my DIY food

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X24;1590593; said:
If i had the means i would sell it. Its working out very good and even though i made this batch a little TOO thick (expanded slightly and now the zipper on 2 of the 5 bags doesn't completely work, and also chunks have to be bitten off of it so its a little more messy then the one where they could swallow it whole)

Thinking about it, you could make a complete carnivore, a cichlid and a veggi formula sell each flat for $4 + S&H and probably make $1-2 a flat.

Buy the ingredients in bulk and you could probably cut the cost of manufacturing down and add a "professional" looking label.....but alas i don't have the time to do such a thing :grinno:
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It's amazing this forum... When you first posted your diy food mix was the same day I decided to make my own discus food. As an average mfk'er the savings are huge doing it your self it's well worth the trouble... plus you know exactly what is in the food


I may have too add 'uk's only importer of x24's food mix' into my sig with Tequlia's shovels it'd make millions :ROFL:
 
How is that stuff working for your discus? and what is a tequlia shovel? A mixed drink?
 
Mixed reactions. When I first made it up for a week or so they loved it but since then they seem to pick at it a bit and then leave it and pick at it again when it's fully broken down. They'll take it fine when hand fed, as soon as you let go they ignore it.

The reason I tried the home made stuff was they've not been eating a lot for a while, I have had problem after problem with that tank since around November last year when one died for seemingly no reason. With everything being right water wise I thought i could bring them back along again with the food why I was waiting to convert it to a planted tank from the bare bottom. As I write I'm waiting for the substrate to settle before planting, last roll of the dice so to speak.

A Tequlia shovel is a mythical shovel that member Tequlia was going to need to feed his red tail GGs if they kept eating at same increasing rate. It's a play on that, It's somewhere near the middle of the GG sticky thread but is referenced in many other posts on that thread.
 
I've been doing this for years.... It works great.

My recipe is a bit different:

Shrimp
Squid
Fish (white meat and on sale)
Garlic

I don't use gelatin. I just leave the pieces a little bigger and I use either flake or dried krill as a binder. This stuff never sits in the tank long enough to have any issues. It get devoured immediately.
 
Dont' know about arowanas but my Knives love it.
 
Not trying to hijack just share:

I made another batch, another member suggested that I should not use a frozen heart and then re-freeze it so I got a fresh one and did it again and you can tell the difference straight away, go anywhere near the tank and the fish are all at the top wanting feeding all by hand for over a week.:headbang2

I know this is posted in one of my threads but I'm not sure what to do here, link the page or post it again as it relates to both threads?
Ingredients:
One heart trimmed of all veins, skin etc.
12oz spinach
2 bananas
6 cloves of garlic
3 hand fulls of high protein pellets
3 hand fulls of flake(the binder)
5 multi vitamin tablets crushed
1 spirulina tab
Sprinkling of praprika

And the final product: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1635692&postcount=53

As for the old stuff my EEGG doesn't care about little things like frozen/refrozen it just enjoys eating anything;)

X24, did you ever make that second batch?
 
i'm really going for these one, but i have some questions..
do you really know for example what kind of veggi can bring better color or what meat could make my fish grow faster and stronger...maby vitamins that make em helthier or something like that..?

i'm keedping tanganyika cichlids ;)
 
gazella;1644562; said:
i'm really going for these one, but i have some questions..
do you really know for example what kind of veggi can bring better color or what meat could make my fish grow faster and stronger...maby vitamins that make em helthier or something like that..?

i'm keedping tanganyika cichlids ;)
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I have never kept them, but know a little about a little I've not kept so you could try a similar menus but include some sort of fish as a main ingredient to mimic as best you can the wild food but base it on what is good and cheap and readily available. Check the chiclids threads for better advise, see what people there feed, I know a lot of people make there own food differently for different fish so that would be my starting point.
 
How does the flake work for a binder? Fall apart easily or does it stay together better?

To answer the next question, just depending on their diet add different things. Tanganyika cichlids are mostly herbivores correct? Then go with minimal meat and lots of veggies. You can pretty much do any food in this mix and it should be good.
 
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