Fish Food Recipe

[Olivier]

hi everyone,
can anyone please share your fish food recipe?
thank you
Olivier

 

[MikeNapoli]

I take about
20 steps to my car, 1/4 mile to Aquatic Obsessions, 10 steps to the door, 10 steps to the freezer, 2 bags of Rod's Food ... I mix it all up and viola... done.

lol. Rod's Food has everything.

 

[Olivier]

Mike,
you are funny. OK, I got some of those cube food. What ROD food should I get?

 

[MikeNapoli]

there's only one kind.

www.rodsfood.com

 

[RobSzar]

yeah, I agree with Mike, it's good stuff

 

[MikeNapoli]

It does put phosphate and nitrates into your tank but technicaly all food does.

You just can't over feed. I feed a 1"x1" square on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday.

I feed Spectrum Marine Fish Pellet and a sheet of Seaweed on Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday.

I have 12 Fish in my 120

1 Achilles Tang
1 Hippo Tang
1 Watanabe Angel
2 False Percs
2 Neon Gobys
2 Ventralis Anthias
1 Black Leopard Wrasse
1 Yellow Corris Wrasse
1 Green Chromis
Assorted Snails, Hermits, and seastars.

 

[vangvace]

When I'm not being lazy I'll make this: Adam's Reef Gumbo

Other wise a mix of flake and frozen throughout the week every other day, rotating every other feeding. Green water and cyclopeze one a week each

 

[momof6kids]

As a great food recipe I would suggest Eric Borneman's recipe. It is very easy to make and it is VERY well balanced. Every single inhabitant in your tank, from fish to coral, will enjoy this recipe. If I can't find something I just leave it out or make a substitution. ;D

Ingredients

* 1 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 2g powdered sea greens/antioxidants or immune boost complex

* 2 tbsp. marine flake
* 2 tbsp. VibraGro
* 2 tbsp. powdered spirulina
* 1 tbsp Super Selco

Method

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

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

A great way to portion the meals are by using ice cube trays, and for smaller cubes you can use egg crate.

 

[danthemanj]

Why don't we have a Group food making...I know it doens't sound right but that's what came to my mind. All these ingredients are more than enough to make food for several months for several tanks. So if we bought all the ingredients and split the costs, we would have the best food, in the quantity we need, for a fraction of the cost of doing it ourselves.....

Suggestions ?

 

[momof6kids]

That would be great. Count me in. Anyone else interested??

 

[harryk]

hey just as a neat little tip. If you use eggrcrate instead of ice cube trays as a mold to freeze your home made food in it will come out in great little cubes for perfect individual feeding squares just like the store bought cubes. hope this helps

Harry

 

[Olivier]

thank you all for answering my question.
Dan and Erna, Count me in if you want to do the group buy
Olivier

 

[NEWSALT]

I'd be in.

 

[danthemanj]

Great. I'll research where to get all the ingredients from and then come up with a game... I mean mixing plan

 

[danthemanj]

OK, Here is the recipe list. I spec'd everything out with purchases from Drs. Foster and Smith because of their prices and shipping prices and it works out to approx. $200 all inclusive for about 12.5 lbs of the most nutritious reef food money can buy. Please feel free to make suggestions for additions/subtractions to the recipe.

salmon with skin - 1 lbs 1
halibut - 1 lbs 1
cod - 1 lbs 1
shrimp - 1 lbs 1
clams - 3.5oz tray 2
squid - 8oz flat packs 2
krill - 16 oz flat pack 1
silversides - 4oz flat packs 2

brine shrimp - 16oz flat pack 1
blood worms - 3.5oz cubes 1
frozen formula 1 - 7oz tray 1
frozen formula 2 - 7oz tray 1
frozen prime reef food - 7oz tray 1
frozen Reef Phytoplankton - 3.5oz tray 1
Freeze Dried cyclopeeze - 30 grams 1
Coral Frenzy - 28 gram box 1
Nutramar Ova Prawn Eggs - 100 grams flat pack 1

O.S.I. Spirulina Flakes - 1.09oz container 1
Julian Sprung - green seaweed - 30 grams bag 1
Julian Sprung - purple seaweed - 30 grams bag 1
Kent Chromax Liquid phytoplankton - 30ml bottle 1

Kentgarlic extreme - 1oz bottle 1
Selcon - 60ml bottle 1
SeaChem Reef Plus Multivitamin - 250ml bottle 1

 

[danthemanj]

Anybody else interested in joining in ???

 

[danthemanj]

OK, 'Malulu' said he'd get in....any more?

 

[malulu]

Re: Fish Food Recipe - Group Buy

may be change the subject line - would help??

 

[MikeNapoli]

I would get in on this but i'll wait till next round. I have a pile of Rod's reef left.

 

[vangvace]

Count me in as a maybe. Depends on when the fixin' mixin' is going to happen.