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Seafood Mix Recipes Here.....
As most of you know I am really into BH mixes.
I want to expand to Seafood mixes.
If you have a recipe please post it.
What is important though is not just posting ingredients but posting how you prepare them along with mixing them all the way to your finished product.
If you have thoughts on why you use one type of seafood over another that be great to.
Also if you know which ingredient promotes color that would be good info to have also.
Thanks!
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Greg ~ here is a very simple recipe I got from Willie ~ I just made it actually:)
I buy ground beef, Excel brand, which lists the fat content. I use the 93/7, which is 93% protein, 7% fat. I buy an equal amount of pollack, because it's the cheapest fish available. The beef comes in 3 lb logs.
After defrosting the pollack, I mix them 1:1 in a food processor with some frozen veggies -- whatever is cheapest. I usually use chopped spinach.
It only takes about 20 - 30 seconds to mix them in the food processor since the beef is already ground. The mix is stored in freezer bags (1 gal size), packed flat and frozen. Next day, I chopped them up and feed.
It only takes me about an hour to make up 12 - 13 lb of food. The whole thing costs about $45, so its <$3/lb. I don't add any vitamin pre-mix, spirulina flakes, gelatin binders, etc
I did not use pollack however, but shrimp ~ I paid about $33.00 total!
Marie ~ :angel:
Getting ready....
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The drawback of no food processor...:(
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Shrimp, Beef, Spinach...The shrimp was like paste using the beaters!
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The vultures below....the smell of shrimp thru out the house.....
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....Newf getting close!
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all mixed together! Big pile of .........beefheart!
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All bagged ~ 20 quart-size slabs ~ and they loved it as usual
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Well look at you! Getting quite good with the camera! WTG!
I'm looking for seafood mix only.
Thanks for all the time you spent showing that.
I'm quite sure someone will use that.
I love it when people do it the way you did. Great job!
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Hmmm, Marie, when unexpected company comes over you can whip out one of those packets, put it in a skillet, put on some gravy and walla! quick meal! LOL.
Would also work if you ran out of cat food ;)
Tina
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Marie,
There is no beef or any other meat that is 93% protein. In the long run, using ground beef of any cut will cause your discus serious health problems and a shortened lifespan. (Not my opinion, but scientific fact from data obtained from empherical research conducted by scientists with PhD's in fish physiology and nutrition)
Mat
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Originally Posted by
Greg Richardson
Well look at you! Getting quite good with the camera! WTG!
I'm looking for seafood mix only.
Thanks for all the time you spent showing that.
I'm quite sure someone will use that.
I love it when people do it the way you did. Great job!
It does say seafood mix doesn't it? I am so sorry Greg ~ I can delete it if you want?
I saw seafood and then I thought shrimp and I had just gotten back from the store to make it and crap....:(
Marie ~ :balloon:
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ShinShin
Marie,
There is no beef or any other meat that is 93% protein. In the long run, using ground beef of any cut will cause your discus serious health problems and a shortened lifespan. (Not my opinion, but scientific fact from data obtained from empherical research conducted by scientists with PhD's in fish physiology and nutrition)
Mat
Wonderful Mat...just wonderful.....:(
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Talk about bombing out on a thread:(
I will just scamper off now
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Marie. No big deal. You were only trying to help. Thanks for that!
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Marie,
Not a bust...I thought that your detailed approach to preparing your food was great... I even liked the gargoyle in the last picture ;)
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Greg this topic came up a few days ago on our local board.I make up a seafood paste all the time for the koi and this is what I use.
You can make it stick together by using Knox's gelitan but how fine you puree or chop it up will depend on the size of the fish that you feeding. I leave mine fairly chunky
- beef heart
- whole Prawns, shell head and all
- scallops
- clams
- mussels
- cleaned squid
- Romaine lettuce
- whole smelt, guts and all
- wheat germ
- kelp powder
- cod liver oil
- orange juice
- spirulina powder
- garlic
- red pepper flakes
I chop/puree/chunk each meat to get the desired size. The Prawns and the beef heart are the base ingredients. The kelp powder and the wheat germ are used to control the moisture levels. Then the whole thing is mixed together..smells great :p
G
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There is a seafood recipe on a sticky entitled Food recipies by Al ( Brewmaster). It has seafood banana, 3 eggs.. lots of cool things except I might omit the peas :0)
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Graham. Thanks for your recipe. That is quite an involved one. I like those kinds. I like my fish getting many different types of food together in one feeding.
I am though looking for a seafood only mix. No BH involved.
Dpt8. Thanks. I'll check it out.
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Larry/Mat. I know you don't like BH. I thought you had a seafood mix?
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Greg,
I have no specific recipe. I try to mix salmon and shrimp at a 60:40 to 50:50 ratio. To that I add various other ingredients like some squid, clams, mussels, cod, etc., along with some flake, freeze dried krill or ocean plankton, and/or ground pellets. I include a green vegetable of some sort and even a odd piece or two of fruit.I also add crushed or liquid vitamins, B complex and C in particular. To my fry mix I also add some ground oyster shell tablets that I get at Fred Meyer's Nutrition for some extra calcium since our water out here is so soft.
Mat
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Thanks Larry. Do you blend the mix up? Then put it into bags?
Is any item or items you use considered to be your binder?
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I run it all through an electric meat grinder. I like alot of shrimp because it binds up well and seems to hold it together quite well. I suppose the flake and ground pellets help hold it together as well. I knead it by hand a bit, then just flatten it out in ziplocks.
Mat
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i just made an all seafood recipie
1 Lb. Shrimp
1 Lb. Salmon
1 Lb. Scallops
1 Lb. Cod
1 cup Spinach and peas (boiled 30 sec.)
1 Tbsp. Paprika powder
1 whole garlic
1 cup each of Ocean nutrition Formula 1 and 2
4 Tbsp. Boyd Vita-Chem
First time making food but i'll see how the fish like it....
all of it went through a food processor and then mixed in a bowl
edit: this recipie also does not just fall apart in the water
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2jzpower. That should work. Fish eat better then we do sometimes. LOL!
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hahaha they were doing the "i dunno what this is nibble" at first but now they're all trying to fight over who gets to eat it first.... so i'm guessing this was a success
and yes fish eat better.. lol i went shopping with my friends and they looked at me like i was crazy...... and then i started mixing LOL!
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Hey G What kind is the tanchu?
I will make Al's recipe(adapted) when the time comes.
I've heard discus don't eat the seafood mixes with as much gusto as the BH mixes anyone can comment on this?
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Ed It's a poor example of a Tancho Showa. The tancho mark is square and it should be round and the sumi/black hasn't come up. It's still gray and below the skin's surface
G
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ED.
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I've heard discus don't eat the seafood mixes with as much gusto as the BH mixes anyone can comment on this?
I think that comment has some factors involved like was that persons BH a mix with shrimp already? A bit of cod?
Or straight BH?
Let's say just to make this easier they had some shrimp in their BH and had been feeding that for a while.
I would think the first time they fed an all seafood mix you wouldn't see the gusto. I know I didn't.
I think the sea food mix should be fed in the morning in order to counter that problem. Go with your BH mix later. I was doing that for a while tell I ran out of sea food mix. Time to hit the fish store again.
I love making my own food experimenting with different foods. When you know they are eating healthy knowing what's truly in the food you are feeding satisfaction comes from that.
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Greg Richardson
ED.
I think that comment has some factors involved like was that persons BH a mix with shrimp already? A bit of cod?
Or straight BH?
Let's say just to make this easier they had some shrimp in their BH and had been feeding that for a while.
I would think the first time they fed an all seafood mix you wouldn't see the gusto. I know I didn't.
I think the sea food mix should be fed in the morning in order to counter that problem. Go with your BH mix later. I was doing that for a while tell I ran out of sea food mix. Time to hit the fish store again.
I love making my own food experimenting with different foods. When you know they are eating healthy knowing what's truly in the food you are feeding satisfaction comes from that.
Yup, the BH mix had both shrimp and Cod! you are the man;)
I was asking so I could figure out when was the right time to feed the seafood mix so you also answered that for me, thanks
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Now, after you get it into the bags do you freeze it?
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Yes. Bags are cheap. So I place small amount in each bag to flatten it out so it's easy to break.
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I am suprised not to see more Tilapia in peoples recipies is there a reason for this?
Mark
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Hi all I'm new here been away from Discus for about 5 years now till I bought a pair of Leopard Discus home from work. The thing I did last time for food to add to all the other stuff I would feed them is I grew Algae in a tank full of plants. Most of the time it would be on the cover glass of the tank where you sit a light. I would let a heap grow then scrape it off. I then put it on a plate and let it dry some. Don't let it dry fully then mix that with dry brine shrimp. I would put it into little cube trays that you can buy other frozen foods in from your pet or aquarium shop. Let it then dry and feed it to them mine loved it and grew very big and healthy.
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Welcome to SimplyDiscus Mixsetup! and back to the Hobby,
I can see where that would work well.:)
-al
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Mark. That is a cheap fish to use and widely available. Not sure why it's not mentioned more.
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Mixitup. That is very cool you doing your own. I really enjoy making my discus food.
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ok u guys and gals. I only see one recipe. C'mon, choke it up for us challangers:D Oops. ok a few recipes, arent there more????
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I'd love to share mine but since we are now in the discus challenge it's become trade secret 'n all that- competitive advantage etc..;)
Ok then- here's one I made the other day.
Three kinds of seafood in equal quantity (500g):
Salmon cutlets- boned and briefly blended (I like to leave the softer skin on but find the tougher skin doesnt blend well so it needs to be removed)
Red snapper fillet- boned and blended
Prawns- heads removed, peeled and cooked
Spirulina- half teaspoon
Naturose- half teaspoon
Protein powder- two tablespoons (make sure no added sugar etc)
Garlic- few fresh cloves crushed
Cyclopeze flake- blended to powder.
Multivitamin- few caps emptied of course
Agar agar- seaweed gel for binding (is 80% fibre)
Melt down the agar agar in a saucepan with approx one cup water as per packet instructions. Mix remaining ingredients well then add to agar gel and mix. Make sure the seafood mix isnt too cold or it will set the gel when you add it.
Bag it, cool it, and freeze it.
I buy the prawns cooked, and the agar agar is odourless so the preparation smell of this recipe is bearable.
I get the usual sarcastic comments from the human family members about fish eating like royalty, etc. The dog just hangs around drooling when I'm feeding it to the fish.
You might have to try a few tactics to get your discus hooked.
Tony
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Thanx Tony. Don't fret too much. I have only been keeping discus since may, Many others have much more experience than me. :o
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Mine is a little different every time. No "true" recipe.. I always use shrimps, garlic, vitamines high in Ca & Mg, lots of pure spirulina flakes as binder. I usually just mix a melody of fish taken, what is considered " by catch" from the local fish plant which includes squid often!! Bonus for me too ( calaramari yum). Occasionally I'll through in a piece of salmon or scallops if they are on sale! LOL.
All the fish I keep eat this.
Pierre
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Pierre,
Drop me a Pm my friend, its been ages since we talked.. we need to catch up..... I've missed you! Its great seeing you posting again.
-al
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Tilapia is a freshwater species and it would be best to omit from discus feed, as would catfish, trout, and any other freshwater species, including landlocked salmon from freshwater lakes. Parasite and disease transmission would be the main reason.
Mat