Beefheart Recipe Recommendation ??

[magewynd]

Speaking of which....Skip, did you choose a meat grinder yet, or did you buy more fish (like I would do)?

Nope.. just remove all the SHELLS from body, head and tail.. and whatever you do.. DO NOT PUT THEM IN GARBAGE DISPOSAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Skip]

Speaking of which....Skip, did you choose a meat grinder yet, or did you buy more fish (like I would do)?

no.. and do the white butterflys from a month ago count?

[magewynd]

I don't know about for you, but it kind of did for me. Some of my recent purchases paired and I have two week old (today) fry and I hate making beefheart. Looks like I may have to get one soon and try your recipe, it looks nice and simple.

I would of got the WBs too.

no.. and do the white butterflys from a month ago count?

[Skip]

steve.. it worked great.. and held up awesome.. didn't break at all

[yusufm52]

thanks for the recipe skip i have been thinking of trying out a BH mix but could not come to a definitive recipe i'll try this one and how it turns out..

[Skip]

thanks for the recipe skip i have been thinking of trying out a BH mix but could not come to a definitive recipe i'll try this one and how it turns out..

hey guys.. i too was like "***?!?!?!" when i looked at all the threads.. LOL>.

just throw in what ever flakes.. pellets or freeze dried stuff you have.. it also helps to bind.. (bind means, it does not fall apart once it hits water.. )


K.I.S.S.!!!!

[farebox]

K.I.S.S.----read the thread about using an salad shooter and frozen BH cube...I just got a salad shooter off ebay($21.00) today and tomorrow off to find BH here in San Antonio, TX...

[Skip]

K.I.S.S.----read the thread about using an salad shooter and frozen BH cube...I just got a salad shooter off ebay($21.00) today and tomorrow off to find BH here in San Antonio, TX...

Fiesta Mart.. $1.00 per pound.. AND its been cleaned and sliced!!!

[farebox]

Thanks my brother, will go tomorrow morning to get the BH!

[Keith Perkins]

hey guys.. i too was like "***?!?!?!" when i looked at all the threads.. LOL>.

just throw in what ever flakes.. pellets or freeze dried stuff you have.. it also helps to bind.. (bind means, it does not fall apart once it hits water.. )


K.I.S.S.!!!!

I agree with kiss, to a point. I use heart and shrimp and whatever is laying around like you describe Skip, then I add a few others. I always eat oatmeal for breakfast on heart making day, cook an extra serving for every couple hearts I'm doing, makes a good binder. I toss in a little fresh red lettuce. I use to use spinach, but just switched to the red lettuce after reading something positive about it over spinach. Toss in a little garlic, maybe a really ripe banana if there's one on the counter. Honestly, I've probably never made it exactly the same way twice. Just make dang sure the heart is trimmed extremely well, fish won't eat the fat etc. and it'll just lay in your tank.

Why do I toss in so much extra stuff? Because it's all I feed. Guess I keep that part simple. Funny thing is, people who get juvies from me always rave about how they can't believe how they'll eat anything they throw in the tank. Must have something to do with they already eat it all, just mixed up.

One thing though that I would suggest adding to even the super simple heart recipe is vitamins. Hans suggests human A to Zinc vitamins from Centrum, in the portion of one ground tablet to each 1/2 lb of food being made. I grind mind in a coffee grinder. Oh yea, one more ingredient in my heart, a pinch of coffee bean dust. lol

[BigWave]

I took the plunge and made some tonight. Worked well I think. It is freezing now.

Raw ingredients:
Shrimp, raw, deviend
Beef heart (kinda gross)
Flake food that I feed normally, plus a free sample, plus baby shrimp someone gave me because their fish would not eat them, and mine would not either! (but they will now!)
Ultimate chopper for blending everything together
Toaster for toasting bread, what did you think?
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Cleaned it all up, no fat left on the heart. Removed shells and cut shrimp in half. Ground larger pellets up a little and they are in the cup with the flakes.
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Blended goo, this stuff is WAY sticky. I was not expecting that.
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The final product, with hand for comparison:
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Discus get in next week. I have kept them in the past, but not for about a year or so. I will test this batch on existing fish and see if they like it.

Again thanks for the help and easy to follow plan!

[Skip]

easy enough huh?!

[BigWave]

easy enough huh?!

Yep. Hardest part was probably finding the beef heart. Took about 45 minutes of processing, but that will go faster I am sure.

One other question, I have friends that will hunt moose this year, and they have a huge heart. I could probably get a couple of them for free this year. I am guessing it would work just as well as beef heart? Moose are basically just a large deer. See any problems with that?

[Skip]

its still heart tissue..

[JenTN]

Babies are going to be really happy :-)