Making Your Own Fish Food? Should you?  

I use French cut green beans, broccoli, cucumber, courgette/zucchini, spinach, carrots, sweet potatoes, garlic, brine shrimp and a tin of crab meat. Boil them up, blend and add some gelatine and pour into a baking tray. Leave to set overnight then cut into cubes to bag and freeze. My plecos, corys and guppies love it. I feed them this every fortnight for a few days.

I’ve made my own. I especially like to make my mystery snails and goldfish special food. I use broccoli, zucchini, carrots, mulberry leaves, gelatin, calcium carbonate. It was fun and they ate it up.

I like to mix in the dust of the food when I get to the end of a bag or container of food. I also always mix in broccoli 🥦 with my Repashy to stretch it.

Great points thank you!

Very good thinking, its a big thing to get right food to loricaria species. I follow all you write. Really good info. Ty very much.

Great topic, thanks for bringing it up.

Guilty of in the past feeding mixed up seafood and vegetable peelings to my lot and believing I was doing the best thing ever for them 🤣 in monster circles a lot of info was focused on Goldfish and Minnows containing Thiaminase and not remembering about seafood and mercury and all that. Developing a fish food as a brand all I can say is, it's very expensive, you will put a lot of money in the bin, you will stink out your house... It's also very risky, if I didn't trust what I was putting in my tanks I have a deposit on a house's worth of stock in the fish room. You can sit and read for hours and only just brush the tip of the iceberg! This is why I have so much respect for you Rebecca because the things you're doing and going to do in the future by specialising in this bunch is honestly going to bring us into a better future for our fish.

a good one to add to your mix that doesn't cost anything and really good for them I think is blanched dandelion leaves

There’s also making sure the vitamins and minerals are the right form and put into the formula strictly in the right order, especially if you plan to cook the diet to turn it into a gel, pellet, or flake food. Do you need to use a certain type of calcium if you want a gel diet? If I remember nutritional studies correctly, you need to put in the correct ratio of vitamin A, D, and E or else they become anti nutrients to each other.

Fish food is getting really expensive here in Kuwait. At least the decent brands like newlife and omega, they've like doubled in price since the past two years and I can't order it online because of some dumb restrictions