Homemade Fish Food Flakes

Buy fish food locally on Craigslist:
https://newyork.craigslist.org/search...
or buy fish food flakes on Amazon (paid link):
https://amzn.to/3ax3d5j

Playlist of videos about fish food:    • Farming Scuds for Feeding Aquarium Fish  
00:00 Title
00:05 I picked up some earthworms on streets of New York after rain.
Earthworms are natural fish food that I add in fish food flakes.
Video about earthworm in aquarium:    • Earthworm in Aquarium  
Also, I add any fresh or frozen seafood, shrimp, fish, green vegetables, leaves, or peels of vegetables and fruits from my kitchen.
Even watermelon rinds ;)
00:32 But first, I add whatever growth in my aquariums.
Check all plants in my aquariums:    • Fun with grass in aquarium garden  
Duckweed, Elodea, pond snails, and etc.
Then I add all other ingredients.
Put all ingredients in a blender.
I used to add potato starch as a binder to hold ingredients together:    • Homemade Fish Food Out of Aquarium Pl...  
Potato peels have enough starch for that purpose ;)
I add new ingredients in different proportions every time to see what my pets may like better.
That is a beauty of homemade food!
All my homemade fish food:    • Homemade Fish Food Out of Aquarium Pl...  
01:05 Add a glass of dechlorinated water:    • Dechlorinated Water for Aquarium   or more if necessary to make the blending easier.
Blend it all together very thoroughly.
Here comes the most interesting part.
I make fish food flakes without oven!
01:25 Pour the prepared blend on plastic lids of food boxes.
I buy food in those boxes at Costco, Whole foods, and similar food stores.
Spread the mixture in even layer.
And let it dry.
It takes 1-2 days for mixture to dry at normal room temperature.
01:45 The well dried mixture peels effortlessly from plastic lid.
I crush the dried fish food between my fingers into desirable size flakes and put it in a box.
Store the fish food flakes in a dry cool dark place as any normal dry food.
It could be stored as it is for over an year.
Though, I prefer to make small batches of fish food every other month or so.
02:12 Give the usual amount of flakes to your pets at normal feeding time:    • Natural Aquarium Fish Care  
Watch how your pets respond to it.
It should take a couple minutes or so for your fish to eat everything you give them.
Otherwise you may need to reduce the amount of food and/ or skip the next feeding.
Overfeeding is often the cause of most problems in aquariums.
Have fun and happy aquariums :)

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