Whats the best way to feed baby bn beefheart?

[Dyce]

I just bought a dollars worth of oxheart(I''m guessing its the same?).<
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>And just wondered how people fed it to their
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[DeagonTheo]

Get all the skin and sinews off it, freeze it and get a serrated knife to scrape into the tank.<
>Theo<
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[nemo1981]

dyce, <
>i blended up some beef heart with a bit of water, put it in a container and then froze it.<
>when it came to feeding it to them, i just scraped a bit out under the water. <
>the water temp helped to soften up the top layer a bit so it came out in nice little pieces.<
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>agree, get as much fat, sinew and anything else that ain''t red off of it. it''s tough and it floats. Steven & Amy<
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[wrk21]

this will take some sweet talking but get the mrs blender and cut the heart into cubes, and drop them in. while your at it boil some pumpkin, say 3 or 4 cubes about 2 inch sq and blend with the beef heart. also put in half a zuchini.<
>blend well and place into a plastic bag,that is flattened out and frozen.<
>then just
ake off what you need. it will flote but as it melts it will sink to the bottom.<
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Close to a nice apple snail food I was making.......    although I added a good few handfuls of Hills science diet cat food as well........<
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>Anyone ever used whey protien powder? Looks like it would gel up real nice and it''s cheap.....   also a bit less gross than beef heart, not that it bothers me but some....

[Alan Caboolture]

Hmmmmm, may be time to repost my own home
ew formula!!<
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>1 Kg white fish,,,,cod or what ever is cheap (Skinned)<
>1 Kg the cheapest prawns you can find<
>1 Kg liver<
>1 kg heart (Beef or sheep) remove fat and sinue etc,,,<
>1 Kg carrots (Cooked till tender and cooled)<
>Couple of bunches of silver beet (steamed)<
>1 Kg pumpkin (cooked and cooled)don''t bother removing the skin, the whole lot goes in.<
>2 Packets of Hienz baby food<
>250 grams of Spirulina powder (From the health food shop)<
>1 dozen eggs.<
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>The whole lot is passed though a heavy duty mincer or food processor two or three times mixing thourougherly,,,prawns , heads and all,  eggs shell and all.<
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>The resulting ''gloop'' is placed in pyrex dishes and cooked through in a low oven.<
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>No gelatine is needed as the eggs and liquids from the liver and heart bind the mixture when cooked.<
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>The cooled goo is then rolled into glad wrapped sausages an inch or so in diameter and frozen.<
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>To feed, the required amount is unwrapped and with a SHARP knife shave (For fry) or cut (For bigger fish) the feed.<
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>I use this as universal tucker for most fish for one feed each day.   The other feed is a according to their specific needs using commercial foods, live food or what ever.<
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>Alan.<
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>PS... if the amounts are too much, get a few mates together, or divide the quantities.  But for about $60 I get a couple of months feeding my hungry
ood.<
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> When life gives you lemons ask for a bottle of tequila & salt.<
>The only danger I find in life is to take too many precautions. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.<
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I''m lucky. I have hoplo''s and they like even the mixes that frighten dogs so I have little waste.<
>Last batch was a vege mash of the 5 things that looked a bit ordinary in the crisper, mixed in some gelatin and then set it with a handful of earth worms (unchopped) and a few handfuls of bashed (put in a plastic bag bash with a
ick....   it''s fast ) frozen marinara seafood mix.  Freeze it in sheets and
eak off bits to feed.  Breaks apart into nice chunks in the water.<
>I try not to make up big batches because they take up too much freezer room. Once you start looking you realise there are a lot of things you can feed fish.<
>Some fish are fussy and get hooked on certain foods. But others like hoplo''s and iron gut mbuna seem to enjoy a bit of something new. I imagine they would happily eat food that was going to poison them so you have to be careful and think first. <
>I have an electric yellow female that likes tomato. Everynow and again I remember and give her a bit. Never noticed any ill effects.<
>Alan I noticed you use liver, this is something I have never tried but wondered about. Have you noticed any boost in plant growth with all that extra iron?  <
>Fish food sausage roll is also an excellent method. Will definitely copy that in future. Would be great to find a nice paste recipe that you could push through a screen, cutting it with a knife at required length and then bake into pellets.<
>Needs to be more variety in the home made foods. flake and pellet making technology would be nice to have indeed.<
>Dehydrators are an interesting idea too methinks. Stored dry zuccini slices. Pea mush roll up.<
>Iron fish chef show down......   and tonight you will be cooking for baby
istlys and the secret ingredient is.......   BEEFHEART!!!  

[Dyce]

Well I just chucked a bit of raw beefheart in the bn tank and it went straight away.<
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>Then I tried a semi-recipe of a pack of beefheat, half a zucchini and 3 eggs, processed it and started cooking it like alan said... but i think I over cooked it(I''m guessing so), ended up like a giant semi cooked meat-patty, I chucked a bit into the bn tank but it floats and semi disintergrates  , although I gave a bit to the cichlids and they ate it. <
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>Probably should''ve just left it in little raw cubes... unless a meatpatty is waht you aim for which I doubt it is, haha. fish fish fish fish turkey fish fish gobble

simple.....<
>Although it''s kinda disturbing how much they like it......   <
>How long do you think it would take a 6X2X2 with 500 BN to eat through a cadaver?<
>Uhhhh....   no reason.<
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