Fish Food Recipe Frenzy Post Here!

[iamdickie]

Please post all of you fish food recipes here mod, if this gets big please sticky

Ill start

this is my magic ich recipe, works great

1/2 oz garlic juice
2 oz flake prime reef
2oz flake formula one
2 oz flake formula 2
1/2 package of mysys shrimp
1/2 package of brine shrimp

mix together

i use cheap fish food, eg vibragrow, as a filler to soak up the extra juice, lay out on foil and freeze.

[SPC]

Shrimp and scallops blended.

Freeze in thin layers in baggies.

Soak in RO/DI water before feeding.
Steve

[Boxster]

i noticed ich on my bc basslet and my sf tang well over a month ago. started soaking their food in garlic. everybody is still alive and happy. garlic works. i do notice a few spots on some of my guys from time to time but it never explodes into an epidemic. just keep on soaking thier food i garlic

[kwjones]

A good Blender Mush link...

http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/sh...t=blender+mush

[iamdickie]

on the blender mush do you remove the shell of the crab legs and lbster tail?

[kwjones]

I believe you are supposed to remove it. Off the top of my head, I really can't think of anything in an aquarium that would actually eat it.

[iamdickie]

Originally Posted by kwjones

I believe you are supposed to remove it. Off the top of my head, I really can't think of anything in an aquarium that would actually eat it.

cool thanks ill make sure to do that, any other recipes?

[Sea monkey]

i make Eric's "famous" coral food recipe . feeds the sponges, corals, fish and all the other filter feeders in my tank. everything goes mad when i add it.

this is just a cut and paste from where i found it.

I rarely have or use all of the ingredients listed, and I don't think it will make a difference over the long term. I also use this, or a variation of it, for my homemade fish food (I leave the fish food chunker and add various algae). Basically, I either use what is left over from the last round of food-making, or I go to a few stores and get whatever they might have at the time. I feed this to the tank at night, generally, and would add that for some of the ingredients, I have no idea if they have any specific role. Its just what I have done before. I have also changed a bit with some other foods now available (since I have written this last time)

I try to get a mix of particle sizes involved to accomodate not just all sizes of polyps, but also feed other inverts that filter feed.

Fresh seafood:

Some combination of the ingredients below and it makes up a relatively small percent of the total - maybe 10-20%?

shrimp (I squeeze the heads and usually use the "meat" in the fish food)
oysters - blend well and may have Vibriostatic properties
various other shellfish (mussels, clams, periwinkles, etc. - the bloodier, the better...live is great (shucking sucks but gives a good final product)
Fish roe (sometimes available at Asian markets)


Frozen foods

This makes up perhaps 20-30% of the mix - some are from an aquarium store, some from the grocer

Artemia - adult
Artemia nauplii (baby brine shrimp) (enriched, if possible)
Mysid shrimp
Sea urchin roe
Flying fish roe

Dried Aquarium Foods

this makes up the majority of my mix - probably 40%

Golden Pearls - all sizes available, but a majority of the smallest size
Cyclop-Eze
VibraGro
Powdered marine flake

Phytoplankton

makes up maybe 2% of mix or less?

Tahitian Blend (I use DT's seperately)

Supplements

makes up maybe 2-5% of mix?

Super Selco ( a big squeeze)
Sea Green Vitamin supplements - various brands, powdered, from Whole Foods market

I have also been known to add Echinacea capsules, the skins of colorful vegetables and fruits, various pigment complexes of carotenoids, etc. and/or antioxidants from Whole Foods market.

In terms of preparation, I puree the solid seaoods, mix in the frozen ingredients, soak the dry/powdered ingredients in the wet ingredients, combine them all together and let them sit for a few hours, and then freeze them into small flats in ziplocs in the freezer. I usually wind up with about 50.00 in foods per batch and make about a gallon or so of food that lasts a couple or more months.

I'll leave this thread open, but stuck, to invite comments and questions.

[Spanky]

[quote=Sea monkey]i make Eric's "famous" coral food recipe . [quote]

Sounds like a recipe for growing hair algae.

[Sea monkey]

lets hope not . i feed this every day : )

[rottielover]

I'm sorry if this is a hijack, I was just wondering if along side the recipie's if you could say "the benifits of this foodstuff are" , example, Garlic - good for immune system / ich etc. For special items (ie garlic, live mussles, etc.), just so you know the first attempt I had and making my own fish food was a disaster, I bought some raw shrimp on sale, put in blender and got shrimp soup, oops!

[Phishnoob]

Ooh ooh I know this one.

Go to an asian store if you live in a good sized city. For about four bucks they sell one pound frozen packs (sort of like how frozen corn is packaged in a white bag) for human consumption of shrimp, mussels, fish, and a bunch of other stuff like octopus. Get out the handy cleaver and chop away and add a bit of garlic and selcon and woohoo your big old meat eaters are all set for a long time if you squish the bag all thin so you can break off chunks.

[Junkzoo]

Thanks Perry! I gotta go to my Asian market soon for my Nori,,,will try to find the seafood medley you tipped us to,,,,
The Wally Mart near me had something along those lines, but i read the ingredients, and it had some not so good stuff in it(spices-fake/non food ingredients) so i passed on it,,,

[Sea monkey]

Originally Posted by rottielover

I'm sorry if this is a hijack, I was just wondering if along side the recipie's if you could say "the benifits of this foodstuff are" , example, Garlic - good for immune system / ich etc. For special items (ie garlic, live mussles, etc.), just so you know the first attempt I had and making my own fish food was a disaster, I bought some raw shrimp on sale, put in blender and got shrimp soup, oops!

I think the main benifit of the one i listed is that it has a wide variety of food sizes to not only feed all polp sizes but also various other filter feeders in the tank. the food is high in different pigments to make sure your fish maintian their color and seems to be extremely healthy for them, providing a wide range of foods for them.

the reason i use it is because the live rock i bought is just covered in sponges, corals and a dozen or so types of filter feeding hichhiking critters. i wanted to keep these all healthy , mainly the sponges.


here is a thread about this food , think everyone who has used it is very happy with the results.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=176530

[yardboy]

Borneman's recipe used everything he could find. I use a simpler recipe, but use his guidelines. I'd be careful with Cyclo-Eeze, a little goes a long way. White fleshed fish is, I think, better than tuna, salmon, or other fatty fishes. Roe of any kind (I use mullet) will make my fish go wild. I use garlic for ich control. It got rid of the only outbreak I've ever had, two years ago. I used pelleted fish food once, but it really mushes out when you blend it with other stuff. Be careful of asian market and Wallyworld mixed seafood packs. They could have added phosphates to maintain the white color. Baitshops who sell squid might be better, no reason to add phosphates to that.

I use these recipes because my fish like them, but mainly because the corals in my tank really extend their polyps when I feed. They certainly don't do that with flakefood! Of course, my MRC skimmer goes wild when I feed, maybe that's why I've not had the feared algae outbreaks as a result.