Fish food mix

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 tangs)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), and paprika. 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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Hi Fr. Jack.

I made a similiar mix over the weekend.

I got it from Melev's reef - here is the Link - www.melevsreef.com/food.html

I got the frozen mix from a local fish shop. I found it hard to blend it all up so added water to help it along - WRONG.
SHould have been persistant. It is OK but I find a lot of it is mush and the Mussels did not blend down enough so there is larger pirces that fall to the bottom - Thanks to the serpant stars I have it does get eaten.

Over all it is a great mix - fish prefer it and I know that my tube worms / leathers are also getting something out of it. I added Krill as I have a copperband and he only seems to get krill in his long mouth.

Andrew