After reading a book that included a recipe and then stumbling upon another recipe on Melevsreef, I decided it was time to give it a try. I have been going back and forth between various high qaulity flakes, frozens, and pellets... and I have never really felt like my fish have had good growth rates. For all I know, I could just be sustaining them, and not actually nourishing them.
I am lucky enough to have an asian food supermarket near where I work. I can get bulk packages of nori for 8 bucks, mixed bags of seafood for 3 bucks (mix of cuttlefish, squid, mussels, and shrimp), and a package of smelt for around 3 bucks. I added mysis shrimp, a palm-full of pellets, tube of cyclop-eze, a generous pinch of spirulina, a sheet of nori, and a good serving of kent zoe. Some selcon would be a good (well, better) replacement for the zoe.
I do a rough chop of all the frozen food before putting it in the food processor, pulse it until I have a particle size that my fish can handle, and add small amounts of tank water if the mix trys to cake up. After that, they go into the candy molds I bought from a craft store so I have manageable servings ready to go for feeding.
While I think the mix smells absolutely disgusting, my fish love it. The fish go nuts, and so does the sand bed. The upfront cost is more, but given the amount you have after making a batch, it probably a break even or comes out slightly cheaper.
I am lucky enough to have an asian food supermarket near where I work. I can get bulk packages of nori for 8 bucks, mixed bags of seafood for 3 bucks (mix of cuttlefish, squid, mussels, and shrimp), and a package of smelt for around 3 bucks. I added mysis shrimp, a palm-full of pellets, tube of cyclop-eze, a generous pinch of spirulina, a sheet of nori, and a good serving of kent zoe. Some selcon would be a good (well, better) replacement for the zoe.
I do a rough chop of all the frozen food before putting it in the food processor, pulse it until I have a particle size that my fish can handle, and add small amounts of tank water if the mix trys to cake up. After that, they go into the candy molds I bought from a craft store so I have manageable servings ready to go for feeding.
While I think the mix smells absolutely disgusting, my fish love it. The fish go nuts, and so does the sand bed. The upfront cost is more, but given the amount you have after making a batch, it probably a break even or comes out slightly cheaper.
I'd be scared to go in again.