Let's Talk About Fish Food!

[rtparty]

Making my own food was a major turning point for me with fish health and success keeping them.

I mostly followed the BRS frozen reef chili recipe but left out a lot of the expensive exotic stuff on their list

I sold off my stock when I sold my tank but with my new 100g going, I will be making more. I found it to be $15-20 a bag to make but it was far better than anything else on the market. Super nutrient dense and rich

 

[Laughterman]

I would disagree with you on the first point there.

I would agree if you were comparing it to a big box company and pellet food. They probably know the nutrient requirements better, and their pellets are probably more nutrient dense.

But with foods such as Larry's or Rod's, the DIY versions are essentially the same thing as we just take the same ingredients and make it ourselves. If you look at the ingredients in LRS, and compare it to any good DIY recipe, they are pretty much 1:1 or with comprable subsitutions in the DIY recipe.

Here is the LRS ingredients list:

• Fresh Wild Caught Scallop
• Fresh Wild Caught, Hand Peeled Shrimp
• Fresh Wild Caught Ocean Perch and Whitefish
• Premium Mysis Shrimp
• Squid
• E. Pacifica Krill
• Fresh Shucked Oysters and Clams
• Zooplankton, Rotifers, Live Phytoplankton
• Green and Purple Seaweed (Porphyra)
• Premium Piscine Energectics Mysis Shrimp
• Oyster Eggs and Ovarian Tissue
• Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (Selco)
• Buffered ascorbic acid added as an antioxidant
• D. Salina algae (With beta carotene to boost pigmentation, immunity)
• LRS Probiotics

There is nothing special there except maybe the probiotics which you can add in yourself if you want.

Now when it comes to digging up random worms from the New Jersey beach, that I find a bit more scary, but if it works, it works!

 

[Laughterman]

I would disagree with you on the first point there.

I would agree if you were comparing it to a big box company and pellet food. They probably know the nutrient requirements better, and their pellets are probably more nutrient dense.

But with foods such as Larry's or Rod's, the DIY versions are essentially the same thing as we just take the same ingredients and make it ourselves. If you look at the ingredients in LRS, and compare it to any good DIY recipe, they are pretty much 1:1 or with comprable subsitutions in the DIY recipe.

Here is the LRS ingredients list:

• Fresh Wild Caught Scallop
• Fresh Wild Caught, Hand Peeled Shrimp
• Fresh Wild Caught Ocean Perch and Whitefish
• Premium Mysis Shrimp
• Squid
• E. Pacifica Krill
• Fresh Shucked Oysters and Clams
• Zooplankton, Rotifers, Live Phytoplankton
• Green and Purple Seaweed (Porphyra)
• Premium Piscine Energectics Mysis Shrimp
• Oyster Eggs and Ovarian Tissue
• Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (Selco)
• Buffered ascorbic acid added as an antioxidant
• D. Salina algae (With beta carotene to boost pigmentation, immunity)
• LRS Probiotics

There is nothing special there except maybe the probiotics which you can add in yourself if you want.

Now when it comes to digging up random worms from the New Jersey beach, that I find a bit more scary, but if it works, it works!

I make mine the same, but I'm also put in garlic and a bit of ginger with the mix. Fish are very healthy and love the food and the soft and leather corals are growing like crazy.

 

[bluemon]

I make mine the same, but I'm also put in garlic and a bit of ginger with the mix. Fish are very healthy and love the food and the soft and leather corals are growing like crazy.

I wouldn’t put terrestrial plants in the mix, especially ones backed by pseudoscience like garlic and ginger.

Garlic especially have been shown to cause long term liver damage in fish.

 

[drukkosz]

Very nice - what’s your ratios of each different part of it?

What type of fish are you feeding

I didnt use any ratios. I eyeballed the proportions.
The goal was to create a food that every fish will eat! I have tangs, copperband, wrasses (leopard, tonaka) pair of dragonets, anthias, gobbies, blennies, and the list goes on. 4 tanks total, including lion fish.

All the fish are extremely healthy and the colors are brighter then ever.
This proves it all:

 

[drukkosz]