I’ve looked at the recipe for DIY liquid fry food in the article in the link below on several occasions over the years, but I’ve always been scared off at the prospect of trying to hunt down the apparently obscure ingredients. Not sure what made me look at it again earlier in the week, but this time I decided I’d see if the required components were accessible in small enough quantities to make it worthwhile giving it a go.
I was actually surprised how simple it was to find the ingredients. The powdered egg and the chick-pea flour were on the shelf at my local Coles. Has anybody seen it in the latest Coles catalogue? The yeast (often called Seasoning Yeast in Australia rather than Nutritional Yeast) was available at the local health food shop. I already had the oil at home from a previous occasion where we used it for medicating fish food.
It was easy to mix up according to the instructions, and the small fry seemed to think it was pretty darn good. It may take a bit of playing around to work out how much to feed without clouding the water (I went overboard on one tank – whoops ).
For the time being, I’ll probably only be using it for one feed a day. The fry here get a range of stuff at different feeds and depending on size of the fry - freshly hatched baby brine shrimp, crushed flake, NLS fry starter and NLS Grow. I’ll trial it for a bit and let you know if I think the DIY liquid food has a place in the repertoire going forward.
http://www.cichlid-f...es/fry_food.php
Anyone else used it? What does everyone else feed their young fry?