Question about home-made food

Ursula

Ursula

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So I finally made myself a batch of home-made food.

I used shrimp, oysters, clams, nori, a dash of garlic xtreme, and some vitamin supplement. The fish love it, but I'm scared that I ground it too fine. I have a FOWLR tank, and since there is a lot of particulate matter floating around after I feed (the sugar sized pieces), I'm afraid I'm just adding to the waste.

The oysters were especially mushy, and just kind of pulverized. I also added gelatin, as Fenner suggests in his book. It seems to just glob things up. I have to aggitate the food with a fork to break it up.

Advice, please :worthy:
 
how do you mash it all up? do you do it by hand or a blender?

Some blenders can mash at different levels..maybe go a little more coarse on the chop. Or, chop it by hand and your in control of the size of meaty chunks....I used to use both methods, but, out of the two, i sticked to a sharp knife and chopping board...

Never used gelatin, never found any need for it...

Niko
 
I used a hand-blender. I'll stick to just chopping it with the next batch. I hate to toss this, but I think it's just too mushy...
 
Good to see this, I'm about to try my own mash before long. I know to keep the particles to the sizes of what the fish you stock will eat but after reading this I might stick to a knife instead of the food processor.
 
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