recipe for iodine rich food

[pipefish]

ok good i tried some this morning and it was a big hit for my neons and cardinals but my shrimp couldnt' get close but i did see some ghost shrimp waiting to eat the left overs. since then i've moved all the fish from the tank and now it is a shrimp/snail only tank oh and there is even greater news, i saw a little baby ghost shrimp the size of a brine shrimp (yes i'm sure its a ghost shrimp) woot!!! so happy now, i'll see if i can get it on camera but i'm 90% positive it is a ghost shrimp. Also after i fed the fish i melted the mix and added some more gelatin, this time i dissolved it in hot water, then i mixed it all in. My result was a semi floating food so i'm quite sure more gelatin = floating food. I'm probably gonna have to do the mix over again cause it deteriorates too much, what do you think i should do? i'm gonna see if i can stick some normal oatmeal that is all grounded up to mush, do you think thats the same as the baby oatmeal? i'll see if i can get some wheat germ also

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[jake]

I would not use regular oatmeal. I think you'll be looking at some cloudy water for sure with it. The baby section of any drugstore/grocery store/department store should have the gerber baby cereal ( oatmeal).

[pipefish]

ok i finally got some of the gerber baby oatmeal but i didnt know where to find the wheat germ i was in walmart so i'm not too familiar with the whole food area layout but if you ask me where some merchandise is i'll know just not about food cause i dont do the grocery shopping and my mom has never heard of wheat germ and walmart never has anyone walking around in the grocery side but if someone could tell me what section the wheat germ is in and about how big of a box/packet it is in that would be great i'm probably not gonna look in walmart and go with my mom to the local grocery store to find it. Also when you say 1 clove of garlic does that mean the whole garlic or when you rip it apart and those individual piecies after you rip the skin off? thanks i'm probably just gonna stick to your recipe jake, i didn't want to use that recipe earlier cause i had other fish in the shrimp tank that i couldn't catch until yesterday so now its a shrimp only tank so no fish to steal my shrimp's food , but i might add a little more spinach to the mix.

[Safado]

Wheat Germ, at least the stuff I have, comes in a bottle. I would say there is about three cups to a bottle. It can be found near the regular oatmeal. It is not cracked wheat, but I saw it right next to the cracked wheat the other day. It may also be found in the health food section.

Just use the small piece of garlic. Use the whole bulb, and youd have some serious issues with the smell in the kitchen.

Also as far as the food breaking down. I added a bit to much, and six hours later it was still clumped together. The only complaint I have is it is difficult to break. I wish I had made it even more thin when I froze it.

[jake]

Just use the small piece of garlic.

Correct - a whole bulb of garlic and you're going to have problems explaining the smell.

[pipefish]

ok great cause i wasn't sure if a clove was the whole bulb or not . I might pick up some wheat germ today or tommorow so i can make the recipe soon, i have everythign else though.

[pipefish]

ok i already made it but once it got into the water bits and pieces just started flying everywhere :/, most of it stayed together but some of it just started flying off and none of my shrimp were picking at it at that time. Also i stuck one in my bigger tank and when the fish grabbed it a big smoke cloud looking thign came out, is that normal? is there a way to fix this? also was i suppose to grind up the wheat germ and the oatmeal? thanks

[jake]

It doesn't sound normal at all. The food, when made following the instructions, doesn't break up and go all over the place, clouds of stuff do not come out of it, and shrimp eat it just fine ( although if just for shrimp you can omit the peas, as I said earlier, and replace with more spinach or something else).

When you're about done chopping up the spinach & peas, you add the garlic and let that get worked in. You add the wheat germ and gerber baby cereal after this, but still in the food processor/mixer. At this point the shrimp should be all chopped up and in a seperate bowl you've set aside.

You take the spinach/peas/garlic/wheat germ/gerber baby cereal mixture you have and combine it with the chopped up shrimp goop. Mix them well. At this point you add any spirulina powder, vitachem vitamins, garlic guard, or whatever similar additives you desire.

Bag it up, smooth them out thin in the ziplock, and off to the freezer it goes.

I don't know what you're doing that is making it cloudy or fall to pieces all over your tank, but it's not normal.

[pipefish]

hmmm, heres what i did, i boiled the veg grind up the shrimp but lots of shells were still there, then i chopped up the veg and i threw it into the grinder then when i got a nice fine mix i took it out, i did this cause the shrimp wouldn't get chopped up and all the meat was on the side walls of the grinder so adding the veg would allow it to get mixed up and chopped up. Then i threw everythign in a bowl and threw in the wheat germ and oatmeal, mixed it got a sort of dry mix then i added the gelatin in the hot water after i mixed it and then i mixed everything together along with some spirula (mixed with a spoon if thats important or not). Then i dumped it all into a bag, flatened it to 1/4inch and stuck it into the freezer. Do you see anything wrong that i did? I only used 1/4 of the regular amount on the article cause i only had that much spinach, oh and i used baby spinach if that helps :/.

[Aquaseafoam]

Hey, this is a cool idea. I just made some up and waiting for it to freeze. I pretty much followed the recipe on plant geek, except I added some Nori seaweed (the only ingredient listed on the package is seaweed for those who were asking) and I also shaved some cuttlebone and mixed it in there. Hope it works!