Home made fish food recipes

[smhray]

Hey everyone! I’m looking into creating my own blend of food for my fish to be able to offer plenty of ingredients and nutrients to my fish during feeding. I’m just looking for some inspiration so please add your recipe in this thread and talk about why you added some of those ingredients. Thanks, excited to see everyone’s recipes.

 

[Spare time]

My fish enjoy my home made food. I use tilapia, jumbo shrimp, and scallop with vitachem.

 

[Subsea]

I suggest live bivalves (oysters, mussels and clams). I open live mussels to feed fish & filter feeders with live healthy gut cavity bacteria. The HEB seafood counter manager will open a bag and sell individual bivalves. After several purchases of only 6 mussels, he asked why I only bought six small mussels. He was smiling after I showed him pictures of sea apples & flame scallops in reef tank.

 

[HockeyRooster]

In for the replies. Good question.

 

[Paul B]

Subsea beat me to it.

 

[Subsea]

Subsea beat me to it.

I was tutored by you. Glad you have your radar on. How are your titanium knees doing?

 

[Paul B]

I think they made a mistake and instead of titanium they used aluminum from old 8 track tape players.

If the people with all the posts in the disease forum would just feed shellfish with living bacteria occasionally from the time they got the fish, they wouldn't need a disease forum. But what do I know?

 

[HockeyRooster]

I think they made a mistake and instead of titanium they used aluminum from old 8 track tape players.

If the people with all the posts in the disease forum would just feed shellfish with living bacteria occasionally from the time they got the fish, they wouldn't need a disease forum. But what do I know?

I am not trying to hijack this thread but is there anything specific to buy regarding live bivalves? And do I need to open them and then make sure I feed everything that comes out? Very intrigued by your comments about disease prevention.

 

[Super Fly]

I suggest live bivalves (oysters, mussels and clams). I open live mussels to feed fish & filter feeders with live healthy gut cavity bacteria. The HEB seafood counter manager will open a bag and sell individual bivalves. After several purchases of only 6 mussels, he asked why I only bought six small mussels. He was smiling after I showed him pictures of sea apples & flame scallops in reef tank.

do u chop the shellfish 1st or just throw in as one piece?

 

[Jet915]

Making your own is so much cheaper. I make a batch, lasts me a year and costs probably 20-30 bucks. I go to asian supermarket. I get a fresh fish (whatever is cheap, last time I got a mackerel), shrimp, clams, mussels, squid, fish eggs (if they have them). I filet the fish and add the meat and the intestines/liver etc in a bowl.
I keep the clams/squid/shrimp/mussels frozen as it is easier to dice through food processor blender. I then add it to fish, i dump a bottle of selcon along with some nori you can crush. Once its mixed I put it in large ziplock and mold as a sheet. Once frozen, you can chop it into cubes.
Ive been doing this for 2 years, fish love it.

 

[Bars]

Made my own as well a couple of weeks ago. Oysters, squid and jumbo shrimp (shell and all) from the Asian market, all my left over frozen food (fish & lobster eggs, mysis, krill, mussels, small shrimp), some nori and 2 cloves of fresh garlic. Mixed it in a blender and put it in some ziplock bags. My fish go crazy for it and the corals catch a good bunch of smaller particles.

How necessary is it to add vitamins? Is there any way I can still add it to the food? I initially made it to feed in addition to the flakes and pellets. However, seeing as they love this stuff, I'm thinking about ditching the dry foods.

 

[Adamantium]

I just made some the other day in a nutribullet, and the thing I have a hard time with is getting the particle size right. It ended up being coral food because I blended too long haha

Any suggestions for keeping everything bite size rather than puréed?

 

[Subsea]

do u chop the shellfish 1st or just throw in as one piece?

I use a whole mussel at a time. Separate flesh from shell and dice up portions. Not only is this a fish treat, filter feeders, including coral love it. I can keep mussels live for up to a week in refrigerator. If you have a smaller tank to feed, you could consider freezing whole and cutting slivers. However, quantity of gut cavity bacteria decrease when frozen. Meaning some bacteria will die and some will live. Normally, the bad bacteria are the most difficult to destroy. I use healthy good bacteria to keep bad bacteria in check.

 

[Subsea]

I just made some the other day in a nutribullet, and the thing I have a hard time with is getting the particle size right. It ended up being coral food because I blended too long haha

Any suggestions for keeping everything bite size rather than puréed?

limit blender time. No need for homogeneous food size. You have many different size mouths in your tank, let them eat different size food.

 

[Subsea]

I think they made a mistake and instead of titanium they used aluminum from old 8 track tape players.

If the people with all the posts in the disease forum would just feed shellfish with living bacteria occasionally from the time they got the fish, they wouldn't need a disease forum. But what do I know?

you have written a book on some of what you know.

 

[Paul B]

Yes,I wrote a book because I didn't have anything to do for a few days.

I buy the biggest clams I could buy and freeze them live. Before I freeze them I slightly open them and stick something in the shell like a popsickle stick or a hundred dollar bill rolled up. That is to make it easier to open them when they are frozen.

Then I slice off paper thin slices and put the rest of the clam back in the freezer. If the clams are small or if you are feeding mussels, they are much smaller and can be frozen, then chopped. I don't like the blender as it makes mush.

 

[Subsea]

@Paul B
you should discribe the ritual that you use to get fish to spawn and corals polyps to extend:
one bottle of red wine with a platter of clams and cocktail sauce all in front of tank.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Yes,I wrote a book because I didn't have anything to do for a few days.

I buy the biggest clams I could buy and freeze them live. Before I freeze them I slightly open them and stick something in the shell like a popsickle stick or a hundred dollar bill rolled up. That is to make it easier to open them when they are frozen.

Then I slice off paper thin slices and put the rest of the clam back in the freezer. If the clams are small or if you are feeding mussels, they are much smaller and can be frozen, then chopped. I don't like the blender as it makes mush.

Yummmm!

 

[Subsea]

I am not trying to hijack this thread but is there anything specific to buy regarding live bivalves? And do I need to open them and then make sure I feed everything that comes out? Very intrigued by your comments about disease prevention.

Gut cavity bacteria are the “microbial overlords” that ensure healthy system functions in humans, fish, corals and macros. Marine biologist & researchers have found that changes in bacteria populations foretell changes in the coral holobiont.

Yes, everything inside of bivalve shells, especially the gut cavity (filter feeders). Clams have smallest gut cavity, oysters next and mussels have largest gut cavity and are the least expensive at about $0.10 each.

 

[USMA36]

I think they made a mistake and instead of titanium they used aluminum from old 8 track tape players.

If the people with all the posts in the disease forum would just feed shellfish with living bacteria occasionally from the time they got the fish, they wouldn't need a disease forum. But what do I know?

If you buy fresh bivalves and freeze do the fish get the same benefit?