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gnorman

gnorman

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last night i made my first batch of DIY Fish Food. i used raw shrimp, clam, oysters, mysis shrimp and nori sheets. i put some fresh garlic in the mix and put some vitamins; which also has garlic in the mixture.
when i fed them last night for the first time, our smaller fish ( green reef chromis and percs) loved it. they went right after it. the fish i made the mix for ( the Orange Tail Fiji Puffer and Raccoon Butterfly would go up, seem interested, maybe take a bite or two, and then spit it out.
is this normal when starting out on a new food, epically a DIY fish food such as i had made? will they learn to like it and indulge themselves in it? should i just give it time?
what is everyone experience with a DIY fish food?
thanks for your time
eric-
 
uberlink

uberlink

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I've had great luck with a very similar recipt, but some of my fish have taken longer to warm up to it than others. My hippo tang, who had always been fed flakes by his previous owner, took the longest--a period of weeks. But now he loves it more than anyone else. Give it some time.
That said, if you have vegetarians (not the fish you mentioned), you'll need to feed them something else. My rabbitfish won't touch the frozen food. He eats nori and Sprung's veggie flakes.
 
joojoo

joojoo

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Ya, just turn it into a mush, they'll swallow it.
When I made my first batch, I think I put too much garlic in, cuz everybody spit it back out... but idk.
 
gnorman

gnorman

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yeah im afraid i used too much garlic...
you just put everything in a blender and mix it right up. when your freeze it the food looks like mush, but when it goes in the water miraculously you get some big/perfect sized pieces in there... first time luck
i will just give it some time, i think all in all everything will be good in a week or so. i cant wait to see my female bluejaw trigger and my juvi emperor engulf themselves in it.... a couple more weeks till then
 
hatessushi

hatessushi

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I've been making diy fish food for a while now. when I put garlic in I just use one clove and grate it on a garlic card (credit card with punched t's and k's) which I found online for about 5 bucks and works perfect. I get about 6 good size drops of garlic juice out of one clove and mix that with the food. A little garlic goes a long way and the 6 drops works for about 4 sandwich size baggies of food spread out and frozen. When I first started feeding diy food the fish all went crazy. My trigger eats the whole chunk I throw in and he gets about 4 small chunks. when he is full he just crushes it and spits it out for the other fish and he eats smaller pieces then.
IMO it depends on how much garlic you use. If to much they may not like the overwhelming taste.
 
larryndana

larryndana

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yeah, i want to try beth's recipe but just worried that it will be chopped to small and just cloud the water. I think i just need to do it and see for myself.
i think that was her's i saw in the archives somewhere.
 
renogaw

renogaw

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i feed it to my sun corals as well, and my anenomes. my kole goes up to the sun coral and eats it out of the polyps LOL
 
gnorman

gnorman

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haha that would be so fun to watch.. yeah its not expensive a tall.. i think all together it was around 8 dollars or so. about the same for say mysis shrimp and in the DIY its a lot more beneficial
 
gnorman

gnorman

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thanks everyone for your help on the DIY fish food.
tonigth i went to go feed the fish and what a surprise... the butterfly actually started to feed on it. i am so excited that hes eating it now.
thanks to all for your help
eric-
 
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