DIY gel fish food? Please help!!!

[Aesthetic-fish]

Hello, I have seen online about diy gel fis foods. But the problem with that is they require a lot of raw ingredients and nutrients. I was wondering, is there another way to make this gel fish food with store-bought fish food instead of the raw ingredients and nutrients? Please help me with this, as I am trying to find new ways of a fish diet. Thank you for all your help, everything is greatly appreciated. Please reply soon!!!

 

[AbbeysDad]

Although Repashy gets high marks with experienced hobbyists, I'm not sure I see much advantage in DIY gel food.
Just my nickel, but I feel we're better off with a blend of high quality flake foods along with some live foods. I've been in the hobby for 50+ years and for much of that I relied on commercial fish foods. Then this past spring, I decided to setup an outdoor 110g stock tank with three trios of red swordtails. At the same time I setup a few bins, indoors and outdoors, of daphnia (which also produced mosquito larvae and string algae. The fish just go nuts for live food!!!
I am currently culturing daphnia, micro worms, grindal worms, and white worms (in addition to feeding a custom blend of high quality flake food).

 

[Aesthetic-fish]

Thank you for your reply, but I am still trying to invest in some gel food. I don’t have access to repashy, so please maybe you can give me some ideas with how I can DIY this? I just want some variety in my fish’s diet. I do have an idea, can you maybe check for me if this would work? So I want to use some commercial fish food, make it kind of soggy but not gross soggy. Take some veggies, blend it. Add a bit of gelatin,and put into ice cube mold. Would this possibly work? Also, would this be healthy enough and safe enough for fish to eat? Another question, is there a way to do this gelatin? Thank you again for replying, pls reply soon!!!

 

[AbbeysDad]

I wouldn't do it, but maybe this works for you....
DIY Gel Fish Food

 

[Colin_T]

What sort of fish are you feeding?

We use to make marine mix by mincing up prawn, fish, squid, spinach and a few other marine based meats, then mixing them up and putting them in plastic bags. We flattened the bags so they were about 3-4mm hick and froze them. When it came time to feed the fish we took some out, defrosted it and fed it to the fish.

We used a meat mincer and put the meat through it a couple of times to make it small enough for all the fish.

Some places add gelatin but we didn't bother.

If you are feeding vegetarian fishes then you use plant matter instead of meat, or you can use a small amount of prawn or fish and lots of plant.

 

[Aesthetic-fish]

I am feeding this to bettas, guppies, platy, and neons. Is there a specific way to do this with commercial fish food and gelatin? Because I have a bunch of food I no longer use but can be used. If there is, can you tell me the recipe, process to make this, and some approximate measurements? Thank you for replying. Pls answer soon!!

Thanks for replying! If I don't wet the foods, would it keep its nutrients? I am only trying this as an expirement as I have seen other people's fish love gel food. I am planning to add some flakes, granules, freeze-dried foods, veggies, and gelatin. Anyway, do you think this would likely work out? Also, would this be healthy and safe? Have you ever tried gel food? Lastly, do you think my fish will enjoy this? Again, would the food still keep its nutrients if I just blend the ingredients, boil, add gelatin and let it set? Hopefully this works. Just so you know I am only feeding gel as a treat. Thx! Please reply soon!

 

[Colin_T]

Dry fish foods should remain dry until fed. If you add water and other things to them, the nutrients in them break down and they become useless.

If you want to make a frozen food then use the previous information. I don't have any info on gel foods and don't see any point in using them. Fish are fine on a varied diet consisting of dry flake or pellet foods, freeze dried foods, frozen (but defrosted) foods, and live foods.