I buy a bag of cheap frozen seafood variety (shrimp, scallop, clam, squid, etc) pieces at Super 88 and then blend it up and freeze it in little cubes. I also feed mysis once in a while just to mix things up. (All of my fish are meat eaters.)
I used PE Mysis, clams, squid, krill, silversides, and rinse and chop them up. I then soak it with garlic, vit, and add alittle cyclopeze for good measure. I take a cookie sheet, and put a sheet of egg crate in there, scrape the food across the top, and I have frozen cubes.
Why should I (any of us) continue to pay for the store version which is likely less nutritious and full of water and gelatins. Thanks for the idea and tutorial.
I think I have a quick project for this weekend. That is, other than carving a few pumpkins with the kiddos.
Otherwise - it really seems I am feeding a lot more often than most of the rest of us. That said, thus far (2 years) it has not been an issue either.
BRS fish goo recipe is probably better. I guess mine might be lazy man's fish goo. You could easily just buy some of this at the seafood section of a grocery store, but at Super 88 in one of the freezers they have this bag with like a few pounds of frozen random seafood variety bits. I think it's shrimp, scallop, squid and clams. Also it has fake crab meat, but I toss that out. It's super cheap and I just thaw it and blend it and then freeze it. I started keeping the plastic containers from the frozen mysis and such and I actually fill those and freeze them. Prior to that I would freeze it in a thin layer on a sheet pan and then cut into squares, but that's pretty annoying doing all of that cutting.Hey Jocko - can you give me a better idea what exactly you buy to cut-up, blend, and freeze on your own. Why buy all this stuff if I can make my own.
To that end, what do you use to make your cubes, i.e. what size cube?
Thanks