Who makes there own food?

oceanparadise1 · Apr 30, 2013

Who makes there own food and what do you use? I would like to start my own food, so if you have a good recipe please share!

c_healy · Apr 30, 2013

I do...freshly caught shrimp from south carolina. I also buy some white fish, clams and whatever else I feel like throwing in at the time. I add some dry seaweed, hikari pellets, selcon, and garlic extract to the mix too.

Blend on high to a mush like consistency.

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redfishbluefish · Apr 30, 2013

Here’s Eric Borneman’s fish (coral) food recipe. Our local club does a group-buy type get-together to make up this stuff……makes quite a bit. We just had another get-together this past weekend with slight modifications to this recipe.

Eric Borneman's Famous Fish Food Recipe

Fish food and coral food (coral food is liquefied)

Ingredients
- a whole fresh sea fish
- 10 whole shrimp - I squeeze the heads
- 1 pound fresh mussels - cracked and scraped out
- 1 pound fresh clams including clam juice
- 1 8 oz container fresh oysters
- 1-2 fresh or frozen squid, whole
- 1 package frozen sea urchin cubes
- 1 12 oz package artemia (brine shrimp, frozen), thawed
- 6 types of dried seaweed Nori, Wakame, Hijiki, Dulse, Ano, etc.) - available at Whole Foods market, health food stores, Asian markets.
about 2 g. powdered sea greens/antioxidants or immune boost complex
- 2 tbsp. marine flake
- 2 tbsp. VibraGro
- 2 tbsp. powdered spirulina
- 1 tbsp Super Selco

Optional (found frozen in Asian markets)
- ark shells
- periwinkles, etc...

Method
- Blend coarse ingredients in food processor
- Mix in fine ingredients (Artemia, powders, flake, Selco)
- Freeze in flats

Preparation
- Soak the seaweeds in fresh (declorinated) water until soft.
- Thaw all of the frozen ingredients in a bowl.
- Remove shells from all seafood.
- Crush all dry ingedients into a powder. A mortar and pestle is best, but various other kitchen implements (2 spoons, 1 spoon and a -
small plate) can be used.
- Add liquid vitamins to the powdered ingredients.
- Liquify all of the ingredients in a blender.
- Freeze in Ziplock bags in thin flats or in small compartment ice cube trays (cut pieces in half, or quarters for feeding convenience and
store in Ziplock bags after frozen).

Feeding Recommendations

Start by feeding small amounts (1/2 tsp per 50 gallons of system water per day) to begin with. You can gradually increase the amount, until you start to see water quality problems, then back off on the quantity a bit. The food can be administered at night (when most corals actively feed) or with the use of a turkey baster (dissolve the ration in a container of tank water and inject directly onto the corals).

This coral food is pure, high potency nutrition for your corals. Using a high powered protein skimmer in your tank will greatly assist you in keeping the accumulation of uneaten food to a safe level.

This makes a LOT of food...approximately 10-12 quart size Ziploc flats

KSzegi · Apr 30, 2013

I make up the majority of my food. Have the benfit of a cottage on the Gulf so sometimes the recipe varies depending on what we get while fishing or crabbing etc .... but a typical mix is ....

shrimp, scallops, octopus and or squid, clams, crab and sometimes a bit of fish ..... then I add some cyclop eeze, nutramar ova, mysis and some seaweed ..... chop it all in a food processor so it is a mix with assorted size chunks and some 'mush'. Freeze it up flat in freezer bags and break off chunks to feed.