Do it yourself food article

[wperiam]

I read your article on 'do-it-yourself' food and am interested to give this a try (in Brazil where I live the aquarium shops offer little in the way of frozen food preparations).

However, I have a doubt. Whenever I have read similar descriptions of recipes for food for various freshwater species, I have been concerned that the resulting food, when defrosted and placed in the aquarium, would disintegrate into a fine cloud of food particles with few food chunks capable of being eaten by the fish, with the result being pollution of the aquarium.

Is this a problem without using some kind of binding agent in the recipe? Or is the solution to only blend the ingredients a little?

I would appreciate your clarification.

Will Periam