GIRS CR/IC DIY Food Event

It's JJ's recipe.
It's available in our Wiki:
http://www.greateriowareefsociety.org/Resources/GIRSWiki/tabid/163/Default.aspx?topic=JJs+Food+Recipie
-JB

 

You have to rinse it and blend it. It's quite a bit of work and it will cost you around $300 for all of the ingredients, but it would last someone a long, long time.

You freeze it into thin flat blocks using plastic bags (you can use egg crate if you want to make small uniform squares). You break off a little chunk and thaw it in some tank water (some people choose to rinse again, but I don't). Then you either target feed with it or just dump it in your tank.

-JB

 

at the grill-out we were talking about doing another one of these. Hopefully our CR leadership can coordinate something in the next few months.

-Justin

 

I've still got a couple bags to sell of our mix we made in February if you're interested.

Here's all the stuff we ended up using:
1 oz. PhytoPlan(dry)
1 oz. ZoPlan(dry)
1 oz. Coral Frenzy(dry)
.5 oz Decapsulated Brine Shrimp
10 oz. Marine Snow
2 oz. Selcon(liquid)
80 oz. Small Mysis Shrimp(frozen)
32 oz. Jumbo Mysis Shrimp(frozen)
16 oz. Krill(frozen)
8 oz. Rotifers(frozen)
8 oz. Squid(frozen)
750 grams Cyclop-eeze
16 oz. Fresh Shrimp
8 oz. Fresh Mussel
8 oz. Fresh oyster
8 oz. Fresh Scallops
2 Packages of nori
Medium bag of frozen peas
Medium bag of frozen/diced broccoli
1/2 Bag of fresh spinach
1 head of fresh garlic

 

looks like about 15lbs of food give or take. id need a freezer just for fish food.

 

These recopies make *A LOT* of food and it's very nutrient rich. For that reason, some people don't like using as their primary fish food. Maybe used flakes or pellets for the fish and supplement with that on occasion. Others use it all the time. You know your tank best.

--AJ

 

+1 with Strong for another DIY food meeting. I got about 3lbs of the last one we did, and I think that stuff was awesome. Hope we can get another one going soon.

Troy