Hey, everybody! Joey here again and welcome back.
Today, I'm obviously going to be showing you how to make your own fish food.
Ah, it's really simple to do and it's really easy.
Th-he best part about making your own food is that it's simply
customizable. You can customize the food specifically for your fish.
For this recipe, I'm just going to do a very basic one-
I call it my meat lovers fish food. All it has in it is some beef heart,
some fish fillet, and
some pellets.
That's basically all I'm going to be putting in it. Now, depending on the fish you have you could do an all veggie
uh, an all veggie recipe,
or you could do some...
You know some pellets, some veggies, some fish.
Whatever you want to put in it. It all grinds up the same way, and it'll you'll you're going to get the same results
no matter what.
So what we have here is the ingredients.
Then we have your gelatin. I'm just using some Knox Gelatin. Reason why I use this is because it's
unflavored. You want to make sure it's unflavored. See if you can see it there. It should say it right...
there: unflavored.
Also, the only ingredients in it is Gelatin
Okay, this comes in tiny little packets
Uh, each packet is enough. One packet is enough to do uhh,
do your recipe. Depends on how much you're making but uh...
This is a 1-pack. It's enough for 2 cups of food, which is-which is more than enough
I'm just going to be doing one packet and uh,
that will set all of this food.
The next thing you're going to need
is a blender.
I like to use a hand blender because I use it specifically for my food. Basically all it is is a little
Blender that I could attach and turn it on like that, and it blends up my food for me.
You're also going to need a container to
blend your food up in; I'm probably going to use just use a small tupperware container and
A
measuring cup to measure out your
water for your gelatin. I'm just going to use a little protein shake
bottle the reason being because he's got these little metal balls that go in it and
When I mix up my gelatin
it makes it really easy.
So first things first we're going to blend up the food. I'm going to show you how to do that.
Okay, so first things first plug your blender in
And make sure it works
Okay, I like to start with the meat just because it creates a nice pace for me to add my pellets to or
You know flake food?
Whatever you want
Generally speaking you're going to want to add some sort of a pellet
Or flake [if] you're just using meats because there's not enough of your vitamins or anything like that
in the meat itself if you're doing adding in some vegetables like carrots peas and
What is that peretz or I'm sorry carrots peas and romaine lettuce those are the best?
vegetables to add to A
Your your own do-it-yourself food, so it's really easy to grind stuff up. You're using a blender
It's much easier this tends to make [a] bit of a mess, but I don't really mind it
[I'm] just going to go ahead and stairs here
It's going to make too much of a mess. I'm going to go ahead and switch containers
Okay, so I'm just going to switch to an ice cream container only because it's a little taller
And I'm not going to get as much splatter. I'm [going] [to] start with the meat
[I] start with the meat for a couple of reasons
One it's the easiest to blend up and so I like to get a bit of the way and two it makes a nice taste
so that the rest of the [ingredients]
Mix into it well
So that like the pellets or flakes food or anything like that now if you're just doing a meat lovers
recipe like this
I suggest adding some sort of a flake or [palate] food to it only because the
Vitamins and the pellets are not going to be really be present in the amounts you need them in in just the meat
unless you're using
Some vegetables as well or if you're doing a combination the best vegetables to add or carrots
peas and
romaine lettuce
Those are my top choices so first we're just going to blend this all up and you're going to see the pace that I mean
So it's all blending together quite nicely right now
Okay
So it's blended together nicely here. It went from the [be] [fair] being
[red] to being a more pink color that's because of the fish so that's basically all I'm going to do there
Now of course what meat gets stuck in the blade here
I'm just going to clean this out for us, and then we'll start adding the pellets okay
so we're now going to add [the] pellet to get my little blender cleaned up there [the] only reason I do that is because
The pellets are going to be spitting around in there
And I [need] the blade to be clear of Debris so they can chop these up usually
[Clinco] the pellets
Now we can blend it up this generally takes a little bit longer because you need to turn the pellets into a dust
I'm going to finish blending these up
They're getting there, and then when when I'm finished, [we'll] come back, and we'll move on to the next step
Okay, so it's now time for the gelatin. There's a proper way to mix Gelatin and
basically for every Little pouch
You pour the pouch over
[into] [50] milliliters of
water then you stir that around and add another 50 milliliters of
boiling water on top of [that] and stir it around [I]
Don't do that. I find that just using hot street hot water out of the tap
[just] using a straight hundred milliliters of water it is fine, and [it] works. [oh], that's what I did
It's easier that way and like I said it works. Just fine. So in goes the gelatin again. This is just a powder
If you're wondering, what gelatin is it's the exact [same] thing that makes Jell-o Jell-O
Angela Shaker comes in really Handy
[turn] it up to us as well. So that's basically it now. We're going to get our food ready
So here it is
looks kind of Gross and
We're going to add the Gelatin
water
into it
Now notice this is going to be the first time we needed to add water to the paste
Obviously, it didn't need water it grind it up nicely
So in goes the gelatin water
[it's] the first time again that we're adding water
to the mix
And take this over to the blender and start blending it up
Okay, so we've got our blender ready mixtures ready to be blended [that]. That's all we [got] to do that's our next step
Mix it all together
So you can hear the pellets a lot easier in here. I didn't get them all but we're going to get them now
See it's becoming a little bit more runny now
okay, so I don't have anything sticking to the
Blender and chunks anymore so I'm going to say that's blended enough. So now we can move on [to] the next step
okay, so
Next step it is the easiest step although all of this was easy
We want to take a little container that shallow square and doesn't have any ridges on the inside like
ridges around the
around the perimeter
So I just like to use a little dish this is going to make me enough food for about a week. Maybe two
for the fish that it will be getting fed to
So all we're going to do is
pour it in and
the consistency of it is I
Want to say like pudding. That's pretty consistent with what it should be now
Once you get it all [in] there. You just get as much as you want in there
That's pretty good
So it's all in there now. We're going to spread it out
So I still get quite a bit of pellets that I didn't grind up. That's fine
So that's it now
We're going to pop this in the fridge and treat it just like jello
although I'm going to let it sit [for] about 24 hours and
That should be good. I'm going to show you what the end result is going to look like now
How much food should you use per package of gelatin that's going to vary on what the you're using as an ingredient?
Some ingredients are more watery than others they help hold more water
so you're going to kind of have to play it or ramp play around with your recipe until you get it just [right], so
[now] [that] this one is done again. I'm going to put it in the fridge
Ok guys, so that's it mm-Hm fish food is done good. It's already been past 24 hours and
I've had some my fish song with it, but anyways so the the
The Gelatin did its job the reason why we [use] the gelatin is simple. It turns it into basically a [jelly]
substance but much thicker than jello because of its contents
Okay, so all we do now is
Cut it into portions that fit into a freezer bag or something like that
so I would take this piece put it in a freezer [bag] and
throw it in the freezer and
Then it's good for however long. I need it
When I want to feed my fish, I simply
break off a piece
Just like that
Sorry
and
Drop it in the tank now. It does sink. It doesn't float. So that's good
It sinks to the bottom and the fish pick Ed
the reason why we use Gelatin is for a number of reasons it's
For one to bind the ingredient make sure they stay together in the tank so that once you drop it. They don't
basically dissolve and make a mess of your tank, that's one of the downsides to
do-it-yourself fish food if you're not using a gelatin
so as you can see making the food was really simple only took me a few minutes and
I've got enough food here to
[last] me. Maybe a week
for the fish I'm feeding you can make as little or as much as you want and add the ingredients or
Whatever you want to it, but this should be basically be a good pretty good guideline for you guys to follow anyways
I hope you enjoyed the video and
That's that's it. [I'll] see [yous] next time