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    Hi

    I just made some home made discus food. I added beef heart, fish filet, shrimp, peas and a bannana and froze it overnight, but I have a problem, because the darn thing keeps floating on the top of the water so only a few discus go and nibble at it, the rest aren't used to floating food plus the thing keeps getting sucked into the filter. Is there anything I can do to make sure the next bach of food i make wont float?

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    Default Re: Discus recepie floats

    I've never had this problem. Is there possibly too much moisture in the mix?

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    I don't know. The heart didn't have much blood in it, I did however blend the fish and peas frozen so they did have water in it, but I don't see how that could cause the food to float. I mean even after it thaws the big piece still floats and only some small bits sometimes sink

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    Default Re: Discus recepie floats

    Skip the peas.

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    Default Re: Discus recepie floats

    Thanks for the tip, will try it. But do you really think its the peas, I mean they are used in a lot of recepies?

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    Default Re: Discus recepie floats

    Did you trim the fat, valves and membranes out of the heart before you blended it?

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    Default Re: Discus recepie floats

    Of course, I was really anal about it too. I threw away about 3/4 of the heart

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    Do you have air trapped in the food? Try this, thaws out a piece and mis it in a glass of water. Pour off the water and add the remaining mix to the aquarium and see if it sinks? What were the results?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saguaro View Post
    Of course, I was really anal about it too. I threw away about 3/4 of the heart
    No offence intended, but you asked for answers without giving all the pertinent info...not trimming well was a plausible answer
    I trim my deer hearts with a very sharp fish filleting knife and get about 2/3# pure meat for every 1# trimmed. It sinks beautifully but I don't add anything to it, just pure ground heart meat. My discus are happy & healthy and eat it like pigs...
    Wondering if the peas were canned or dried?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alron2 View Post
    Do you have air trapped in the food? Try this, thaws out a piece and mis it in a glass of water. Pour off the water and add the remaining mix to the aquarium and see if it sinks? What were the results?
    Ron
    I tried to thaw the food for about 30min but it still floated, then I squeezed all the air out and that made it somewhat sink, so that makes the food much better but I would still like to find the original problem because I don't like squeezing all the juices out (stinky fingers plus the food falls apart which fouls the water a bit). Do you know why there is so much air trapped inside my food?


    Quote Originally Posted by danotaylor View Post
    No offence intended, but you asked for answers without giving all the pertinent info...not trimming well was a plausible answer
    I trim my deer hearts with a very sharp fish filleting knife and get about 2/3# pure meat for every 1# trimmed. It sinks beautifully but I don't add anything to it, just pure ground heart meat. My discus are happy & healthy and eat it like pigs...
    Wondering if the peas were canned or dried?
    No offence taken If nothing else it gets the ball rolling. Do you find any bennefit with deer heart compared to beef? The peas were just normal frozen peas in a bag

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    Default Re: Discus recipe floats

    I think only in economics...I hunt as do friends so I acquired 7-8 deer heart this past season...venison in general is super lean, much more so than beef, but I don't think there's too much difference in the leanness of well trimmed heart muscle...frozen peas...its still a bit of a mystery to me then...sorrybi couldn't be more helpful mate!

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    I don't hunt but I do have access to venison so maybe I'll try it sometime, is the smell the same or is it much worse? No problem, maybe somebody else will know something

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    Did the air get added when you mixed the items? Did you use a blender with too little liquid? Next time try mixing by hand.
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    Do as Cliff said, and drop the peas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saguaro View Post
    I don't hunt but I do have access to venison so maybe I'll try it sometime, is the smell the same or is it much worse? No problem, maybe somebody else will know something
    I've actually never trimmed beef hearts...just started with deer hearts when I got my discus mid last year...didn't notice any unpleasant smell tbh...

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