Fish Food Recipe

[jrnannery]

Has anyone seen this recipe, and does anyone use it? By the way, all credit to the author, Eric Borneman.

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.

[TaknByD]

Sounds like a ton of food, and one heck of a grocery list...

[tebstan]

- a whole fresh sea fish

Hmm...

I haven't used this recipe, but I have made one involving cod, lean beef, centrum vitamins, peas, and paprika.

It was awful.

The fish loved it! But it ruined my blender, and it was a nasty mess I don't recommend to anyone using standard equipment unless they have a lot of time on their hands.

I was given this awesome recipe by a breeder, but he uses industrial strength meat grinders. I figured, eh, whats the difference? And promptly burned out my blender. The second time around I blended the cod in very, very small bits. I avoided setting the blender on fire, but it was still never the same.

When fish is blended, it turns to glue.

The fish *loved* it. But I'd never do it again.

[allan]

I make my food the same way, but never thought to use a fish... or even some of the peas you mention above.

I'll have to try that next time. I don't liquify my mess, more of a puree, but I do for the purpose of coral food. And the coral is LPS, not so much the other coral that requires the really fine stuff.

Going to have to give it a shot. Can I get by with fish meat, or is he doing the whole fish to include bones and guts?

[tebstan]

I used a boneless filet of cod and a few whole shrimp, both raw and rinsed. Adding bones and guts would probably be beneficial if it were truly pureed, but only a nuisance otherwise. I suppose that's why centrum vitamins were included in the recipe I was given, though it was for discus, not marine fish.

Make sure not to include beef in most fish recipes. Beef heart is best, but it is only digestible at the high temperatures that discus are usually kept at. The paprika is supposed to help as a natural preservative and appetite stimulant. (So I'm told. Sounded good to me.)