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Darn good idea. I have just been making the food and putting it into Ziploc bags. And making sure it is thin enough to be able to break a piece off. The egg crate idea is awesome.
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I used freeze dried products like krill, brine, and mysis. Because it doesn't raise nitrates and phosphates the way fresh frozen does. Also I use garlic enriched nori, garlic enriched flake food, pod eggs, sea weed pellets, and a few other ingredients. I put all that in a chopper until it's blended up very fine, so even the smallest of my fish can eat it. I then heat up some rodi water with garlic extract, mix it all together and pour over the egg crate and freeze it. The next day, I pop out the cubes into a large bag, and cut them in half when I need some.
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My fish love this, and even when they take a small bite, they get so much nutrition. Also my coral love it as well. My wellso most of all. But even my frog and hammer will take in small crumbs.
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Do you mind sharing where you source your ingredients?
IMO way to much Garlic.
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Awesome idea been thinking of making our own food as well if I do I'll try it. Thanks for sharing.
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eric.battani
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Baritone jp I get some from amazon, and others from a lfs called the aquarium shop.
That's an interesting article, but I have been making my fish food like this for at least the last 4 years like this, my fish love it and are fat and healthy. I don't use an over abundant amount of garlic, mostly what is already in the nori and flake. Also I add so many other ingredients that are all ground/chopped up, that when the fish even the smallest of bites, they get so much nutrition. Where IME, before I started using this, most of my fish would go after things like brine or mysis instead of more nutrient rich flake food. So they was getting plenty of protein but hardly anything else. Now they get so much more. Is all the stuff I add a bit much? Maybe, but my fish like it and all have fat bellies.
That's an interesting article, but I have been making my fish food like this for at least the last 4 years like this, my fish love it and are fat and healthy. I don't use an over abundant amount of garlic, mostly what is already in the nori and flake. Also I add so many other ingredients that are all ground/chopped up, that when the fish even the smallest of bites, they get so much nutrition. Where IME, before I started using this, most of my fish would go after things like brine or mysis instead of more nutrient rich flake food. So they was getting plenty of protein but hardly anything else. Now they get so much more. Is all the stuff I add a bit much? Maybe, but my fish like it and all have fat bellies.
There is no need. At one time it was thought to entice picky eaters and to help ward off ICH. However studies show neither to be proven without doubt. Studies have proven that long term use actually damages the fishes liver.
This is what I've read from personal research.
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I have heard that garlic is supposed to be good for the immune system. I wonder about the study that says long term use damages the liver. How could they determine conclusively that it was the garlic and not some other factor?
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This is what controls are used for. You have two groups. One eats garlic. The other, the control, does everything the other does except eat garlic. At the end you can compare the two groups and differences can be attributed to the dependent variable, garlic.
What's actually good for the immune system is a good quality foods and a fish that eats them. It "was" believed that Garlic enticed picky or ailing fish into eating, thus building up their immune systems. However under controlled studies this was in fact proven not to be the case. The smell may have attracted them to the food but they didn't eat it any sooner then the food without Garlic.
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Eric, you wrote "I used freeze dried products like krill, brine, and mysis. Because it doesn't raise nitrates and phosphates the way fresh frozen does." Can you tell me why?
I do make my own fish/coral food with seafood and frozen mysis. I pack the food in ziplock type freezer bags in the form of thin sheets, instead. Since I let as much air out as possible when I form the sheet, the food stay fresher looking for a long time without freezer burns.
Since I don't use the food up as quickly as you do, frozen cubes tend to get deciccated easily due to air around them in a bag, and ice crystals form on them. This is the reason why I make it in the sheet form. How do you avoid freezer burns/ice crystals with your cubes?
I do make my own fish/coral food with seafood and frozen mysis. I pack the food in ziplock type freezer bags in the form of thin sheets, instead. Since I let as much air out as possible when I form the sheet, the food stay fresher looking for a long time without freezer burns.
Since I don't use the food up as quickly as you do, frozen cubes tend to get deciccated easily due to air around them in a bag, and ice crystals form on them. This is the reason why I make it in the sheet form. How do you avoid freezer burns/ice crystals with your cubes?
