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Old 12/16/2007, 06:45 PM
jnarowe jnarowe is offline
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I forgot about the krill...

Steve, if you look at the recipes though, you can easily eliminate the expensive hobby items. And the "human" food really isn't. It's seafood.

Regarding Marc's recipe, I got mine basically from him. He had a cool videocast of it a while back. But I do not like putting in pellet foods or powdered spirulina. The whole reason why i make this food is to stay away from pellet and flake food which incorporates too much phosphate and nitrate, and has very little solid food value.

The primary issue is that flake and pellet foods aren't real food in a sense. They cost a fortune per ounce vs. using frozen foods, regardless of whether you are using "people" food or fish food.

Plus you know exactly what your fish are getting and you can tweak it with vitamins you are comfortable with. Volume wise I use about 60 - 70% "human" food in my mix.
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