Home Made Fish Food...

[kyazh]

I have 4 angels and I feed them Flake food regularly. I have some blood worms and floating pellets too, I try to give them as much variety as I can. I was wondering if I can make my own food? Maybe some stuff I might have in the fridge that fish like. Anyone have any recipies? Thanks for any help!

 

[mooman]

Threre are a ton of recipes out there. Most involve using a blender to puree different mixtures of shrimp, fish, vitamins, veggies......... held together with geletin as a binder. Never tried them personally (seems like a lot of work). I think it's easier to just feed a good pellet/flake food, and a variety of frozen (bloodworms, mysis shrimp, white mosquito larva, cyclops-ezz, baby brine shrimp........). Pick two or three (I use bloodworms and mysis primarily) and rotate through them.

Marine One makes a frozen food similar to hobbiest formulas. I feed this occationally, but it needs to be chopped up, and fed very sparingly so that you don't foul the water.

 

[kyazh]

anyone know where I can get these recipies? How bout veggies? I heard you can feed fish cooked vegies or something? how does this work? Thanks for any help!

 

[ljse]

From what I have heard about the veggies, you just microwave them for a few seconds in a dish with water so they are soft and then you throw it in the tank with some kind of weight to sink it.

 

[mooman]

here's a link to the recipe that Ad Koning uses for African Cichlids. I imagine a little tweeking (little more shrimp, little less vegies) would make it ideal for most tropical fish.

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/food_recipes.php

 

[Tightdog1]

i've heard in the past the you can boil cucumbers and other veggies and then toss them in the tank, never tried it personally, but heard of people doin it.

 

[OneCuteShasta]

I've be looking in to making my own fish food. :read: I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but here's some links. Most are for cichlids, but you could play with the recipes. I hope this helps!

http://www.nwstar.com/~sas/art15.htm
http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/foodsandfeeders/
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/food_recipes.php
http://www.sydneycichlid.com/content/?page_id=19
http://www.gregwatson.com/HowToMakeHomemadeFishFood.htm

 

[OneCuteShasta]

I forgot to mention, some of the recipes call for spinach but don't use that. Substitute any greens like mustard green, collard greens, etc. The spinach pulls calcium out of the fish.

 

[dorkfish]

I feed table shrimp and different veggies(usually cucumber and lettuce) on a regular basis. as for a home made fish food, personally I would just through veggies and shrimp and fish into my tank rather than spending a whole bunch of time preparing something.

 

[Slappy*McFish]

The spinach pulls calcium out of the fish.

How?