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This video takes homemade fish food to another level! It's quite long winded, and weirdly edited, but the detail and insight is awesome. I'll certainly be incorporating the ideas into my next batch...

copper harlequins go mad for the recipe i posted too, I'd love to try on discus too

water change, then next day or so a filter check

really nice, and great natural light effect. I've filmed my bleeding hearts doing their thang, not uploaded video yet, what's the best way...you say flikr was a waste of money?

yep I thing there's general state of confusion, but it looks good!

i've been slowly building a mixed community of red fish: ember tetras, ruby tetras, red phantoms and espei. they all get together and shoal which i never thought they'd do but looks awesome. Do any of you have different species that shoal together?

yep as far as I've seen. yep, just a little black streak that could be mistaken for a digestive tract kind of thing

Mr desirable has a black smudge on his underbelly

never seen them, they look amazing

They are epic to watch when they get stuck into a bit of BBA, they really have a good tug at it, the little beauties! I find myself watching them all the time...what they gonna do next? compulsive viewing for someone as easily pleased as me

Some pencilfish and corys are wild caught, I think that will be the case with the fish in question here. Personally I like the idea of farm reared fish and always check that that is the case before I buy. I want to create an interpretation of nature, without coveting it directly, that's way...

looks like it's got a stone in there!

one of my all time favourites, super rare that you find females...only when they make a mistake at the suppliers it seems

They kind of have a get together an hour or so before lights out, generally they mess about in twos and threes. Whats cool is a mix of harlequins, ruby tetras and ember tetras they shoal together in an eclectic orangey red mix

for me it has to be copper harlequins, then ember tetras (when they're in the mood)

Ha, I pretended I was making thai fishcakes! It makes sense to alter the veg / protein mix depending on type I think I've got "meat and two veg" community fish. It's great to hear your recipe served you well even breeding discus...definitely makes me confident to stay on this path. cheers

It's frozen, and squashed into a stack of thin pancakes, each one it a little sandwich bag, it's really simple that way to snap off the size you require. The gelatine gives it just that extra bind to stop it breaking apart until the fish tear into it.

Hi, my intention is to use this food long term - it's meant to be balanced and provide a rich staple diet, if anyone reading this has any doubts or concerns about this please chip in! The choices I made were based on science and lot of research of what people are already doing (discus breeders...

Sounds good! I'm sure they'd go mad for the tweaks, just make sure the live foods come from a safe source as one of the priorities of my choices was to limit any possibility of introducing intestinal parasites / pathogens, etc. Go easy on the garlic! like for humans, a little goes a long way:)

I got home today and saw the fish looking mega dandy, every day their colours are improving more and more, this is a week into home made food. They were quite a timid fish up to last week, but now they are super confident. The neons were spawning yesterday morning also, which is awesome, though...

i believe so, turmeric is something of a wonder stuff by all accounts. I was principally interested in its carotenoid, curcumin, as a potential colour enhancer. The only thing I've read as a caution is it may restrict blood vessels, but used sparingly and i reckon its fine.

Thanks - they truly are a beautiful fish - and they know it! they spend all day showing off to each other... thing is, I reckon their colours are going to get even more intense, will keep you posted...

...the turmeric was just a hunch...;)

wow cheers! The thinking was to put through a range of carotenoids rather than focus on say astaxanthin solely. There should be astaxanthin from the prawns and dried shrimp, but I wanted to also add paprika as evidence suggests this can have a greater effect on hues....and is super cheap! This...

All I can say is this recipe is having a dramatic effect on the fish! I was feeding new life spectrum before but I never saw the depth of colours that are coming out on the bleeding heart tetras - deep reds and purples depending on the light. please excuse the quality of the photos as just...

you could do I reckon - I've just made the batch into little patties and put them in the freezer, they look like fritters ready to go! I've got enough for about six months I reckon and for the ingredients used it cost about £4-5 quid. They went mad for it again today, kind of hoovering it up...

yeah and roach love a bit of sweet corn

After watching a bored bleeding heart tetra eat a passing bit of vegetation the other day, it made me wonder whether my fish were getting their 5 a day. I also think I overdid the free live food from my water butt this summer - novelty of having tons of daphnia and mosquito larvae. On a...

...good to know the grass isn't any greener with gobies rather than killis...

Ha, perhaps this thread should be renamed "small interesting fish...that don't eat cherry shrimp" I've got Fundolopanchax Gardneri, but sadly no male Cherry Shrimp, as one by one the male got them into his oversized mouth (natural selection has left me with a population of too large females...

Good to see TA aquaculture also sell large amounts of the New Life Spectrum products, under "spectrum". I love this stuff!

New Life Spectrum Cichlid Formula for me, the smallest 1mm granules - all fish love it, you can crush further for ember tetras etc. It's designed to enhance colours naturally and I have to say the colours and vitality I see from the fish is fantastic...

I am thoroughly embarrassed, don't get me wrong...but like I say, I'm only contributing to this thread to emphasise the down side of playing around with ammonia.

You're the one with the dead fish mate, not Darrel. I'd be much more humble if I were in your shoes. I read Darrel's posts and see a guy who has a level of insight and understanding worthy of respect. Ammonia/ammonium equilibria is a toxic risk, plain and simple, most go out of their way to...

Do as Matty1983 says, with the emphasis on oxygenating the water as much as possible - air pumped into a powerhead / koralia would be great, ensuring a nice fine mixing of air bubbles with the water + surface turbulence with the 'bubbling'. It's the sound you hear in an old school LFS :thumbup...

miniature psycho bullies, I bought a pair yesterday and watched them hassle everything that moved, me and my girlfriend watched them beat up an amano shrimp that was doing nothing wrong. Since then all shrimp, cherries and amanos have downed tools and gone into hiding, bless em. I'm taking...