ABCDemily

I'm lookng to start making yummy and relatively cheap frozen food for my fish.
I'm getting a Bolivian Ram next week, so it has to be a good all rounder.
betta friendly, Cichlid friendly, Live bearer friendly, tetra friendly, cory friendly...(All spread over three tanks lol)

I read one with: carrots, cucumber, apple, oats, all blanched, then pureed, gelatin added, then frozen.

Any other recipes for the fish? It works out a lot cheaper this way as well

Thank you

Tony G.

i've been told that sugar isnt good for their diets. It sounds great!!! once you make the recipe let me know cuz i woyld like to try it myself ooo one suggestion.
you could make the mix and then mix it with gellatin(clear flavorless) and put it in the fridge, that way it holds it together, and you can just cut out the cubes and feed away!good luck

meicalnissyen

Ingredients:

Because of research done over the last few years we have found that using warm blooded meat for fish just is not advised anymore. Please see our food list for more details...http://www.worldcichlids.com/portal/...&topic=15676.0

*500 grams (1 pound) white fish(cod, haddock,Hoki, tilapia or something similar) Normally what is on sale at the fish market. *350-500 grams (3/4-1 pound) a mix of krill,prawns(large shrimp), clams, squid, again whatever is on sale is normally good *1 can of shelled green peas *1 large carrot cooked until slightly tender and pureed

*1 small packet of frozen spinach(150-200g) (Drained of all excess liquid) *200 grams (1/2 pound) of prawns (I like to peel and head them otherwise they pass the shells and they end up sitting on the bottom of your tank) *1 cup of fish food pellets crushed (soak this in some warm water to soften, they blends smoother if soft) *5-8 Cloves of peeled garlic, crushed and minced/pureed

*2-3 packets of unflavored gelatin to bind(more may be used if a firmer consistency is desired)

*2-3 Good quality multivitamin ground to powder

Method:

It's really quite simple, everything except the gelatin needs to be either minced or put in the food processors and made into a mince-like consistency. I recommend that you do each of the meaty ingredient in the food processor separately and then combine all in a large mixing bowl. It's okay to blend all the veggies together. Once everything is blended up, combine it all in a bowl. Add the crushed fish food. Dissolve the gelatin in a little water (as little as possible) then also add. Mix thoroughly. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Spread the mix evenly on the trays at around 1/4" (5mm) thickness. Place two layers of baking paper over the mix and keep repeating until the tray is full. Allow to set up in the refrigerator, when firm score with the back of a knife into equal serving size portions. Freeze. Once frozen break portions up and store in a container in the freezer. You can add or not add whatever you like (anything from the food list) but avoid corn; it is indigestible to fish and causes problems. Any other ideas on this recipe would be good.

You can add or not add whatever you like but avoid corn; it is indigestible to fish and causes problems.

Any other ideas on this recipe would be good.

Recipe by Tony Snell and the Admin Team

Important Notes:

This recipe makes an incredibly large amount of food. If you only have 1-3 large cichlids, very young, or small fish; I would recommend making the above recipe at 1/4 portions. This will make sure that it doesn't sit around in the freezer for ever while you try and go through it. I say this out of experience.

Also several people including the creator have burned out their wives blenders making this recipe. I recommend only using a good food processor, if you use a blender be very careful and add all ingredients slowly to insure the blade does not freeze up. Wives and girlfriends tend to be very unhappy when this happens.

Amanda

I know Shawnie makes her own food. I'm sure she'll see this thread the next time she's on the forum.

ABCDemily

Thank you so much for all the super fast replies! I'll look into using fish and prawns, they're relatively cheap around here, and I know it's good quality

MaddieLynn

I made a frozen veggie wafer type thing for goldies. Here's what I did:

Blanched frozen peas, spinach, watermelon rind (I thought that would be good fiber), and cucumber, then drained it and pureed it in the food processor. Then I disolved 2 packs of unflavored geletain in a little boiling water and mixed it in. I poured it in muffin tins for molds and I just shave a little piece off whenever I want to feed it.

If I did it again I'd use more gelatain. You can just use whatever green veggies you have laying around. I was also going to use some oats but I forgot.

ABCDemily

Heehee! That sounds like a good recipe. I dread to think what's in the veggie drawer in my fridge right now. Probably a large, brown, rotten mush.

I'm going to start working on the recipe/ actually making it next week, I'll let you know how it goes

Annadvn

I make 2 types of home made foods, a vegetarian one for african cichlids and a meaty one for all the other fish.

The veggie one has, spinach, broccoli, spinach, carrots, peas, zuchinni and cucumber all blended and combined with unflavoured gelatin and frozen (stays edible for longer)

The carnivore ones has all of the above in (we usually just save some aside when we are making them both) and beef heart (a lot of people use this as a staple for homemade foods) white fish (usually remove fins and head) blended, shrimp (we try include the meat from the head, but remove shells as the shells don't blend easily), any other seafood thats on special or reduced (clams, squid for example) We blend it altogether and add unflavoured gelatin and freeze.

Once frozen we cut into cubes (depends on sizes of mouths as to what sizes) and feed once a day, we don't add any multivitamins as we feed along side regular good quality fish food. Mornings they get fish food, evenings they get home made foods.

Other things you could add to the food include earthworms, fishing bait (make sure its not be coated in anything) insects from garden - as long as you don't use pesticides).

Anna

P.S from experience you might want to make sure the windows are open, it usually smells bad!

ABCDemily

I might compile a giant recipe book from all this haha! The veggie one sounds more feasable (I'm sixteen with no job and no money lol!) And I don't know how readily available beefheart is here in Englishland. I do have loads of Lamb giblets sitting in my freezer, so they may go in nat some point.

Thanks for the help, I'm sure my fishies will loveeee it

Annadvn

I'm sure Lamb would be fine too. Over here in America its easier to get beef products than any lamb. My parents in England raise sheep and always have a freezer full of lamb, i will get them to check out lamb over beef for fish.

Anna

ABCDemily

Cool, where do they live over here? My cousins raise sheep as well, we've always got shipments of lamb coming this way. Four out of ten freezer drawers are full of it! As they are both red meat, I can't see there being any discnerable difference between nutritional values or anything....

I shall have to see what I can get my hands on

whisper

when I made my homemade food I strainded the liquid off it. Then I spread it out on a cookie sheet and baked it on very low heat in the over for a few hours. Then let it dry and cool overnight. Then broke it up into pieces that I would put in a feeding clip and attatched that to the inside of the tank. The fish have a feeding frenzy over it with no little pieces floating all over the place or mucking up the water.

Shawnie

I use the same things as anna but i do add the one a day vitamin...main things to avoid are high suger foods and starchy foods....but DONT forget the plain gelatin ...it will be a mess (been there!) great responses ~!