Please share your easy Shrimp Mix Recipe

[Chris Derrick]

I am interested in making some but don't care to get all betty crocker on the stuff! Thanks CD

[geoff_tropheus]

I think mine is pretty easy to make..

1lb frozen unslated peas
1lb fresh whole shrimp
Bird Liquid Multi-Vitamin
Non-Flavored pure Gelatin

Blend the peas and shrimp together in a blender - Yummy!! Don't let mama see

Then put 1 tsp of multivitamin into the mix.

Then get a Pyrex 8 or 10" cake pan and mix the gelatin and mix together.

Put into the fridgerator...

After a day or so...cut and serve.

Does not last long, so I would keep in freezer for a while.

Some people put Cucumber and Zuchini in there, but I dont. You can also use spinach instead of peas, just make sure no salt added.

Its nasty stuff, but they love it.

[Chris Derrick]

The bird liquid vitamin where to get this? How often do ya feed this?

[geoff_tropheus]

Any retail Pet Store like Petco, Petsmart, and some Local stores would have it.

Even Walmart might have it.

[76dragon]

How often do u feed this concotion

[geoff_tropheus]

I dont make it but a couple times a year. Mostly I make it when I first get wild fish in that are not acclimated to eating flakes or pellets yet.

I dont make it as routine for weekly staple treat. I just do it once in a while.

If your looking for something more stable, I would just stick to the freeze dried Krill/mysis or the frozen but just 1-2 times a week or less..or not at all.

In all honesty, I really think a good quality flake and pellet food has you covered. Its just more natural or cool to see them eat something differnt.

[myjohnson]

2/3 most type of vegetables (peas, carrots, romaine lettuce, etc.)

1/3 whole shrimp.

I add flakes and pellets also.

Top off with some seachem nourish to bind it a little.

I have added some crazy things before.......I'm not going to go into details.

Personally, I'm with geoff on this one. Flakes and pellets got you cover man.

[Chris Derrick]

How about the mysis shrimp MJ you ever hit em with a treat of that?

[myjohnson]

I'm added this to my shrimp mix before. But only lightly. The mix was used to mainly feed my petros. I never really feed shrimp mix to my tropheus on a regular bases.

[Glass Onion]

Anyone ever drop some ghost shrimp in a tropheus tank?
Or fed raw scallops?

[myjohnson]

Haven't seen raw scallops.

But seen ghost shrimp being fed all the time.

There is a guy that owes a LFS here that feeds them to his tropheus. I told him not to but he disagrees. He thinks cause they don't get bloat right away it can't be the ghost shrimp. I wouldn't feed them to any fish I had.

[geoff_tropheus]

I would not feed live Ghost Shrimp, but I guess it would work. I think there would be some risk envolved if you were over zealous about it.