| Making Fishfood This page is based upon a formula supplied by The Doctor. The food can be used as a conditioning food to bring fish into breeding condition. Or as a staple diet for Discus or any carnivorous fish, it could also be used for a treat a couple of times per week for almost any aquarium fish. The basic food is very high in protein which means it will rapidly pollute the water if it is over used, it also means that the fish will excrete more Ammonia as a result of eating it, so make sure your filters are well maintained. Ingredients. - One Beef Heart.
- Several Chicken Livers.
- Shrimps.
- Oatmeal.
- Blanched Green Vegetable. (Spinach, Cabbage, etc).
- Slice of Orange.
Also the following additions are worth considering, Vitamin and Mineral supplements (there are some intended for aquarium use). Flake Food, Freeze Dried Tubifex, Frozen Blood Worms, Frozen Lancefish, and so on. Preperation. - Remove all traces of fat from the meat and cut the lean meat into strips.
- Add all the other ingredients. The ammount of each one isn't critical and you should use varying formulas until you find the one your fish are happiest with.
- Place the mix in a food blender and mix it until you have a coarse paste.
- Roll out the mix into a sheet approx 1/4 of an inch thick and break it into managable sized pieces.
- Put these pieces into polythene food bags and freeze.
- Once frozen the food is ready to use, simply break off the desired amount and feed it to the fish.
Growth Food For Fry - Use exactly the same ingredients but leave it in the blender for longer so that it forms a much finer paste and feed it to fry in very small quantities. It would be easier if the fry tank bottom was left bare so that it would be easier to remove any uneaten scraps of food.
- Yong Discus will thrive on a diet such as this.
Any food left uneaten must be removed from the aquarium or it could lead to problems, This food isn't suitable for fish that are mainly Vegetarian such as Bristlenosed Catfish, Mollies Silver Dollars etc except as a rare treat. Thanks for the info Doc. |
