Greetings from lake Baikal Russia I watch your videos on cold evenings in Siberia very interesting you can make your own hands success and make your dreams come true
I made the same type of food, frozen, for Clown Loaches, and they love it. The last batch didn't sink so well so i decided to try to dry it out. I cleaned out an old, half dried silicone caulking tube and squirted it out onto parchment paper and then dried it out. I had long rows of food instead of squares and broke them apart into commecial food size pcs. Great video.
Hey Don! I put it in a sealed container in my fish room and it's doing just fine. Now that the fish recognize it as food they love it. I still want to try the paste just as a comparison though.
I have been making home made food for years. But my short cut has been using baby food (purchased on sale) with duckweed and other decaying aquatic plants thickened with gelatin. I put the food in ice cube trays to firm up and then freeze it. I like the idea of the dehydrator (I have one which I use for left over vegetables that I use to feed my red wrigglers once dehydrated). With our lawn and food waste recycling project now active I haven't been drying the vegetables but recycling them. My wife does not like the dehydrator in the kitchen. But with your new method I will try to dehydrate my food into packets. This would save on freezer space. (Again something that would make my wife happy). As always thanks for your videos and ideas. Fred O
Happy wife, happy life lol! Same here Fred. I've tried so many methods for making fish food. This one is a little labor intensive but it keeps really well. Always a pleasure when you come by!
Hi Eric... This is really cool drying out the food. I have made gel food often but it still makes a mess in the tank. I usually only feed them the day of or before my water changes. Hope you are well... stay safe and have a great weekend!
I used to make my Shepherd dog training treats from what was left of my bone broth parts, no onions or garlic in the cook down phase. Overcooking the chicken or beef will cause it to begin to dissolve. Out of the pot & into the blender with a little broth gives you the same paste. However, if your beef bones are not breaking apart by pushing a spoon into them, they're not done. From there, onto lined dehydrator trays or into the oven as you demonstrated. She liked the treats well enough but not as much as raw chicken liver. If you toss your dehydrated pleco pellets into the blender/food processor/etc you will end up with fish food and I always added some spirulina or other seaweed type powder. Thank you for all the interesting projects; your content is what I would do to satisfy my own curiosity if I had a basement👍🐺🦐
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences with me! I really do appreciate it. You're the second person to recommend using a grinder of some sort to brake up the wafers for other fish. Thanks and I will have to give that a try
@@FishmanEricRussell no joke, i would watch a whole series on different recipes of food. what is your thought on some kind of leavener to decrease the density of a DIY fishfood? maybe even make it float
You could try raw foods or lightly cooked for your dog and fish. Cooking does diminish a bunch of vitamins. Freezing the raw foods for 2 weeks should kill any parasites. You can gel the blended raw foods with agar instead of gelatin.
What would you suggest to put into the mix to make the wafer rock hard, and last for a few days? Like a vacation fish feed brick.. I need to make a feed block for aquaculture, and the ideal feed block would last for 4-5 days.. These feed blocks are for sea urchins, these urchins can actually burrow in to rock, so they can eat it no matter how hard it is.. I just need an idea for binders that are fish safe/safe for human consumption
That's a very interesting situation you have there. The problem with binders is they will cause more problems. Instead I would suggest making the pieces larger. They are already quite hard and resistant to hydration, so a larger puck would last longer. Hope that helps
Hello, i like your channel and would love to see more of your ideas. What do you think about some of the pellets been milled with a spice mill and fed to some non bottom feeders. I could imagine it been a real good fry food, i little more protein maybe and pulverized with a mortar and pestel would be probably were i would go for that. Also, what is your thought on garlic in this concoction? cheers
I wonder if you could just slice up the ingredients, hit them with an immersion blender, and then dehydrate the result. Would it work at all, would the result be less dense, and float?
interesting we have just started trying to bread plecko's in our Guppiy tanks and getting enuf food to them has been bothering me. where are you at with your Walter warms I've been trying all sorts of things people recommend I'm getting great results with instant mash and fast yeast adding yeast 2 or 3 times a week and dumping 3therds every 3 or 4 weeks and adding dry mash if it's getting too wet
Wafers are a great way to get food down to the plecos. I've actually stopped using yeast for my cultures. I have more of a variety of cultures now and I don't need as much of each, so I've slowed them down. I still get more than enough and they smell less. Thanks for stopping by Colin!
@@FishmanEricRussell I've found instant mash doesn't smell much at all and lasts longer because it is sterile and as long you extract what you need with out getting any bacteria in it takes a lot less effort to keep them good for a long time and adding a very small amount of yeast seems to boost their reproduction and size overnight
Hey Fishman! Great idea mate. Did your water smell after? I've been feeding the large bug bites for goldfish and for a out an hour after feeding they STINK... maybe because of the larvae??? I dunno. But I wondered if the fish meat causes your food to smell bad?
Greetings from lake Baikal Russia I watch your videos on cold evenings in Siberia very interesting you can make your own hands success and make your dreams come true
The biggest lake in the world and such a cool place! Thanks so much for taking the time to come by and see what I do here!
made it and i was shocked that mine sank! great video.
Glad you liked it!
Dude, you are one talented man. That's what I think of this video. Thumbs up! 👍👍
Thanks ever so much!
Great recipe Fishman....it’s like a dehydrated smoothie for fish!!
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Lol thanks guys!
I made the same type of food, frozen, for Clown Loaches, and they love it. The last batch didn't sink so well so i decided to try to dry it out. I cleaned out an old, half dried silicone caulking tube and squirted it out onto parchment paper and then dried it out. I had long rows of food instead of squares and broke them apart into commecial food size pcs. Great video.
That's such a great idea and I will have to give it a try! Thanks so much
I'm glad you went with the dried out method, If I get some time I want to give it a try. I think it'll last much longer than the paste.
Hey Don! I put it in a sealed container in my fish room and it's doing just fine. Now that the fish recognize it as food they love it. I still want to try the paste just as a comparison though.
Awesome been looking into a good use of my duckweed
The best use for duckweed lol! Thanks for watching!
I have been making home made food for years. But my short cut has been using baby food (purchased on sale) with duckweed and other decaying aquatic plants thickened with gelatin. I put the food in ice cube trays to firm up and then freeze it. I like the idea of the dehydrator (I have one which I use for left over vegetables that I use to feed my red wrigglers once dehydrated). With our lawn and food waste recycling project now active I haven't been drying the vegetables but recycling them. My wife does not like the dehydrator in the kitchen. But with your new method I will try to dehydrate my food into packets. This would save on freezer space. (Again something that would make my wife happy). As always thanks for your videos and ideas. Fred O
Happy wife, happy life lol! Same here Fred. I've tried so many methods for making fish food. This one is a little labor intensive but it keeps really well. Always a pleasure when you come by!
Hi Eric... This is really cool drying out the food. I have made gel food often but it still makes a mess in the tank. I usually only feed them the day of or before my water changes. Hope you are well... stay safe and have a great weekend!
Hey Deb! So nice to see you! Things are fine here. Hope things are doing well where you are. You are allot closer to Toronto than I am.
I used to make my Shepherd dog training treats from what was left of my bone broth parts, no onions or garlic in the cook down phase. Overcooking the chicken or beef will cause it to begin to dissolve. Out of the pot & into the blender with a little broth gives you the same paste. However, if your beef bones are not breaking apart by pushing a spoon into them, they're not done. From there, onto lined dehydrator trays or into the oven as you demonstrated. She liked the treats well enough but not as much as raw chicken liver. If you toss your dehydrated pleco pellets into the blender/food processor/etc you will end up with fish food and I always added some spirulina or other seaweed type powder. Thank you for all the interesting projects; your content is what I would do to satisfy my own curiosity if I had a basement👍🐺🦐
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences with me! I really do appreciate it. You're the second person to recommend using a grinder of some sort to brake up the wafers for other fish. Thanks and I will have to give that a try
Id love to see more DIY fish food. every time im in the garden and i find a grub or a worm i think about tossing it in the tank.
I will be trying out more recipes. Thanks for coming by!
@@FishmanEricRussell no joke, i would watch a whole series on different recipes of food.
what is your thought on some kind of leavener to decrease the density of a DIY fishfood? maybe even make it float
Looks like something even I would eat .
Healthy greens except for the scuds and scuds lol!
You could try raw foods or lightly cooked for your dog and fish. Cooking does diminish a bunch of vitamins. Freezing the raw foods for 2 weeks should kill any parasites. You can gel the blended raw foods with agar instead of gelatin.
Thanks for the tips. I've tried a few methods but not the agar. Another one I will be trying is xanthan gum
What would you suggest to put into the mix to make the wafer rock hard, and last for a few days? Like a vacation fish feed brick..
I need to make a feed block for aquaculture, and the ideal feed block would last for 4-5 days.. These feed blocks are for sea urchins, these urchins can actually burrow in to rock, so they can eat it no matter how hard it is.. I just need an idea for binders that are fish safe/safe for human consumption
That's a very interesting situation you have there. The problem with binders is they will cause more problems. Instead I would suggest making the pieces larger. They are already quite hard and resistant to hydration, so a larger puck would last longer. Hope that helps
Very interesting brother 👍👍👍 have a great day 😁
Thanks so much Vinny!
How long to cook and what temperature?
I put in the dehydrator at 70 deg C and it took a little over a day
Hello, i like your channel and would love to see more of your ideas.
What do you think about some of the pellets been milled with a spice mill and fed to some non bottom feeders. I could imagine it been a real good fry food, i little more protein maybe and pulverized with a mortar and pestel would be probably were i would go for that.
Also, what is your thought on garlic in this concoction?
cheers
That's a very good idea and something I was planning on trying. Thanks ever so much for coming by!
@@FishmanEricRussell i would love to see that
have a good one
I wonder if you could just slice up the ingredients, hit them with an immersion blender, and then dehydrate the result. Would it work at all, would the result be less dense, and float?
I'm not sure if it will float, but I prefer to cook it as this kills off any bacteria and fungi.
interesting we have just started trying to bread plecko's in our Guppiy tanks and getting enuf food to them has been bothering me. where are you at with your Walter warms I've been trying all sorts of things people recommend I'm getting great results with instant mash and fast yeast adding yeast 2 or 3 times a week and dumping 3therds every 3 or 4 weeks and adding dry mash if it's getting too wet
Wafers are a great way to get food down to the plecos. I've actually stopped using yeast for my cultures. I have more of a variety of cultures now and I don't need as much of each, so I've slowed them down. I still get more than enough and they smell less. Thanks for stopping by Colin!
@@FishmanEricRussell I've found instant mash doesn't smell much at all and lasts longer because it is sterile and as long you extract what you need with out getting any bacteria in it takes a lot less effort to keep them good for a long time and adding a very small amount of yeast seems to boost their reproduction and size overnight
How was the smell? 🤣🤣
It smells like green.
Hey Fishman! Great idea mate. Did your water smell after?
I've been feeding the large bug bites for goldfish and for a out an hour after feeding they STINK... maybe because of the larvae??? I dunno. But I wondered if the fish meat causes your food to smell bad?