Any good recipe for home made fish food?

[TOYMAN357]

I am tired of spending money on the little 8oz packs of the frozen foods for the fish. I was wondering and good recipes and procedures of mixing up a food processor full of scallops,shrimp ect? Also anything we should not feed from the fish market?

[omni2226]

Here is a great coral food, cheap and easy. (Good for fish too)

Look in your deli/seafood department at the grocery store.
Buy a 10 or 12 oz bag of "Fresh Frozen Seafood Mix"
It usally has raw Squid, Octopus, Shrimp, Clam and Fish.
Put this in a blender with NO water. (Drain the juice in the bag.)
Place blender on high/puree and forgot about it for 10 minutes. You want a liquified mush with little tiny bits and peices.
Pour/scoop into freezer bags and lay them flat and thin in the freezer.
To feed break off a peice about the size of your thumbnail and thaw it in a cup with some tankwater. Turn off all pumps. Dribble across the top of the water so it can sink slowly.

To target feed simply use a turkey baster and squirt a small cloud of food just above/around the animal.

Now the hard part....go watch TV or take a shower, eat dinner play games or whatever for 20 minutes.
Turn the closedloop/powerheads on for a few minutes, then turn the sump/filter pumps back on. Easy and simple and 12 oz of seafood mix makes enough coral/fish food to last for a long time.

[TOYMAN357]

So you think basically anything from the ocean can be fed to the reef fish, clams mussells,fish,scallops,shrimp, as long as it is raw and cut up small enough.

[omni2226]

I dont see why not, Its what most fish and corals eat in the wild.
Even the so called plankton eating corals eat meaty foods.

As long as its raw and from the sea toss it in the blender. Guts shells and all. Bone sof small sardine type fish too. Its a good source of calcium for fish since they cant adsorb/absorb it from the water.

[reefshadow]

my recipe is similar to omnis, but i add a little selcon and some crushed garlic. the frozen seafood mix i use is in 1 pound bags and has raw oyster, clam, squid, octopus, and fish. i also add shell-on shrimp.

you'll want to start kind of slow with a recipe like this if you don't feed alot now. since it is partially liquefied, it will add somewhat to your bio load.

sorry about no caps- my shift isn't working- time for a new keyboard i guess

[melev]

Eric Borneman has a great recipe in his "Corals" book, and I have one on my website as well. You've pretty much included the basics, but I like to throw in other stuff as well.

I'll add Spirulina Powder & Golden Pearls (Brine Shrimp Direct), ReefRoids (PolypLabs), RotiRich (Florida Aqua Farms), shredded sheets of Nori, small pellet food, frozen Cyclop-Eeze, phytoplankton... you name it, if it is in my reef pantry, it's in the mix.

[fishbaiter]

This is great info!

[TOYMAN357]

I am going to try it out this week end. I have saved a bunch of the cube trays from the frozen assortments I buy at lfs. This would sava alot and would be better for the fish.

[omni2226]

Ya I left out the fresh garlic and garbonzos...not sure how I did that.
I also vary the feeding a bit with shrimp pellets and Omega flakes for marine fish.
As a treat I thaw out some frozen silversides once a week.
Adding selcon is a good idea too.

[Gluestick]

The recipe on Melev's reef is what I use, and it's good.

[sublime-1]

www.melevsreef.com/food.html

[jhuggins]

Man, I love that site.

[funkyman]

You can also smear your blended product into a piece of egg crating to make the food into cubes.

[melev]

Thanks Josh. :)

[glaudds]

I freeze my blended product in these mini ice cube trays...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b60/GLAUDDS/CIMG0006.jpg

[green_frogspawn]

good stuff there glaudds, those should last a while :)

[kylecanada]

Where can you find those mini ice cube trays?

[glaudds]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10101934#post10101934 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kylecanada
Where can you find those mini ice cube trays?

Here you go...
http://www.wdrake.com/WalterDrake/Shopping/ProductDetail.aspx?CID=Kitchen&SCID=Refrigerator+%26+Freezer&ProductID=1004526&SiteNum=0

[mojoreason]

love that mini tray ... GREAT IDEA! i had previously frozen mine in a ziplock bag laying flat so i could break it off easily like those flat packs you get at the LFS

[glaudds]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10104758#post10104758 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mojoreason
love that mini tray ... GREAT IDEA! i had previously frozen mine in a ziplock bag laying flat so i could break it off easily like those flat packs you get at the LFS

The trays work real well. I make a big batch of food and fill about 6 trays and store them in the freezer. I found there is less freezer burn with the food stored in the trays also. I just break out one tray at a time as I need them and store the food cubes in a zip lock bag.

[kylecanada]

Great Thanks