Making your own Fish Food

[DougBouma]

I make my own fish food for my saltwater tank. What do you use for your home made food and how do you keep it clean as possible and healthy.

 

[mta_morrow]

I go to the local fisherman’s wharf. I get a dozen mussels, clams, and oysters.

Shuck them, freeze them, then once frozen a quick spin in the blender.

Add a pack of mysis to the mix afterward, bag and freeze.

 

[PDR]

I don't make my own food but check out this link: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/simple-diy-fish-and-coral-food.405626/#post-4821448

 

[Captain Quint]

I don't make it as often as I once did when I ran multiple systems. When I get in the mood I make a small batch or two from fresh:

*Shucked clams
*wild caught scallops
* wild-caught white shrimp which I peel
*oysters
*small amount of red nori
*Mysis
*Argent Cyclopeeze
*Selcon

I use a small food chopper dedicated to chopping into very small pieces, put in 8-ounce zip locks, flatten and freeze.

 

[Holy_makerel]

Last time i made food i used
Clams
Oysters
Scallops
Lobster
Shrimp
Squid(whole)
Silversides(whole)
Seabass
Mysis
Bloodworms
Artemia
Fish oil
Selcon

I've never had good luck not turning my food into a mush in the blender so i freeze and hand chop all the larger pieces. I also use silicon mini ice cube trays to cube up all the food. Freeze it and I've got perfect portions. Usually i make a 6-8 month supply portioned into plastic bags.

When i know I'll be making food soon I'll go to the grocery store and they will usually have yesterdays fresh seafood discounted so i can get the shellfish and lobster pretty cheap. I shuck the shellfish and freeze to cut up

 

[squampton]

When I made my own, which I no longer do.

Squid, shrimp, clams, mussels, Mysis, a white fish meat of some sort, blended it together, would add selcon at time of feeding.

Now I just buy my food at the local store, I feed a mix of krill, plankton, mysis (both hikari and PE as the bigger fish prefer PE smaller prefer Hikari) mega marine angel, and NLS pellets.

 

[MTBake]

I used clams, mussels, oysters, squid, white fleshed fish, shrimp, reef chili from BRS, and a bit of garlic. Chopped as fine as I could get it and froze it flat in a zip lock. Haven't made it in a couple years though.