Cheap Vitamin, garlic, and calcium supplements?

[musho3210]

ahh i see know

 

[Aislinn]

I dont know if theres a Chemist kicking about this forum...

I'm not a chemist (I work in accounting) but I have a friend who's a chemical engineer. For those who use cichlid salts, you can mix your own. I gave my friend some cichlid salt, and she broke it down for me. Here's how you make it:

10 gal. size Instant Ocean (or equivalent)
1/2 gal. epsom salt
3 oz. Morton salt substitute

Makes enough to fit a 1 gallon container. I keep mine in a plastic Rubbermaid jar with a screw top that I got at Walmart for about $2. I add 1 tsp. for every 5 gallons of water.

 

[nickmcmechan]

Word of warning on Human Vitamins, be careful if your dissolving the tablet. One of the most important parts of the tablet is actually the coating in a lot of cases, this dictates how it dissolves.

Without knowing the specifics of an individual tablets coating, I wouldn't use that method for fish

 

[legendaryfrog]

thanks nick. I didnt know that.

 

[kmail5776]

BH= Beef Heart

I purchase pre-trimmed BeefHeart from Stater Bros. I trim it sommore when I get home and run it through my Meat Grinder.

Along with BH, I will also mix in a pound of deveined shrimp, spirulina flakes, spirulina powder, astaxanthin, and crushed vitamins, crushed garlic, sometimes peas and spinach. Mix em' up and regrind them again. Oh..one envelope of gelatin binder..non flavored.

Freeze them up in 1lb baggies. My fish love it. It dirties your water a bit so I don't feed them BH all the time.

What brand gelatin binder do you use? Something like unflavored jello?

 

[greyhoundfan]

Hi Kmail, I use Knox.

Nick interesting info on the capsule coating.

 

[nickmcmechan]

Hi Kmail, I use Knox.

Nick interesting info on the capsule coating.

I'm not a Pharmacist, but work in a major Chemist retailer over here, so get involved and a lot of training on that stuff.

Different substances are used in tablets for a number of reasons:

1. how quickly it dissolves
2. where it dissolves
3. some people react to different coatings and can have an allergy to this rather than the medicine itself.

Sorry if a little off topic, but if humans can react to these substances, then would worry about dissolving for fish...IMO. Would need a Pharmacist however to tell more about specific tablets themselves.