Making your own fish food

GEL MIX FISH FOOD

Finally I have go around to telling you about the gel mix, which make the beef hearth mix look barbaric in comparison, this is not my info, and I got it when I did a 3 week work placement with the University of Miami experiment fish hatchery in 1989.
I have made this up a few times, don’t make it too wet, otherwise you have to mix loads
Of flake food to “dry it up”

The ingredients can be quite varied,(i.e spinach if its for Africans)the whole thing is held together with gelatine. The basic ingredients for this food is freshly frozen flounder and squid, which both can be obtained from local supermarkets. The flounder should thoroughly thawed before use, and as much excess water as possible drawn off using paper towels. The squid should be partially thawed, skinned, eviscerated, rinsed, and patted on paper towels to remove excess moisture. Aquarium flake food are used to stabilise the gel-mix and serve as an high quality filler, for best results 1KG should be prepared at a time.

1. Blend dried flounder and squid to a smooth paste in a food
mixer/blender.
2. Add dry vitamins, chlorine chloride (methyl donor),
parika. Blend thoroughly.
3. Add the flake food until a smooth, even texture is obtained.
4. Allow mixture to stand for 10-15 minutes. (for vitamins to soak into the preparation)
5. Add gelatine powered, (dry), and blend.
6. 6 Pour vigorously boiling freshwater or saltwater if its for marines slowly while blending.
7. Pour paste into PAPER cups, let stand at room temperature for one hour, and place into in freezer.
8. to fed the fish next day take out the paper cup and run ambient temperature tap water over the end of the paper cup, so it slightly de thaws, the using a cheeses grater grate directly over the tank.

Summary Flounder 30%, Squid 15% flake food 15%, gelatine 20%, water 15%, vitamins 1%, chorine chloride 0.1% and paprika 0.1%

Connolly 2007
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flake food makes beefheart mixes look sofisticated. pretty close to what I feed my discus. I'm using cod and shrimp instead of flounder and squid, though.

Quick question - why the Gelatine? Surely when frozen eveything will stick together anyway?

When it thaws/goes into the tank it will make a right mess, other wise, the gelatin is a bit like the clear stuff in cat food, the main ingredient can be any thing but normally it is fish/crustean 2:1 ratio

crustean=any animal without a back bone e.g shrimp squid etc

When it thaws/goes into the tank it will make a right mess, other wise, the gelatin is a bit like the clear stuff in cat food, the main ingredient can be any thing but normally it is fish/crustean 2:1 ratio

crustean=any animal without a back bone e.g shrimp squid etc

Crustaceans are animals with shells.
Invertebrates have no backbone. Must check the time of this post.

8.23 am. he must be hitting the bottle early. Squid's no crustacean

8.23 am. he must be hitting the bottle early. Squid's no crustacean

I recon he brought his laptop to the early house.

8.23 am. he must be hitting the bottle early. Squid's no crustacean

Its an invertebrate especially when you pull the thin semi transparent soft bony thing out, and when you blend him he is even less of a invert, more like porridge.

P.S no jokes about soft Bonny thing please, its a family forum.

Stop pulling things out. Famiuly friendly forum and all