Homemade Beefheart Mix For Discus

[puggsiepugh]

I have been given a recipe for a homemade beefheart mix which I would like to try. Clearly a Beefheart is a huge piece of meat that I don't think any amount of fish could eat in one go!!

I will therefore be making up the mix and freezing it into usable size blocks.

My question: Is it ok to buy frozen beefheart, then defrost it & mince it together with the other ingredients & then refreeze or do I need to buy fresh, if I can ever find it? I know for human consumption meat should not be refrozen.

Thank you

 

[Gourami Lover88]

They are kings of the aquarium they should get fresh food

You probably paid a good amount for your discus so why skimp on food.

 

[kev_kb]

I buy frozen beef heart mix from my LFS and my Discus do great on it, I doubt theres much benefit in feeding it fresh. The mix is very cheap and saves me the time I would need to make it up.

 

[Sp00ky]

u could always get Ox Heart. Its pretty much the same, but not as much fat on it, thus not as much waste

 

[bingy_bong]

My old, regular fish shop in Skipton used to make the mix with beef hearts and said another mix could be with turkey hearts. I used to have a video from SD Punchard (when they were in clitheroe ) and it shows how to make there beef heart mix. Ill have to have a good old rummage around, havent seen it for a while. My Discus preffered this to the discus mix in the block packs. (If you get some freezer bags, put enough in to fill a cake tray, you can stack quite a few once frozen in the freezer and they dont take too much room up, plus also once frozen, you can break off any size you wanted) I once tried making it myself, but you need a fairly powerful blender to cut it all properly. The housewife ones, i have been told dont seem to last very long.