Help with making your own fish food.

[Charrone]

Hello, I'm new to this forum.

I'm from holland, and have a 530 litres tank, with a 200 liter sump underneath it.

I'm still filling the tank up wit coral and sorts. The tank is first set up in Januari, so I take it nice and slowly.

Sorry If my English disturbes you It's bin a while, sinds I used a correct grammer of English lol.

My question is the following : I see here a lot of people who create there own fish food, and I would like to try it as well. What is the kind of food you al use ? I want to create fishfood for meat eting fish and for marine eating fish. So both of them.

I am thinking to use Artemia, Cockles, Mussels etc. And spinaze etc. What is the best to use according to you ?

I'm sorry for my English (A)

 

[tyler1503]

I go to the seafood counter at the supermarket and get fresh squid, shrimp, white fleshed ocean fish, a small amount of salmon (it's very oily so I don't like to add too much) and mussels. I add whatever else is available that looks nice at the time.
I also add proper frozen fish food like mysis shrimp, frozen krill, and sometimes Hikaris carnivore mix.
I add flake food and pellet/granulated food too.
For algae eaters I add Nori
I'll be adding lumpfish caviar in my next mix too. I've fed it individually before with a good feeding response and figured I would add it to the mix.

 

[Charrone]

Thank you!

Yes, I feed diffrent kinds of fishfood as well, they all react to it. But favorit is Nori ( I have 3 grazer fish )
2 docter fish, yellow tang, and the veliferum. And a Siganus Magnificus. So there needs to be a lot of grazer food.

But for the other fish I like to create a mix, so that evry fish in the tank has something to eat!

Thank you for the Response, I will write it down, to create a lot of diffrent frozen food to choose from.
According to my oppinion it's good to have a lot of variaty in the food, that's why I would like to create my own

 

[cloak]

Check this out.

http://melevsreef.com/food.html

HTH.

 

[Charrone]

Thank you, I will check this out !

 

[jsker]

Made mine last week for the first time, cost $60 with shrimp, octopus, oysters, squid, scallops, nori, plankton, ran through a meat grinder on the smallest plate. After the grind I added some reef plus and froze it off in fluorescent light grid type cover cut to 11 x 8 sections. When I pop out a couple of cubes I chop them again just make sure the food is very fine. I will toss a cube of brine shrimp or mysis in when feeding. I figure I have about 360 portions or a good two years or better in food.

 

[tyler1503]

Made mine last week for the first time, cost $60 with shrimp, octopus, oysters, squid, scallops, nori, plankton, ran through a meat grinder on the smallest plate. After the grind I added some reef plus and froze it off in fluorescent light grid type cover cut to 11 x 8 sections. When I pop out a couple of cubes I chop them again just make sure the food is very fine. I will toss a cube of brine shrimp or mysis in when feeding. I figure I have about 360 portions or a good two years or better in food.

I'd be careful storing that much food in one go. After about 6 months or so I notice freezer burn on my homemade foods. I keep all my foods in ziplock bags so maybe that's not the best way to store it. Just thought I'd let you know

 

[jsker]

I'd be careful storing that much food in one go. After about 6 months or so I notice freezer burn on my homemade foods. I keep all my foods in ziplock bags so maybe that's not the best way to store it. Just thought I'd let you know

I have a real commercial freezer (some freezer say they are, but the freezer are made for home use) and stored the panels in suvee bags. Unless the electric goes out, or I have a mechanical issue I should be good. May I suggest a food saver system for storing frozen foods. Pull this air out and a constant temperature food will last a very long time in a sub zero state.