You can make your own supplement for general fish feeding that is high in DL-methionine (an important amino acid in fish nutrition); Start with whole salmon which is an excellent source of carotene for color (frozen or even canned works), frozen peas, hard boiled egg, frozen or FD brine shrimp, duck weed or spirulina powder, and fish oil (cod liver oil
works fine). Blend this mixture then add corn starch to the paste to dehydrate. Spread this paste on small strips of foil (or even wax paper if your dehydrator does not get to hot). Make sure you leave room for air circulation.
For a frozen food, substitute the corn starch with unflavored gelatin powder.
However, I’d recommend sticking to normal goldfish food, just in case the food you make is not nutritious or possibly harmful, due to kitchen chemicals.
Start with feeding the mixture once a week, and monitor the fish carefully: How is he/she reacting? If no signs of stress occur, it is safe to feed the food.
You can also raise brine shrimp at home to feed the fish:
I make homemade gel food for my goldfish. It’s wonderfully healthy for them, and you won’t ever have floating issues.
You will need to find unflavored gelatin, but that shouldn’t be too tough. It’s used to make homemade jelly, if the grocery store doesn’t have it, try a health food store.
Defiantly check this goldfish food forum out, you will find tons of ideas here.
Here is a good recipe site, it really gets into the nutritional values.
You can also supplement almost any veggies, just blanch or steam them first.
Edit: I didn’t use anything but some baby food veggies and beef heart in the batch I just made. I’m sure it’s not nutritionally complete, so I also feed Hikari pellets.
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There is a great article I found on fish food in general. You will find it.
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You can make your own supplement for general fish feeding that is high in DL-methionine (an important amino acid in fish nutrition); Start with whole salmon which is an excellent source of carotene for color (frozen or even canned works), frozen peas, hard boiled egg, frozen or FD brine shrimp, duck weed or spirulina powder, and fish oil (cod liver oil
works fine). Blend this mixture then add corn starch to the paste to dehydrate. Spread this paste on small strips of foil (or even wax paper if your dehydrator does not get to hot). Make sure you leave room for air circulation.
For a frozen food, substitute the corn starch with unflavored gelatin powder.
For goldfish and koi, add wheat germ powder.
Additional Info:http://www.ehow.com/how_2079006_make-homemade-fish-food.html
However, I’d recommend sticking to normal goldfish food, just in case the food you make is not nutritious or possibly harmful, due to kitchen chemicals.
Start with feeding the mixture once a week, and monitor the fish carefully: How is he/she reacting? If no signs of stress occur, it is safe to feed the food.
You can also raise brine shrimp at home to feed the fish:
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I make homemade gel food for my goldfish. It’s wonderfully healthy for them, and you won’t ever have floating issues.
You will need to find unflavored gelatin, but that shouldn’t be too tough. It’s used to make homemade jelly, if the grocery store doesn’t have it, try a health food store.
Defiantly check this goldfish food forum out, you will find tons of ideas here.
Here is a good recipe site, it really gets into the nutritional values.
You can also supplement almost any veggies, just blanch or steam them first.
Edit: I didn’t use anything but some baby food veggies and beef heart in the batch I just made. I’m sure it’s not nutritionally complete, so I also feed Hikari pellets.