Making your own fish food?

[Captivated by Fish]

I am a bit paranoid about what I feed pets, I like to know exactly what and how much of everything they are eating and I like to control the quality.
Can you make your own fish food?
Can you just have a big variety of different live, frozen, freeze dried foods and vegetables and fruits to make up a diet? I would think you can, I mean fish that are not captive don't go in search of a pelleted or flake formulated food. They eat stuff that is in the water.
If you can't what is the absolute best commercial food out there?

[Lady Hobbs]

I have made fish food before with clear gelatin. Grind up cooked peas, carrots, shrimp, scallops, fish, spinach........lots of things you can grind up. Add to cooked clear gelatin and put in in the freezer in ice cube trays or in zip locks bags.

I may whip up a batch today. :)

[fraggle]

NLS or New Life Spectrum food is reported to be the best pellet food, but somepeople say their fish don't like it I feed it to mine and they love it though!
Hikari Gold is another one that is right up there with the best too.

I've got a recipe for homemade food that I've tried, my Oscar goes NUTS over it!
I got it off a cichlids website

Ingredients:

*500 grams (1 pound) beef heart
*350-500 grams (3/4-1 pound) chicken livers
*1 can of shelled green peas (I just use 2 cups of cooked frozen/fresh peas)
*1 large carrot cooked until slightly tender and pureed

*1 small packet of frozen spinach(150-200g) (Drained of all excess liquid) (I use fresh stuff)*200 grams (1/2 pound) of prawns (I like to peel and head them otherwise they pass the shells and they end up sitting on the bottom of your tank)
*1 cup of fish food pellets crushed (soak this in some warm water to soften, they blends smoother if soft)
*5-8 Cloves of peeled garlic, crushed and minced/pureed

*2-3 packets of unflavored gelatin to bind(more may be used if a firmer consistency is desired)

*2-3 Good quality multivitamin ground to powder

Method:

It’s really quite simple, everything except the gelatin needs to be either minced or put in the food processors and made into a mince-like consistency. I recommend that you do each of the meaty ingredient in the food processor separately and then combine all in a large mixing bowl. It’s okay to blend all the veggies together. Once everything is blended up, combine it all in a bowl. Add the crushed fish food. Dissolve the gelatin in a little water (as little as possible) then also add. Mix thoroughly. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Spread the mix evenly on the trays at around 1/4" (5mm) thickness. Place two layers of baking paper over the mix and keep repeating until the tray is full. Allow to set up in the refrigerator, when firm score with the back of a knife into equal serving size portions. Freeze. Once frozen break portions up and store in a container in the freezer.

You can add or not add whatever you like but avoid corn; it is indigestible to fish and causes problems.



Now you can always do half of that or what ever too! It does make heaps of it, but then it lasts too and as I said my Oscar (and my tandanus, and my dollars, and my tetras and all of them for that matter, LOL)
I only give it to them occasionally. I know that the NLS people say that you don't need to give them something different because the NLS has everything, but every couple of weeks I chuck in a block, they go nuts for it so what the heck:hmm3grin2orange: