Making Fish Food

I made some fish food tonight. The process is pretty simple and the food is nutritious for the fish and cheap to make. The only piece of equipment that is absolutely necessary to do this to a blender or food processor.

Reef Keepers’ note: A happy marriage would necessitate the purchase of a cheap blender for this purpose. Wives do not look kindly on you using their blender to purée seafood. Apparently it is gross to drink daiquiris out of a blender that has previously had squid in it. Who knew?

The main ingredient for my recipe is a frozen (uncooked) seafood medley of shrimp, clams, squid, and octopus. This is cheap and quite nutritious for the fish. Plus they LOVE it. I add to this half a sheet or so of Nori, a tad bit of daphnia, and a pinch of spirulina flake food.

I also add a tablespoon of freeze-dried cyclop-eeze to this concoction

I begin by thawing the frozen block of seafood with cold tapwater. After thawing, I thoroughly rinse the food with RO water to attempt to rinse any phosphates from the now thawed seafood.

All of this gets tossed in the blender with one cup of RO water and puréed (sorry, I forgot to take a picture, but you can imagine). I take the result, pour it in a 1 gallon ziplock back, and lay flot in the freezer to freeze.

I will post some pics of it being fed to the tank in the future.

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