get seaweed for the veggies.. maybe kelp but spirulina is best. GF only incidently
eat "greens", they are going for the little animals living off the greens. the water
based veggies dont have the cellulose and are more digestible. what you can do is
put a couple grains of cooked white rice in the middle, a pinch of spirulina. that
will provide a "clearing" agent at the end of their meal and some nutrients. stick
with the inside of cooked peas to clean em out too. Ingrid

(Darth Jenn) wrote:

You aren't kidding about the price of fish food vs. human-grade food.
I had no idea. The money I could have saved!!! The SF Bay Gumdrops are
ten bucks for a 100 pack, and most of that is water and veggies. I
made my own very small "gumdrops" today out of fake crab purchased for
$2.79, and I got much, much more than 100 servings. I just put it
through a well-rinsed food processor, balled it up, and popped it into
the freezer. It turns out I didn't need gelatin to make my own food.
(Unless there is a nutritional component there that I don't know
about!) I have fed the "crab" twice today and both fish went nuts with
happiness, and NO floating. Mrs. Fish has never looked better.

I am going to do the same homemade ball thing with some "human-grade"
bay shrimp as well. I like to feed the fish some veggies, too,
lettuce, broccoli, or peas a few times a week. (Although I know lots
of people don't, it has worked well for me, especially with the
chronic floating issues.)

Do I need to add anything else to their diets, or will shrimp, "crab"
and occasional veggies be sufficient, balanced nutrition? I really do
not want to risk even the smallest amount of pellets again. It's hard
on my fish. . .and perhaps even harder on me.



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