Making your own fish food

[sherman]

I take about a pound of shelled shrimp, a pound of mussels, some squid or calamari and some crab meat, put it all in the food processor for less than a minute and then I mix in some cut pieces of nori.

I put the mix in small freezer bags and then flatten them out and pop them in the freezer. Then each morning I break off a bit.

I find this works well for reef and small - medium sized fish, but bigger fish like puffers and porcs like larger pieces of food. I tried adding small sardines and other small fish to the mix but I stopped since it seems most fish are very oily.

This also comes out at about 1/3 of buying prepared frozen fish food.

Any suggestions for other things or supplements to add? I thought some type of vitamin would be good? Garlic juice?

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.

[LukFox]

I always add selcon and garlic into the mix, too. For bigger fish I just don't thaw out some big pieces and they'll swallow it whole.

Why not add some fish into the mix? Things like tuna, cod, or something. I made a mix last night with prawns, tuna, yellow tail, salmon, flying fish eggs, selcon, and garlic. Fish love it.

[sherman]

LukFox,

How do you add the garlic, pieces of fresh garlic? juice from garlic? capsuls?

and the selcom, you just add it from a bottle, the freezing doesn't affect it?

[LukFox]

I use the kent garlic. You could also just squeeze it from actual garlic cloves. It's easier from the bottle, but the garlic cloves work just as well.

I don't think the freezing harms the selcon. It's all absorbed into the food when frozen, so I don't think any is lost. I just poor it into the food straight from the bottle, yeah, then mix.

[sherman]

I tried fresh garlic and my tank ended up smelling like an Italian kitchen every time I feed them. Not bad but alittle too much for 8 in the morning.