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Homemade fish food is the best way to insure that your fish get the best ingredients you can provide for them. To make a food supplement that is high in amino acids for fish nutrition, you can use a whole salmon, a hard boiled egg, frozen peas, duck weed, fish oil and freeze dried brine shrimp. Blend the entire mixture and add corn starch to dehydrate the paste. This will create a supplement high in DL-methionine and rich in carotene, which will help keep your fish colorful.

If you want to make homemade fish food in a frozen form, you can substitute gelatin powder for the corn starch.

If you have carnivorous fish, you can add more whole fish to the supplement and decrease the amount of duckweed used. You can add calamari for carnivores, too. Make sure that any ink is removed from the squid.

In the tropical fish world, there are not many recipes for homemade fish food. The most complex food would be algae that you grow in your own tank (a different one from the fish).

One other popular recipe uses lettuce, apples, oranges, yams, broccoli, peas and carrots. Blend these ingredients together and add crab legs or shrimp, and smelt. Blend the mixture again, until it has a consistency like mud. Add 9 tablespoons of boiling water and 9 tablespoons of gelatin to the mixture, and then allow it to cool. This homemade fish food has many of the nutrients that are essential to your fish’s health.

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