Hot Dog fish food mix

The floating poop would be a result of the high fat content. This happens with people too. May make for easier clean up but Ide rather take a bit more time cleaning the tank floor then feed my Oscar a hot dog recipe. If people were really smart you just buy some Platy's put them in a cheap 10-20 gal and let them breed. Thats what im plannin on doing.

Hot Dogs to fish thats just silly. I dont even feed hot dogs to my dog well except when giving him medication and even then only enough to hide the pill.

Good luck though with your doggy fish food. Not something Ill ever try.
 
Yeah I remember when I first started I had some black mollies and boy were they easy to breed and bullet proof, and talk about tenacious & acrobatic eaters. You might have something there, maybe I can raise Molly feeders in my 20 gallon sump tanks that that have all that wasted space only occupied by a filter sock and pump and feed them my recipe and then feed them to my future large Tipalia and Oscars. :idea:
Hay I remember you, your were Grr on a different site, did you ever get that double-decker steel stand fabricated for twin 100 tanks?
 
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Would an oscar eat cherry shrimp? They should breed like coackroaches in your sump......I am constantly pulling them out of my FX5 alive and well.
 
an oscar would go gaga over live shrimp for sure, as long as he could see them well (red cherry shrimp on a sand substrate would be hard to miss!).
 
Not sure of the nutritional content of cherry shrimp but it has to be better than hotdogs.....I know I have the world's fattest female betta (not by design) that feasts on baby cherry shrimp 24/7 in my community 75 gallon overun with cherry shrimp.
 
I love your shrimp idea and can just picture those little guys hanging off the sump sock picking through the fines of food that got past the fish gills. But I hate the idea of them infesting the canisters and you know the strainers on the intakes have to be large to pick up those floaters otherwise the strainers look like rice pudding cakes. Ironically ship has 40% cholesterol, and 9% fat but Im sure its healthier then hot dogs. But you know its still a great idea maybe Ill look into larger crayfish in my sump
 
Well I thought some of you would like to know that I have suspended my efforts to combine Hot Dog as an ingredient to my existing oatmeal fish food mix, Oatmeal as the binder that holds everything together once dehydrated. Apparently the Hot Dog has more oils and fats then the mix can handle and wont allow the mix to either congeal or dehydrate so as not to cloud the water. Apparently the only way to feed Hot Dog is to feed it in whole or part chunks which I agree is too loaded in saturated fats to be eaten that way even by humans except on occasion as a comfort food.

So the Hot Dogs remain frozen for the occasional Oscar and Mabuna treat who seem to enjoy them most. The closest I was able to come to making a non-clouding food using ground Hot Dog was to flatten the mixture cardboard thin between wax paper sheets, freeze it and then brake the sheets into flaks. The problem with that is that I dont want to make so much that I have to freeze it, Id much rather make a batch for a few days at a time in the refrigerator and clump it into the tank in small chunks. So like I said the make up of the Hot Dog interfered with the Oatmeals ability to bind all the other ingredients together without clouding water.

I did take someones advice and now have a breeding pair of Black mollies in my sump and they seem to be doing well picking at the filter sock apparently food that is getting by the fish. So looks like I will have some reproducing fish food on the fin for my Oscars and Mbunas and I diden't even have to come up with a breeder tank.
 
I see you're mentioning feeding mbuna high protien, high fat foods. Most mbuna are herbivorous and subject to malawi bloat if fed high protein foods. Please look into what these fish need to stay healthy. High veggie diets are best for them.
 
CWO4GUNNER said:
I have never heard of any community of people who suffer an acute disease from practicing hot dog eating as part of an already high risk life style.
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Community; America
Acute Disease; Obesity
Symptoms and related Diseases/Sicknesses; too many to summarize here

just sayin'...

meat grading and defect action limits per food by the fda;
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/inspection_&_grading/index.asp
http://www.fda.gov/food/guidancecom...on/guidancedocuments/sanitation/ucm056174.htm

trust me when i say... unless it's kosher (regardless of denomination)... just like any other industry... meeting those standards is hit or miss... and yes, what the rodents/insects/whatever are carrying is usually the threat... not the critters themselves... but it's directly related often. side note: been weevils in your cereal is a horrible thing to face first thing in the morning... especially if you live in the city and don't know the difference from roaches.

given all that... and knowing a bit about the food industry first hand... taking into account "little industry secrets" and the fact that hot dogs are considered what they are...

i am glad you've written off the idea of "hot dog meal" for your fish. good move... for whatever reason. which incidentally, supports the claims that it's probably not healthy for your fish.
 
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