Fish food

[impur]

i've seen similar recipes, but most of them involved beefheart as well. Supposed to be excellent for the fish and brings out the colors very nicely.

 

[mrV]

You can find more recipe, real "Räkmix" recipe, using Google: http/www.google.fi/search?hl=fi&ie=ISO-8...&q=r%E4kmix&lr=

Sorry, but I haven't found any in english.

but most of them involved beefheart as well

Some hobbiests use meat from warmblood animals. But because they contain fat, heart too although less than meat, don't put those into food. You can also use frozen saithe. If you give meat to your fishes, they get ill easily - fat remains e.g. fishes' liver and liver doesn't work ok after that. Fat causes different internal illness.

Here you can find one recipe (in finnish) http/www.uta.fi/~sk63895/akvaario/rakmix.html

finnish = english
katkarapuja = shrimps
vähärasvaista kalaa (pakastesei) = low fat fish (saithe frozen)
kananmunia = eggs
herneitä = peas
sitruunamehua = lemon juice
porkkanaa = carrot
banaania = banana
Spirulina-tabletteja (jauhettuina) = spirulina tablets (powder/grinded)
ADE-vitamiinitippoja = ADE-vitamin drops (or just grinded vitamines)
liivatejauhetta/lehtiä = gelatine (powder or leaves)

Tavallinen annos / Kasvissyöjille / Poikasille
Ordinary portion / for herbivore / for youngs

It will be good, if you check first do your fishes eat e.g. banana, because first time when I did Räkmix, fishes didn't eat it They did not like banana

 

[Great Lakes]

My missus has our recipe somewhere, I will have her find it and I post it.

 

[totalbolshevik]

cod liver oil

Oh, I dunno, Semper. It's not that bad. Keeps you regular. hehe

 

[totalbolshevik]

Here's a recipe that I found in a book. I don't know if it's any good, though, cuz the book's pretty old.

1 lb. of beef
4 eggs
1/2 lb. dog biscuit (The "mixed meaty kind?")
1 teaspoon cod liver oil

Grind it all up in the food processor. Cook over low heat until it starts to bubble and voila. You've made one of the most disgusting things known to man. (can fish get salmonella?) Also I've heard that beef heart is good, but you have to pull out all the little veins and stuff, then run it through the food processor.

 

[mrV]

Most fishes don't eat meat of mammals (e.g. birds heart, beef, cattle etc..), so there is no reason to give them that meat. It contains fat (even heart too) and fishs system don't know what to do with it. Fat accumulates in fishs organs, especially to liver and after the liver is too "fat", it don't work ok anymore.

Here is couple pics taken from fishs liver (where was fat, lower pics). Empty holes show places where fat was in liver.

They, breeders, feed fishes with warm-blooded animals meat (like heart) sometimes, because then fishes grow faster and even look good, outside, but inside they aren't ok.

Couple years ago some finnish hobbiest send his discus for examining, because it died without any visible reason. The reason was that breeder was feeding discus with hearts and the discus has "fat-liver" that didn't work anymore and the discus died. He put heart into discus food, they grow fast and everything seemed to be ok. Nowadays the breeder don't use warm-blooded animals meat either.

 

[AquaNut]

I do make my own food and do use beef heart. I believe MrV and I already discussed this in another thread.

I originally had a recipe, but have now made it so many times that I just ad-lib. First, go to your grocery store or butcher and get a beef heart. It's really cheap. What MrV says is correct: fish cannot process fat from a warm blooded animal. However, if you buy a beef heart and cut into it, you will see that it is with extreme ease that you can TOTALLY separate the lean muscle from any fat or gristle. I wouldn't have even attempted to make the home-made food otherwise.

So... take as much lean meat from the heart as you can safely 'harvest'. Put it in a food processor and grind it to a stringy pulp. Here's the ad-lib part. I add in a combination of spinach, peas, whole, fresh shrimp or prawns still in the shell, fresh fish filets (but not salmon - they are too fatty) - if you don't have fresh fish, canned tuna works, sometimes I throw in a couple of vitamins. I usually add a bit of water - just enough to make a thick paste. I don't add the gelatin. The idea is that the gelatin will help keep it from fouling your water as quickly, but if you just put in a little at a time until your fish start recognizing it, they'll soon be gobbling it up far too quickly to make fouling the water an issue.

I've been keeping fish for several years and have been using this recipe (more or less) for at least two years now. My fish get a varied diet and usually get one fresh or frozen food each day... some days it is my beef heart preparation. I should mention that the gouramis seem to love this food, as do all my bottom feeders - notably the pleco and loaches.

 

[AquaNut]

to make bloodworms take a shallow bowl or pan and fill with an inch of water. spread leaves on the top and set in a shady warm place for a few days. peel away the leaves and bloodworms.

semper fi

Have you actually done this? It sounds too simple! Does it matter what kind of leaves you use? Should they be plucked straight off the tree or picked off the ground? I pay $6/frozen pack in my town. I think it's time to get some leaves.

 

[mrV]

I just translated recipe, so it's now more understandable