Cheap fish food recipe

[Mack&Cass]

I made a good and cheap fish food recipe I thought I'd share with everyone.
It's really popular with all the fish I've kept, and it goes over well with a lot of other pets (cats, mice, turtles, etc).
All you need is a grocery store that gets fresh fish (salmon, halibut) in whole and cuts them in-store, some plain oatmeal, and a blender.
Stores that cut fish end up with a lot of trim along the backbone and fins that they throw away and you can probably get it for free. I just take the meat off, blend it with a little bit of oatmeal to hold it together, flatten it in a ziploc bag and freeze it.
It keeps forever, brings out the red in fish (colour pigments in the salmon) and will bring fish into spawning condition.
It's a little on the fatty side so I don't feed the fish it every day and over-feeding will cause and oily slick on your water but it's a great supplemental food

 

[Nich]

Not too mention the nitrate boost.....but it is an awesome food in a system with great nutrient export. I use cheap shrimp for my SW customers, works wonder when blended with a binder. That is a good route though for bang for the buck. ill have to talk to some folks over at winco.

 

[Villosa]

Brings me back to my old fish keeping days...it's always fun to experiment to find the best food for them.