Recipe:
1 pound of white fish fillet ~$1
1 pound of shellon shrimp ~$2
1 banana ~$0.20
3/4 lb frozen spinach ~$2
6 sachets of knox gelatin ~$2 (boxes come with 4 sachets each)
garlic ~$0.75
2 V8 originals ~$1.50
1 gallon zippered bags ($1.50)
enough for around 8 flats of food (more then enough to last most fish keepers a couple months) and that works out to $10-15 depending on any extras added and $1.40 a flat of food.
Blend all of it until it gets the consistency of a smoothie making sure to add V8 to it as everything blends a lot easier when it is submerged in a little liquid. Take it all and throw it in a large pan and low heat, stirring it occasionally.
While it is on low heat, boil 1 1/2 cups of water. Disolve most of the 6 satchets of gelatin in 1/2 a cup cool water and then pour the boiling water over the cool water and stir. Once it is all disolved, add it to the pan with all the ingridients in it. Mix it up completely so that all the gelatin is mixed in.
Place around 5-6 LARGE spoonfulls (i used 5 ladel fulls
) in a 1 gallon bag (i prefure zipper kind) then flatten the bag until the mix is up to 4/5 of the bag and evacuate all the rest of the air and shut the bag. Then lay the bags flat to cool. You should get around 7-8 'flats' of the stuff. Once it has cooled, lay them on a cookie sheet or large cutting board and place in the freezer. Once they have frozen (probably over night) you can take out the cookie sheet or cutting board and store the flats vertically to save space.
My fish all LOVE the food and the gelatin keeps it together so it hardly clouds the water at all.
This mix is high in protein because of the shrimp, whitefish and surprisingly gelatin, has veggies in the mix from spinach and V8 and is easy to add extra vitamins to via a product such as Ken's vitamin soak.
Basically you can make this fit any fishes need by substituting ingridients, all you have to keep is the ballpark amount and the gelatin. ie: if you are feeding to a herbivore substitute carrots, peas, broccoli or any other good cheap vegitables in for the shrimp and whitefish.
If you want i can add some pictures of it, but i don't think its needed and i'm lazy
