christi, it was pretty easy...they seemed to really like it.....but, yea, the fish weren't too impressed w/ the baby spinach.....lol.....i figure it all gets eaten by something, so no biggie
we'll see how it goes....sometimes they seem really happy about getting something, then just seem to hate it overnight....weird fish
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just a thought..., prepared food are meant to make it easier of lazy blubber-gifted hobbyist like me. if you took so much care to purchase these foods fresh, why mess with it? for us, it would be like if you bought filet mignon and used it to make hamburger.
walrus, the reason is to not only acheive a good mix, but because when the food is all ground together, you have all different sizes of food....so, you are feeding the whole tank in one shot
two side notes:....
i also put garlic extreme in there, forgot about that & when i fed them dinner, they did eat the baby spinach:-)
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good thoughts. i've made my own food before i got too busy with too many tanks. don't overlook flake food in your mix, its like the bread crumbs in a meatloaf. you also get the fish to accept flakes which is blessing if you ever have to use aan automatic feeder. i don't make my own food anymore, but i do create buffet. try chopping some bok-choy or kale. i use Zoecon, Marine Zoe, Marine C, and Garlic Extreme. don't use any cooked seafood or seafood blend from a market. the fish has a hard time digesting, especially the ones with artificial crab meat.
Very cool. i wish i was a fish in your tank, that sounds delicious. I have been trying to get to the aisian market to pick some stuff up for fish food.
ive used a list of recipe comb that i sourced years ago. u just add & chop to size what your targeting in your tank, fantasticly cheap & easy right dreams?
the list:
Nori : stir in at the end
Shrimp: chopped large or small
Scollop: minced for polyped coral
Squid/Calamari :great for anems, harder to chop fine
Crab: Real crab, not extender , multi target filler
Octopus: full nutritional value blending entire organism
Mussel: minced additive
Fry Food: fine suspension feeder
Yeast: 1 teaspoon per mixture batch, fine suspension feeder
Flake Food: Stir in at the end, full nutrinional value, medium dispersal
Bait Fish: fine/medium/large chopped
Vitamin supplements: all round nutritional value,1 teaspoon, bird multi-vit are cheaper than aquarium
Brine Shrimp: Frozen/fresh add toward the end of mix, target specific
Fish Eggs/Shrimp Eggs: Nutritional value, dont use russian caviar
Mysid Shrimp: nutritional value, add towards the end of mix
Chicken Egg Yolk: Cook, blend ,add towards the end of mix,nutritional value, also fine suspension
Zooplankton: frozen/fresh robs delight
Garlic Extract: scent enhancement, fish health tonic
Anaseed Extraca scent enhancement, feeding frenzy tonic on wild fish
Garden Greens: target trial & error, add separatley, most need blanching
i used flake formula one....and all fresh foods, no mixes....will do on the /box-choy/kale
i am considering changing the selcon to zoe.....i "heard" the selcon can pollute the water...anyone else hear that?
Zoe is a mineral extract and Selcon is a fatty acids. the Kent version of selcon is Zoecon. I like the kent version better. many people have said that selcon can cause water parameter issues.
oh, and one more thing, i'm not sure if its true. i was told that spinach has too much iron for fish...mess with one of their organs. also some problems with beans and sprouts.
veriann, thanks for the recipe....yea, it actually was quicker to make than i thought it would be....and you aren't buying a lot, so the prices were deffinately right....and they are really loving it
walrus, thanks....i haven't heard/read that about the spinach
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