Muttley000 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 In another thread a few mentioned making their own food. I was hoping to get some discussion going on what equipment was bought, recipes, and pros and cons of different ingredients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 If you thaw and refreeze foods. How much nutrition loss is there? I was always under the impression that thawing and refreezing wasn’t good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff70 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 ok equipment: 1) 1 quart plastic bags 2) a crank handle hand held cheese grater (amazon $10) 3) frozen seafood My son (coral thief ak aspireringlobophile) and I used Langastinos ($!5 ) and seafood medally($25) both from Costco. The seafood medally has muscles, scallops shrimp and squid in it. we removed frozen muscles from shells. then used cheese grater and mixed it into a bowel we tried to keep everything frozen and bagged it right away and kept the bags flat. I think we made 8-9 bags. if I were doing it myself I would have stopped after 4 bags as I got tired of turning the crank but I could have egged him on for hours!! lol when the mixture was in the bowel we could have added whatever we wanted, amino acids , selcon, blah blah blah. but this is a ton cheeper than any purchased food. you'll have fun, the kids may not>>>>:) music, Muttley000, AspiringLobophyllia and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AspiringLobophyllia Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Next time, could probably keep the food frozen better by grating into double bowl with ice inbetween layers. If anybody wants to give our food recipe a test in their tank we’ve got a lot and could give a sample music 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Nice! Sounds like a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XBoxxyX Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 1lb seafood mix from Aldi $5.99 4 nori sheets $.60 2 teaspoon reef roids ?? 1 cup ro/di water It blends For the freeze and unfreeze don't believe larrys lies seafood is frozen as it's caught then unloaded shipped and is defrosted to clean and blend then frozen after it's flat packed 24$ for fish food ppppssstsstttt jeff70 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley000 Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 21 hours ago, XBoxxyX said: 1lb seafood mix from Aldi $5.99 4 nori sheets $.60 2 teaspoon reef roids ?? 1 cup ro/di water It blends For the freeze and unfreeze don't believe larrys lies seafood is frozen as it's caught then unloaded shipped and is defrosted to clean and blend then frozen after it's flat packed 24$ for fish food ppppssstsstttt Is the RODI just to get the consistency? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XBoxxyX Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Water helps it blend, no water it's way to chunky and inconsistent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff70 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 water is a good idea, mine flakes apart, fish love it and shrimp and crabs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XBoxxyX Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 One of the cubes defrosted in tank water, zero cloudyness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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