fish food on a budget?

[zeppelin3k]

Hello.

I was wondering if anybody has ideas or tricks to feeding there fish on a limited amount of money.
I spend alot of money for bloodworms, beefheart, brineshrimp, feeder fish that its getting out of controll.

i was wondering what you can do to cut the costs, i feed cichlids, so meet is a plus.

i have had a couple ideas but dont know if they would go through.

1. Could you buy your own beef heart from the meat market and cut/freeze your own peices of heart? Maybe grind them to a mush/paste first?

2. buying a huge bag of bloodworms, get them unthawed and put into an ice cube tray in equal portions. just pop out a cube and bam, all of the worms you need for the day! just an idea

i buy the cubed bloodworms and beefheart, feed my fish 4 bloodworms, 2 beef heart cubes a day.

I want to hear your ideas! please, let me know. Even if its just a thought like mine, i may just try it!

Thanks for reading and hopefully you post

-Zeppelin3K

 

[wataugachicken]

you might be able to special order it and have them grind it for you. might be a lot at one time in both amt. of meat and overall cost but save money over time.

 

[con-man-dan]

there are dozens of recipes and directions on how to make your own beefheart cubes online. You could also try and throw in some freeze dried worms/shrimp, they're usually a bit cheaper and go a little farther. Do you feed any type of staple foods? Flakes, bits or pellets? What kind of fish are you keeping? My fish all get a mix of several types of flake and pellet food, plus baby brine shrimp, live adult brine shrimp, live bloodwords and occasionally feeder fish (convict babies)

 

[zeppelin3k]

i will check it out online for some recipes. I have: Green terror, clown knife, red jewel, red empress, salivini, firemouth, tire track eel. They do not eat pellets, i have a bunch of bottles of them, i talked to wataugachicken, he/she reccommended me to get some omega, so i will pick up a bottle of that shortly. bloodworms and beef heart are my staples, they get that everyday, and i am very pleased at how healthy they are. Thanks for the idea, i will look into it!

 

[twig]

i add a pinch of cichlid pellets each day and keep live worms for every few days. I dont know how long I will keep a colony alive though thats something new.

I switched from flake to pellets for my boesmani rainbow when they got bigger. I used to feed them just flake with a bit of brine shrimp every day but i switched to pellets and frozen bloodworms ... now i am trying to feed live worms a cople times a week with a small pinch of pellets every day. Once a week i throw an algae tab in with a squished pea... *shrug* They eat my plants those little buggers.