Who makes thier own food?

My feeding routine is 1 pinch of flakes, a cube of brine and a cube of mysis nightly. I feel like that routine leaves much to be desired nutritionally.

I was prospecting the idea of creating my own fish food out of squid, shrimp, clams etc. (raw Asian seafood meadley), but wasn't sure how fish like a tang, 6-line, damsel, anthias and clown would respond. Would they eat this blended mix and would this be more nutrionally beneficial?

 

I dont, well I have, but not anymore. I am a fan of feeding algaes, ie nori. I feel that fish typically graze and eat the algae off the rock, therefore mostly feeding seaweed. Once a week I feed meaty frozen foods.

 

I make my own food by buying a variety of frozen food sheets (brine, mysis, herbivore mix, angel mix), a bottle of pods, and I sometimes pick up a bit of fish/shrimp/squid from the supermarket. If you go on the right days, you can get "scraps" for cheap/free! I never use the gel-type frozen foods because IME they don't refreeze well. I finely chop the supermarket bits, melt it all together in a mixing bowl, and pour into the original sheet bags or zip lock bags. Make sure to keep your sheets really thin, otherwise you'll be kicking yourself later because you can't break the darn things apart. Place them on a cookie sheet in the freezer for nice flat, healthy fish food! I store them in a brown paper bag in the freezer, and only have to make this about 2x year.

Tip: You can try freezing them on a cooling rack, or roasting rack on top of the cookie sheet. This will create nice perforations that make the sheets easier to break

 

New Life Spectrum Pellets- lots of goodies in there, different sizes also.

And I feed 'Limpits Reef Buffet'- usually get it on sale.
LOTS of stuff in limpits too- I couldn't make it for what I can buy it for.

But, I do think making your own IS a good idea, I always wanted to make some,
but I never tried feeding my reef 'Cajun Fried Turkey'

 

What's good for the reefer may not be good for the reef in this case

 

I have some off brand pellets, but my fish never show much interest.

 

I would be willing to bet they'd eat the New LIfe spectrum pellets. Sold widely and well respected. I get the sinking ones, not the floaters. MY tank uses both the 1mm and the 3mm size when I feed them, usually an average of once a day with these, all the fish, goby, etc, goes right after them. YOu can stick them on the BTA's and they eat it too!

 

I feed larrys reef frenzy which is essentially what you are talking about making. I also am a huge fan of NLS pellets. All my fish love both types of food and I have 3 tangs, 6 wrasse and 4 anthias among my 25 fish.

I use the marine sinking and have recently used the .5 mm small fish formula for my juvenile leopard wrasses that couldn't get the marine pellets in their mouths.