Repashy Super foods: Gel foods for fish

The Goldfish Garage is now a distributor for the Repashy Super foods gel foods.  Please let me know which food you like and what size goldfishgarageATgmailcom.  I'll likely be stocking several of the varieties.

104 pounds of Frozen Food

Step one buy freezer

Step two fill freezer

Step three feed fish

Repeat steps two and three a needed.

56 pounds of bloodworms

48 pounds of brineshrimp

A very full freezer.

Hikari

A few bags of food.

Eheim everyday feeders

Just got 8 more for $95 delivered! And no my source doesn't
have anymore and when he does I'm buying them too.

They now have a mounting bracket. My previous one didn't 

have this or were missing on my after market purchases.

Fits my plywood Ranchu tubs just barely.

DAZS Aquarium Feeder

Great, simple to use, well designed.

Goldfish Scramble of the day

The line up:

Wet:

6 duck eggs

1 can albacore tuna

1/2 pound salad shrimp

1/3 cup edamame

1/2 cup green beans cooked

3.5 oz package Gerber nature select baby food carrots

3.5 oz package Gerber nature select baby food peas

6 cloves garlic

Dry:

1/3 cup rolled oats

1/3 cup baby rice cerial

1/3 cup wheatgerm meal

1/3 flax seed meal

3 packets gelatin

1 tablespoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon paprika powder

Blended in several batches and homogenized, then boiled. Three 2 cup bags and one 1 cup bag.

A 2 cup cake after boiling draining.

The cake and my new potato ricer. Much nice than the garlic press.

Parchment on a cutting board with rice cake.

Goldfish scramble.

Several layers heading to the freezer.

The potato ricer.

Goldfish Scramble

6 duck eggs
1 can albacore tuna include water
1 large calamari steak
2/3 cup raw roller oats
2/3 cup cooked rice
2/3 cup raw edamame
2/3 cup baby spinach
1/3 cup flax seed meal
1/3 cup wheat germ
2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons granulated garlic
2 tablespoons fish sauce
6 cloves raw garlic

Goldfish Salad: Dreaming of Spring

My main live food cultures are done outside year round other than winter.  Everything is co cultured and I call it goldfish salad.  It consists of greenwater production of mosquitoes, bloodworms, glass worms and seasonally fades to blackwater and duckweed along with the various mix of bugs that changes with the season.

I use 100 gallon Rubbermaid tubs to co culture bugs and duckweed.  The mix of bugs changes through the season and the maturity of the tub.  I fill the tub up, put in some oak leaves, wheat straw, urine and mucked up duck water from their water bowls.  You need to get a good ratio of nitrogen (duck muck, urine etc) and carbon (straw, leaves etc.) or the system won't bloom.

Daphnia/moina are the early bloomers which usually show up on their own but are sometimes added from another culture.  As the season and maturity of the tub produces various mosquitoes, bloodworms, glass worms and etc take off.  Their peak seems to be June/July before it gets to warm and again in the fall.  At peak times I can take several tablespoons of pure bugs out.  When the duckweed is in the mix it can be much more being half bugs and duckweed.  I try to keep the duck weed harvested to keep it and everything else growing at maximum rates.  Seems about 50% duckweed cover is best, more than that and everything starts to slow down a bit.  When copepods start taking over I either restart the tub or mess with the nitrogen carbon mix to get things going again.

My major live food development this year was that daphnia/moina do not need green water to be productive.  Here in Oregon I get green water from Feb March to June in several different blooms and then again in the fall.  I used to rely solely on this for bug food.  What I learned this year is black water is much easier to make and keep going.  It's black from tannins but it produces the reddest daphnia you can imagine.  They are feeding on bacteria that thrive in the black water.  The mix above will give you good greenwater blooms but once those pass seasonally the black water takes over.  So we're trading the greenwater for the duckweed that takes over when the sun is out and things warm up.

Itoh (Hater) TVR BBR 11/10 after eating Goldfish Scramble

Itoh (Hater) TVR BBR 11/10.  They've been eating Goldfish Scramble Take Two all day long.

Just make sure your filter can handle it!

Goldfish Scramble Take Two

Goldfish Scramble Take Two

5 duck eggs

1 cup baby spinach

1/2 cup edamame
1/2 cup wheat germ

1/2 cup oats

12 cloves garlic

Tsp garlic powder

Tsp paprika

Tablespoon squid sauce

Blend till smooth.  Pour 1/2 a cup into a ziplock bag.

Boil until firm.

Finished. Ready to feed or freeze.

Extruded through the garlic press for feeding.

Goldfish Scramble

This video is of the first feeding. They've never seen steamed egg before and they love it.

Two home grown duck eggs, soy beans and garlic ran through a garlic press. Scramble in the bowl, then double boiled to cook, stirring occasionally, with the lid on.

Finished product.

Passed through the press for bbr.

The ingredients.

A new favorite feeder: Eheim everyday fish feeder

Automatic feeding unit

Having nice neighbours is fine. But do you want to entrust your aquarium to somebody during vacation who does not know anything about aquatics? We have a better solution for you:

The EHEIM feeding unit feeds your fish on a regular basis, the EHEIM liquidoser give your plants what they need and the EHEIM internal and external filters, equipped with corresponding filter media, keep the water of your aquarium clean for a long time.

You can enjoy the best weeks of the year undisturbed. At home, everything is ok. However, who will be responsible for your plants is another question.

The compact EHEIM feeding unit is operated by batteries (included). The actively aerated feeding chamber gives dry food down to the last flake. With simple to use programming, you decide when the fish should be fed. Double dosage of the food is also provided in the programming. "Snacks between meals" are possible at the press of a button at any time. A warning system informs you of low battery power. Capacity approx. 100 ml.

New: The fuction keys are now splash-proof