Welcome To My Newsletter Series. In this newsletter letter series I will provide you with information about keeping tropical fish. The information contained in the newsletter comes from my passed experiences while working with fish, conversations I've had with friends and other tropical fish lovers, as well as knowledge I gain while researching material to write the book. So as you can see that the content comes from a number of sources, which I think make for a well rounded newsletter series.
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HOMEMADE FISH DIETS
Many people prefer to make their own homemade fish diets, which is perfectly fine. As you will discover in this newsletter, making homemade fish food is easy, affordable, and often much higher in nutrients. These recipes are great and take little time to make.
Coral Food Recipe
High in nutrients, this recipe is great if you keep coral in your aquarium.
Soak ¼ cup each of red, green, and brown seaweed in dechlorinated water. Place in a bowl; set aside. In a separate bowl, crush 2 ounces marine flake food, 2 ounces small food pellets, and then add in 1 tablespoon of liquid vitamins. Mix the fish, the seaweed, and dry ingredients in a blender. Freeze and store until ready to offer to the fish.
Aquarium Food
Place fresh fruits and vegetables such as yams, broccoli, carrots, apples, lettuce, and oranges in a blender. Now, add in shrimp, smelt, and crab legs with the shells, blending until fine. Add in liquid vitamins or crushed tablets. Blend until the mixture has a consistency of mud. If needed, add juice such as carrot or orange juice, again blending.
Boil one-half cup water, adding one-half cup unflavored gelatin. When starting to set, mix the gelatin and fish/vegetable/fruit together, pour into a pan and let cool. When set, place the mixture in a plastic baggie and freeze until ready to serve.
Dry Fry Food
You will need an old pepper mill, small bottle with lid, and piece of fine, nylon window screen. Then, take shrimp pellets and a small container of spirulina pellets, grinding them in the pepper mill. Place a piece of the nylon screen on top of the glass bottle. Place the ground pellets in the glass bottle, shaking the pellets out into a bowl. Remove the large chunks of pellets, tossing them out. Replace the ground up pellets in the glass jar and then use for the fry food.
Beef Heart Recipe
Defat the beef heart, which will cut it to about half. Deshell the shrimp. Place the beef heart and shrimp into a blender with the drained spinach, blending well. In a bowl, mix one teaspoon paprika, one teaspoon liquid vitamins, one tablespoon wheat germ, and three tablespoons krill, mix well. Add this to the beef heart and shrimp mixture, blending well. If needed, add water so the mixture is moist. Place the mixture in a large plastic baggie or split it out into several baggies. Spread it flat so the mixture is about one-quarter inch thick. Freeze flat, cut off thin pieces, and place in the tank. You do not need to thaw this before feeding.
European Fish Food
Blend the shrimp with peas in a blender until smooth and thick. Add a little bit of water if needed. Pour the mixture into a pan. Sprinkle on the spirulina powder, mixing with a spatula. Add the vitamins, again mixing with a spatula. Make the gelatin according to instructions. Once boiled and cooled slightly, pour it over the food mixture, mixing well. Make sure the mixture is smooth, not lumpy. Cut into bite-size pieces and freeze.
I hope you enjoyed this article and look forward to the next article which looks at setting up a biotype.
Until next time...
Katy
www.kingdomofpets.com/tropicalfish
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