I decided to make my own food for kicks and giggles.
9 large shrimp on sale $2.50
6 whole small fish ( size of large sardines) $1.25
Raw Kale $.99
Paprika $.99
dried seaweed $3.29
8 pax knox gelatin (2 boxes ) $3.50
Total cost $9.25 with seaweed and paprika left over
Ground up:
De-headed shrimp and ground up with shell on ( calcium )
ground up whole small fish
2 tblspns paprika
1 cup kale tips ( no stalk material )
1 cup re-hydrated seaweed ( soaked in hot water for 10 minutes)
3 multi-vitamins
It made 9.5 cups of pure stink.
boiled and added knox gelatin.
Poured into roasting pan and set in fridge for 3 hours.
Cut into small squares and stacked in gallon freezer bags.
I have about 75 quarter sized pieces.
Fish love it, and it works quite well.
the only problem is that it falls apart into a near powdery pile at the bottom of the tank. It gets eaten and what's left over is eaten by cory's, snails and plecos.
I don't know how to have it bind together better...
Grind it less in prep?
Worth a shot tho.
The best price i found at petco was $8.00 for 30 nickel sized cubes.
Saved money, but it took about an hour or so.
Not to mention, my house smelled like Deadliest Catch for a couple of hours......