawns before blending.
The mixture should be blended into a fine paste and then put into a ziplock freezer bag at the desired thickness and put in the freezer.
You can add spirulina and vitamins but I think with the pellets added that the recipe should be fine.
 
Ramesh said:
The recipe is not that complicated 500g of lean beef, whole prawns (shrimp), and good aquality fish food pellet, 2 cups of peas and a bunch of silver beet, half a clove of garlic,
100g gelatin.
All ingredients need to be unfrozen and at room temp, dissolve the gelatin in boiling water and add to the other ingredients, mixing through, combining everything really well.
I used a hand bender and just blended the whole lot. It is a good idea to dice the beef and prawns before blending.
The mixture should be blended into a fine paste and then put into a ziplock freezer bag at the desired thickness and put in the freezer.
You can add spirulina and vitamins but I think with the pellets added that the recipe should be fine.
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Awsome think i will give it a try have tried beef before tho the Beef is to greasy for me i will substitute with another fish of some sort... thank you Ramesh...
 
there is a thread on this some where else. Thefishwrestler had a recipe as well that he said worked wonders for picky fish. A little diff recipe tho.
 
I love Hikari fish foods but this and other recipes are cheaper and more nutritious.
The only drawback is that they are messier than the pellets.
 
gday ramesh,

glad you liked the recipe mate. how are your fish liking it? i have put up a few pics of my bass.

cheers
 
I use a similar recipe but i use Tilapia instead of beef.
 
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