Feeding with our homemade foods
We love making homemade fish food! We offer a variety of homemade foods. In general, you should only feed enough for your fish to eat in 30 seconds, every other day. Fish do not need to eat daily and excess waste can cause to algae, dirt, unhappy plants, and even ammonia spikes and sick fish. Here’s some more info on each of our products:
Bottom Feeder Brittle
This is a food meant for bottom feeders, but all fish will enjoy it! I generally add a flake about the size of the average fish in that tank- like if most of the fish are about 2” long, I’ll toss in a piece about 2” long. This food is very inexact, I just make sure I add enough for my bottom feeders to get their fair share. It also works great broken up into smaller pieces.
Scurvy Snacks
Feed just like any other fish food- a small pinch, every other day, enough for your fish to eat in about 30 seconds. Doesn’t have to be an exact science. I always try to pick up some chunks in each pinch so theres a good mixture of floating, slow sinking, and fast-sinking food for everyone in the tank.
Growth Grub
Growth Grub is our unique product that mixes homemade fish food and powdered fertilizer. The idea here is that we include our pre-mixed full range fertilizer mixed into the food, portioned so that each pinch provides roughly the correct amount of fertilizer needed. While its okay to feed daily, we mix and portion growth grub for feeding every other day, which is generally beneficial anyway.
To properly use Growth Grub, just provide a pinch of food into your tank every other day (or a smaller pinch daily). Obviously, smaller tanks will have less fish and thus need less food, while larger tanks will have more fish and need more food, so just feed the right amount for your fish so that they eat all the food within 30 seconds. This will provide your plants great nutrients and they should be perfectly happy! Keep an eye on your plants and dose with additional fertilizer if necessary.
The powdered fertilizer is perfectly okay for your fish. We’ve fed hundreds of tanks and thousands of fish with this and we’ve never seen a fish hurt from this food. Occasionally a fish will gobble up a piece of fertilizer, but they’ll immediately spit it out upon realizing it isn’t food. Even if they do happen to swallow it, it’ll simply dissolve and pass through them. No need to worry.
