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Cuo and Doc - thanks guys! That helps alot.

Martin,

Thank you for the recipe! I just wasn't sure if it had come out the way it was supposed to.

If you're worried about food-snow get a/some fan shrimp. Easy on fish, lots of personality and that sort of tiny particle food it right up their street.

The mix I use comes out pretty close to 'liquify' because I have some very small fish in some tanks, and the larger fish do not seem to eat the bigger chunks that miss the chopping action.
My fish eat it so fast that most of it does not even hit the floor of the tanks.
I have enough bottom feeders (Loaches, Cories, other cats) that by the next morning the tank is quite clean again, from whatever falls.

Here's the video I just shot-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arwtli0wQlc

thanks to Martin for the great recipe.

Lovely big fat clowns you have there!

Diana - thank you

Chefkeith - great video..thanks!! It helps to see how it looks. Great clowns!

That piece disappeared quick, it was great to see the active bunch of nice clowns, to punch/suck out holes and not scared of the large piece floating.

After reading the posts on here, I decided to give the homemade food a try. My yoyos, kuhlies and plecos love it. The platys and cherry barbs I have raised myself like it, they are used to boiled kale in their diet. The platys and cherry barbs I have gotten from my lfs will not touch it, guess they have to get used to it. Also my briggs really enjoy it, must be the spinach.
I do have 2 questions for everyone. How often do mix feeding the homemade with the store bought food? Or do you just feed the homemade?

I guess it should be no surprise the food chefkieth made went down well, but blimey those clowns really laid into it.

I rotate the foods through the week so that I feed the home made mix about 3 meals per week.
I rotate just about all the frozen foods that I can find in the stores, freeze dried foods, and Omega One flakes and pellets. I have some algae wafers and some meatier carnivore wafers, and I feed a fair amount of the Spectrum product line.
I also feed fresh or lightly cooked (or defrosted) vegetables.
I have some fine powdered foods for fry, and am careful to feed the smallest pieces of the other foods to tanks with fry, for example the powder at the bottom of the jar of dried blood worms or flakes is good fry food. I also get frozen baby brine shrimp.

I also skip feeding one day per week.

Some meals tend to more plant related, others meatier. Some are more floating things, others are sinking foods. Net result is that at any one meal certain fish might turn up their little fishy noses, but next meal they may eat double, and overall the young ones grow quickly, and the adults are nicely colored, healthy weight without being fat.

Tried it without the liver. The loaches love it