Homemade Fish Food

[divetroop]

I attempted to make my own fish food and it came out like clay. It looked pretty bad. Had the consistency of wet mashed potatoes. I used freshed peeled shrimp, scallops, clams, and octopus. I put all of the ingredients in a blender, not a food processor. I blended the ingredients for a couple of seconds. After blending, it look pretty much like mud. You wouldn't be able to tell if there was any actual seafood in it. :notsure: I know I couldn't feed it to my fish.
Where did I go wrong? Should I use a food processor. Also, does anyone have any pics of the finish product. That would help out a lot. :happyfish

 

[oozy]

i just made some my self, i hand chopped, but as i found out my "mush" was not fine enough.
feed it to them and see how they like it, remember to freeze it, then give them a cube of it.
-oozy-

 

[jhebi]

Originally Posted by divetroop
I attempted to make my own fish food and it came out like clay. It looked pretty bad. Had the consistency of wet mashed potatoes. I used freshed peeled shrimp, scallops, clams, and octopus. I put all of the ingredients in a blender, not a food processor. I blended the ingredients for a couple of seconds. After blending, it look pretty much like mud. You wouldn't be able to tell if there was any actual seafood in it. :notsure: I know I couldn't feed it to my fish.
Where did I go wrong? Should I use a food processor. Also, does anyone have any pics of the finish product. That would help out a lot. :happyfish
what you can do, you can out inside a zip lock bag and freeze it or just try to find a ice cube tray and just pour in there an freeze it....
And than when you want to feed your fishes just take a piece and give to them....
Dont worry if it looks like mud or very wet.......After you make your own food you freeze it and than just use it when feeding the fishes

Oh and also if you can add some Garlic juice, cyclofreeze and also some Zoecon....it will help a lot, oh an ddont forget those seaweed =)

 

[chipmaker]

What works good for putting homebrew fish food into for freezing is a piece of egg crate, laid inside a flat bottom caserole dish or other container. Spoon the fish food into the egg crate and smooth off the top with a knife, place in freeze.. Once frozen, just take it out for a few minutes, and turn grid upside down and tap on side of bowl or container, and the small cubes of frozen feed falls out of the eggcrate....Repeat process again until y9u got all the food yu made frozen and made into the 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 inch cubes. Then just put all those little food cubes in a zip lock.....makes feeding very easy. (egg crate if you look at it close has one edge that is wider than the other, so this allows easy popping out of the frozen cubes.

 

[my way]

Could he mix it with unflavored gelatin? I don't know myself But that would hold it together so when thawed it would'nt "dissolve" in the tank if it was blended to fine?

 

[chipmaker]

I really do ot think your gonna be able to blend it all that fine so there is not some larger particles left. Guess it all depends on the size of the fish as well, but my inverts like shrroms and polyps seem to enjoy the fine particles that land on them as well as they get pretty active at feeding time as well....

 

[danedodger]

Maybe it's just because of the liquid that came out of the meat when you put it through the blender? I'd say try pulsing the blender instead of just running it even for a few seconds then put a smidge into a cup of water to see what it looks like when it disperses. Very often something that comes out looking like total liquid mush has some surprisingly large particles of food in it once it disperses into the water.