How to make your Own fish food?

[TruonkQ]

Has anyone done it? These guys are getting too expensive for me to feed. =) anyone like?
Sorry to upset you guys, but the glass from china didn't make it during the build. The base glass cracked as we tried to place the 4 x 8' sheet ontop. Glass is way too heavy. This one is acrylic, but still does the job. We glue'd it our selves and for those who want to build a big acrylic tank go with weldon 40. weldon 4 pffft.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/truonk/DSC00184.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/truonk/DSC00180.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/truonk/DSC00185.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/truonk/DSC00188.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/truonk/DSC00181.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e357/truonk/DSC00183.jpg

My yard =)

[Ross]

wow, thats alot of big fish.

Hopefully you are feeding lots of algae for them, seeing how most i saw were tangs or angels. Other than that, just go to HEB or walmart adn buy different types of seafood, shrimp, squid, scallops, fish like flounder, octopus, etc. chop it all up, mix it, and feed!!

[cpreefguy]

Nice! How many gallons is the tank?
I think it looks great, Im not one for fake plants, but thats JMO.

[SGTDirk]

Couldn't you go to a oriental super market and get the seaweed wraps, cut them up and use them to feed the tangs?? I know my tang eats tons of seaweed daily. Just wondering.

[LoneStar]

Go to www.melevsreef.com

Actually here is the exact page: http://www.melevsreef.com/food.html

[moneytank]

i used to get every variety of fresh seafood i could get, throw a handful of each in the blender and dice it up. not to much though, you want it sort of chunky, not all liquid. then i had some ice cube trays that were the small cubes, about a half in square. scoop all the blended stuff into the trays, then freeze them. that way you have some nice frozen squares like what you buy from the fish store. you could even put in what ever type of additives you wanted like selcon during the blending.
nice tank by the way

[blueboy]

wow, did i see three harlequin sweetlips? those things are going to get HUGE! can you say "fish fry"?

[Jeff]

HEB sea food combo,mysis shrimp,brine shrimp,cyclopeez, garlic, dried algea, and whatever else you can think of. leave the pieces kind of big for the larger fish so that you can feed more with less waste.

[TruonkQ]

heheh these fish eat about 4 sheets of nori a day on that PVC. Stupid snapper had two cleaner shrimps for dinner one nite =(... Tried my luck and found out it was a waste. I read the stuff on melev's reef, but thats still too expensive. I feed 60 ghost shrimps every 3 times a week. Then brine and mysis ahhhh i can buy an escalade going at this rate. lOl

[LoneStar]

well you buy a big block motor....you gotta feed a big block motor.....

[moneytank]

maybe try growing some culepra (spelling???) algea in a seperat tank since it grows fast. and then go to the coast to catch your own shrimp and fish to chop up.
just a thought..............

[Flobex]

just thougt i would pipe in, and say AMAZINNG TANK!!! what are the dimensions? gallons?

[TruonkQ]

heheh 600+ gallons 8' long x 4' tall x 32" deep. Fixing to add some leathers/ some corals since i havn't seen the angels touch the zoo's or green star polyps

[matt]

Weldon #40 is great stuff, but I'm not sure if you're aware that for a job this size it's recommended that you anneal the tank after cementing. I have no idea where you'd find an oven big enough to fit that tank! Did you angle the edges before cementing them, or just cut them straight? Also, I'm curious if you have the special mxing applicator or did you just mix it up by hand and apply it?

I've thought about using weldon #40 for making a tank; I used to use it sometimes to glue on the bottoms of skimmer boxes, and I always use it to attach PVC fittings to acrylic. The annealing part has always scared me away from using for a big project; although I have to aqree that weldon #4 would not be a good choice for this. If I were going to try to build a big tank, I'd probably use MC bond, which is a slower acting solvent.

[TruonkQ]

heheh i never heard about annelling the tank, but if it don't leak. Don't fix it!. I used weldon 40 the first time. You'd be amazed at what it does. I didn't even polish the side when i tested it on a sump i made. It melted the joints a bit and the whole thing became clear. Took a hammer to a test piece and the acrylic broke, but not the part glued. I had to act quick to get all the bubbles away from the side, which had lots of clamps involved. I never heard about MC, but i learned that a slower solvent would cause all the glue to gush out as you place these heavy sheets on the base, but it insures that the glue has touched every part, so i wasn't afraid it would leek. If you don't try, you would never know. I hated these pro's i talked to in houston to glue it. They gave me lots of BS and wouldn't waranty it. They didn't have the guts to do something this big though and said it required alot of equipment. LOL it took lots of clamps, big syringe, mixing stick, puddy knife, alcohol, and acetone to clean the dirty/ smeared part. The tank i built is actually glued to the steel stand. Impossible to move now =0.