Homemade Fish Food?

[brandoncw]

i was wondering if i could make some homemade food for my fish. if anyone has a good recipe that is fairly high in protein and carotene that would be great. im only feeding one red belly piranha. he is used to eating whatever he gets, whole fish, veggies, bloodworm, etc. i was just wanting an all-in-one food for the fish that i just cant seem to find in the stores.
 

 

[Zante]

I can give you the recipe for the food I make for my discus.
 
500g of fish. Any fish, I usually make a bit of a mix.
500g of shellfish. Again a mix: mussels, scallops and so on
500g of shrimp. very good to help with binding
500g of fruit and veg. Again a mix: peas, spinach, carrots, apples, pears, and so on. A banana is good to provide potassium
1 head of garlic each clove peeled.
 
All of the above needs to be fresh, as in not frozen.
Blitz the fruit and veg in a food processor and mince the rest in a mincer. If you don't have a mincer you can put that too in the food processor.
 
To the above add:
1 shot glass of salmon oil
1 tablespoon of spirulina
1 teaspoon of astaxanthin
1 crushed pill of vitamins (the ones for humans are just fine)
 
The mix will be fairly liquid, so I add a handful of good quality flake or granules, or freeze dried artemia/bloodworm/daphnia/whatever, often a mix of them. This will soak up the moisture.
 
To bind this mixture I use 300 bloom pigskin gelatine, and once set it makes nice little bricks of food.
Slice them in such a way that each piece is enough food for max four days and freeze the bits. If you cut them all the same shape and size they will stack beautifully and take up less space in your freezer.
 
This feeds my 20 discus for about 4 or 5 months. I just take a new piece out of the freezer once I've fed the last bit from the previous piece and once it's defrosted I cut it in single meal pieces.

 

[NickAu]

Thanks Zante
I wonder if my Clown Loaches Kuhli Loaches and snails would like that, Also my Betta finds snello ( snail Jello )  quite tasty.
 
Snello.
Ingredients:
1 tsp unflavored gelatin
2 tsp calcium powder
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp New life Spectrum pellets
1 tbsp ground Algae ( Hikari )
1 tbsp Blood worm, Brine shrimp
1 jar of Baby food ( Yes baby food ) Veg type with NO meat.

 
To bind this mixture I use 300 bloom pigskin gelatine, and once set it makes nice little bricks of food.

 

[brandoncw]

I can give you the recipe for the food I make for my discus.
 
500g of fish. Any fish, I usually make a bit of a mix.
500g of shellfish. Again a mix: mussels, scallops and so on
500g of shrimp. very good to help with binding
500g of fruit and veg. Again a mix: peas, spinach, carrots, apples, pears, and so on. A banana is good to provide potassium
1 head of garlic each clove peeled.
 
All of the above needs to be fresh, as in not frozen.
Blitz the fruit and veg in a food processor and mince the rest in a mincer. If you don't have a mincer you can put that too in the food processor.
 
To the above add:
1 shot glass of salmon oil
1 tablespoon of spirulina
1 teaspoon of astaxanthin
1 crushed pill of vitamins (the ones for humans are just fine)
 
The mix will be fairly liquid, so I add a handful of good quality flake or granules, or freeze dried artemia/bloodworm/daphnia/whatever, often a mix of them. This will soak up the moisture.
 
To bind this mixture I use 300 bloom pigskin gelatine, and once set it makes nice little bricks of food.
Slice them in such a way that each piece is enough food for max four days and freeze the bits. If you cut them all the same shape and size they will stack beautifully and take up less space in your freezer.
 
This feeds my 20 discus for about 4 or 5 months. I just take a new piece out of the freezer once I've fed the last bit from the previous piece and once it's defrosted I cut it in single meal pieces.

if i can find all these things, i think i have most of these in the kitchen, i might use that recipe, just on a smaller scale as im feeding 1 fish vs 20 also when you say flake, do you mean the plain old unsweetened cornflakes?

 

[NickAu]

I think he means fish food flakes.

 

[Zante]

if i can find all these things, i think i have most of these in the kitchen, i might use that recipe, just on a smaller scale as im feeding 1 fish vs 20 also when you say flake, do you mean the plain old unsweetened cornflakes?
 

 
I mean fish food. Since I'm using it to soak the liquid in the mixture it'd be pointless to use padding such as flour, or ash as is used in the cheaper fish food. Might as well use a high quality dry food that will soak up the liquid and not drag down the quality of the food you're making.

 

[brandoncw]

well that works out great, my sister has a big bottle of flakes and no fish to feed, but my fish wont accept flakes so mixing them into something he will eat would be good
thanks for sharing