My WholeFoods Seafood Medley Fish Food Recipe (this time)

[Projects with Sam]

This is my WholeFoods Seafood Medley fish food recipe. I make it enough and its easy enough to do a thread on it.

Ingredients (in order of use):​

5 Nori Sheets
1 Tsp. Spirulina Powder
1 Tsp. Rotifer Powder
2 Tsp. Copepod Powder
1 Lbs. WholeFoods Seafood Medley (1/2 the bag)
6 squirts - Selcon
6 squirts - Angelixir
6 squirts - AminOmega
3 squirts - GarlicPower
2 Tbsp. freeze dried Calanus
3 Tbsp. freeze dried Mysis
1/2 cup RODI water
1/2 packet gelatin powder.

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Chop the Nori well in a Cuisinart.
Add the Spirulina Powder, Rotifer Powder, Copepod Powder and pulse.
Add the about 1/2 the bag of Seafood Medley and pulse.
Add the Selcon, Angelixir, AminOmega, and GarlicPower and pulse.
Add the Calanus, Mysis, water and gelatin and pulse.
Smear into silicone trays or onto plastic wrap and freeze.

 

[Projects with Sam]

Instead of on saran wrap, just put in a Ziplock bag and then lay flat...

 

[rcillig]

ok so I thought I was the only one who made homemade "frozen fish surprise" haha j/k

 

[Projects with Sam]

Its like the Shepherds Pie I used to love so much at school.

 

[Rtaylor]

I make my own too. LRS Reef Frenzy is like $45/lb ….ridiculous. Even big flat packs of brine shrimp are typically at least $12/ lb. A lot of Asian grocery stores have great options for frozen seafood too. Also agree with using ziplock bags, just spread thin and lay flat to freeze and you can break off pieces as you need them.

 

[Mschmidt]

I let it get frosty and cut it with a pizza cutter, then wash the cutter.

 

[EricR]

Nice!
All the specialty freeze-dried and powder additives seems like a bit of an initial investment but I guess that all works out, long term.

Never thought to add gelatin -- I guess that binds everything together?

 

[Projects with Sam]

Nice!
All the specialty freeze-dried and powder additives seems like a bit of an initial investment but I guess that all works out, long term.

Never thought to add gelatin -- I guess that binds everything together?

Yes! My first iteration on these I didn’t have all the fancy freeze dried and powdered stuff. Just The Selcon, nori, and frozen stuff. The first time I added way too much gelatin; fish still loved them; just needed to work at them more. They came up with a game of steal the food cube.

 

[rcillig]

ya, I always put it in a ziplock and flatten it, just broke a chunk off. Learned to make it thin my first few times it was way too thick and solid as a rock, had to chip it with something.

 

[Projects with Sam]

ya, I always put it in a ziplock and flatten it, just broke a chunk off. Learned to make it thin my first few times it was way too thick and solid as a rock, had to chip it with something.

The last time I made them waaay too thick again... had enough and brought them up to the kitchen and cut them with the big French Knife.

 

[Cell]

I Was waiting for a sale to stock up on LRS again. I'm going to try this instead!

Is the gelatin necessary?

 

[Projects with Sam]

I Was waiting for a sale to stock up on LRS again. I'm going to try this instead!

Is the gelatin necessary?

Ive found the seaweed has enough binder in it.

 

[Cell]

If it's being frozen, I don't see why any binder is necessary at all. The nori is good to add regardless though!