Gel food recipes

[Elle]

I'm looking for DIY gel food recipes for my fancy goldfish. Does anyone have any tried and true favorites?

Right now I feed them NLS sinking goldfish food and Hikari pellets along with lots of fresh veggies and duckweed, but I'd like to try gel food.

***Please, nothing that will make the house reek too badly!

[rgrling]

Here are some good ones: Gel Food Recipes

[Elle]

Thanks! Those look great, I'll try them out in the next week or so.

[hp10BII]

Did you find a goldfish gel food recipe you liked?

I did a variation of this this weekend:

Easy Gel Food Recipe

I quadrupled the recipe but added a ripe banana and 2 tbsp of spirulina powder to the mix. Goldfish loves it, it holds together better than a previous recipe I used. I have a baby oranda that flips so I'm hoping that the Acidophilus tabs will help with that.

[Elle]

Yes, I did my own variation on that one. I have a ton of huge spirulina tablets that none of the fish will eat. So I just dumped several handfuls of those into the blender with the other ingredients. I also threw in a bunch of fresh spinach and an apple, and about a tablespoon of minced fresh garlic, which made it REEK. I didn't use the acidolphus, but may add it for the next round. Once the gelatin set I cut it into 1" squares and froze them.

The goldfish go totally nuts over this stuff. I just throw a whole chunk in frozen and they gnaw it to death as it thaws. My "flipper" calico oranda doesn't seem to have any issues with this food, unlike even the really high quality commercial stuff.

[hp10BII]

That's what I like about that recipe - it's a nice base and then you throw in whatever you have lying around. I should haved thrown in garlic in my batch too, reek or no reek. I feed a cube of this a day, supplemented with pellets or veggies.

Of the 2 commercial pellets I use, Hikari Lionhead and Dainichi Goldfish - my flipper has less upside down issues with Dainichi, so I handfeed her (kids named her Katniss) the gel while I toss in Hikari on the other side of the tank.

[Shiyuu]

For the ingredient of the gel food, is the powder form better? or should I use the fresh ones and grind it?
Also, I know superstore or save-on have those bulk powder garlic/powder whatever, is it safe to use those ingredient from superstore?

[hp10BII]

Do you mean garlic powder or fresh garlic cloves? It's the garlic oil that is the fish attractant, and supposedly anti-parasitic. Just use garlic cloves and mince that, it's not expensive. Garlic powder may have preservatives and maybe more sodium than what we want for our fish, that's also why I used for water packed sardines instead of salmon.

[Shiyuu]

Yeah I was talking about garlic powder, paprika powder, or other vegetable based powder...
What about garlic oil capsule from health food? will that work?

as for water packed sardines, you mean from can of sardines?

[hp10BII]

Never tried garlic oil caps, I've never seen a recipe calling for it, so I don't know how effective it is. I'm sure it's much more expensive than several heads of garlic - and you only need a few cloves. How much would you use to be the equivalent of a couple gloves of garlic? It is probably used commercially, but they are making large volumes of frozen food.

Paprika I've seen in discus recipes, not in goldfish food recipes. I think it's used as a colour enhancer.

Yes, like Brunswick water packed tin of sardines.