Ideas for DIY fish food

[stevenallenbarnard]

I ordered some food from Kens, and I accidentally ordered some of this:
KENS PREMIUM GROWTH MEAL: (#00 SIZE) NEW!

THIS IS A HIGH PROTEIN FOOD THAT COMES IN 3 SIZES TO PROMOTE GROWTH IN YOUR FRY. THIS IS A SLOW SINKING #00 OR .25 MM SIZE VERY FINE FOR SMALL FISH.

INGREDIENTS: Fish Meal, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Fish Oil, Wheat Flour, Blood Meal, Brewers Dried Yeast, Soy Lecithin, Yeast Culture, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E Supplement), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K Activity), Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Choline Chloride, Manganese Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Calcium Iodate, Iron Proteinate, Cobalt Proteinate, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Selenite, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Ethoxyquin.

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS: CRUDE PROTEIN 55.0% MIN., CRUDE FAT 15.0%MIN., CRUDE FIBER 2.0% MAX., MOISTURE 12.0% MAX. ASH 8.0% MAX.

I thought it would be a little more coarse than it is, I was expecting it to be about the consistency or corn meal but it's more like very fine saw dust. So I got the idea to use it in a home made frozen food. I bought a half a pound, does anyone have any ideas how I could turn this into something useful.

[imagirlgeek]

You could probably do something like the Shrimp Mix and add this to mix before freezing.

Looks like it's got some great vitamins in it!

[stevenallenbarnard]

could I use this in place of the spirulina powder?

it is good stuff. I also grabbed a half pound of the 1.5mm slow sinking growth pellets (same stuff, just a small pellet instead of a fine powder) and my fish have been getting down. It's the only food I've found that will get my 8" clown loach to come to the front of the tank to feed.

[fshfrk]

Na you need the algea. Get it from a health food store.There is a guy on cichlid-forum named pali who has a great recipe for shrimp mix. It's in his signature. Only change I would do to his recipe is instead of water use organic carrot juice....john

[stevenallenbarnard]

Finally got around to making it. i dumbed down the recipe a bit to make it a little bit more carnivore specific. Here's what i used:

The half pound of Kens growth meal I talked about above.
2lbs of shrimp
2 tilapia fillets (about 1/4 of a pound or so maybe)
1lb of frozen spinach
1 whole clove of garlic
1 banana

I got about 6 one gallon freezer bags of frozen food from it. and my fish LOVE it too.