Home made food, anyone else?

[Carg R]

I've only made two full batches of fish food & would just like to share what I'm doing & hear from the rest of you.

I followed Marc Elieson's European Shrimp mix for the first batch. Worked well, my pearsei, silver dollars, pseudo. crabro, venustus, and even a pike sucked it down.

The second batch is very similar, but I didn't want to use as much gelatin & I added some very finely shredded carrots (before I blended the entire batch) hoping to get more color out of the fish.

So now I'm putting in the following:

1/2 shrimp (whole and spiny)
1/4 peas (cheap frozen)
1/4 carrots

a few drops of liquid bird vitamins

1 tsp Spirulina Powder

and gelatin. I got the kind that comes in small packets & says to add 3-4 to 3/4 cup cold water (mix thoroughly) then add one cup "very hot/boiling" water, but I only add 1-2 packets of the stuff.

I was wondering if I'd be alright just sprinkling a packet in the blender without the water?

As mentioned I shred the carrots separately, thaw the peas & shrimp a little then blend the crap out of it all (I bought I blender specifically for the food-so my wife doesn't have to worry about me not completely washing out the shrimpy-fishy stink).

After it's a fine paste I make the gelatin mix & dump it in too. Every goes into freezer-zip-lock bags and into the fridge. It hardens up in a few hours then I use a spatula & divide it into cubes (through the bag) and freeze it.

Does anyone else have examples of a home made food that works well for them?

 

[carolinafishkeeper]

Interesting, never thaught of that is it cheaper than store bought?

 

[Wolf3101]

I get asked about food a lot for my wolves. My normal reply goes something like this...

We feed a specialy formulated diet consisting of complex carbohyrates, advanced protiens, omega 3 and 9, fats and a perfect ballance of trace elements...Most people just call it by it's common name...meat.

The closer you stick to any species natural diet the better off you'll be in the long run. Humans don't really "Know better" than nature when it comes to nutrition...we only think we do.

 

[wangster11235]

ive made food before, but i think my grandma just threw it all out since i cant find it, and she cleaned out the freezer

 

[Tongue33]

What some of Carg R's other home made food looks like in my Fish

 

[Morledzep]

i don't necessarily "make" food for the fish, i mostly just cut up bigger hunks of stuff when i do anything at all with it.

the tuna hunks get cut up into bite size pieces for all the various sizes of peacock bass, oscars and the redtailed cat of course gets the larger pieces (because she has a BIG mouth). Same with hunks o beef heart, turkey hearts, chicken hearts she eats whole, everyone else i have to cut them into quarters or smaller.

the big fish mostly don't eat the small food like bloodworms or brine shrimp, i drop a frozen block into the big fish tanks once in awhile so the crayfish and crabfu have some variety.

 

[bigspizz]

I try to feed them stuff like minced lean beef they like that o.k. but they wont take much else besides organ meats, they looooove earth worms. All my fish want is another live fish! I wish they would eat veggies, they don't even take a second look.

 

[dragonfish]

Beefheart, shrimp, catfish nuggets and a green veggie like peas chopped and mixed together. Spoon into ice cube trays and freeze.

 

[BadDogsPa]

All my cichlids love chopped up shrimp and fish pieces. I fed some dove bird heart after hunting season last year. All time favorites are earthworms,and meal worms for the little ones. Will worms hurt them feeding alot? i still feed some cichlid pellets too.

 

[X24]

my 10 gallon inhabitants are on a staple of high quality flake, freeze dried blood worm and freeze dried shrimp. But often they get earthworms, frozen mysis shrimp, frozen blood worm, frozen market shrimp, frozen fish fillet and frozen peas.

my 29 gallon gets live fish for my leaf (trying to get him off the stuff), brine shirmp pellets, algea wafers, cichlid pellets, freeze dried blood worm and shrimp, frozen mysis shrimp, frozen blood worm, frozen market shrimp, frozen fish fillet, earth worms, crickets, flies, spiders, basically any insect or spider that wonders around and is catchable.