I have been feeding my trophs this mix some time now, used a different mix earlyer and this batch have no agar and they still stay in a cube hape in the tank and don't desolve that easy. There is most likely a direction on the agar on how much you should use per gallon of liquid, go with half maybe as the shrimp mix is already more or less gooey when done. Hope someone out there can use have not tested the agar myself yet, but I would devide the shrimp mix in portions and test a little. With this I hope I will be able to make it into a gel that I can cut in squares and freeze, and that way jump step #7. I have ordered some agar home as gelatin isn’t good for trophs, agar is gelling agent made from red algae and should be okay to feed the fish. Good advice – clean up as you go from step to step! Everything is very easy to wipe up and clean up when you spill it, but once it’s dry it sticks like glue.
The bags shouldn’t be solid frozen yet but getting there and you can easily cut the sheets into squares, put them in a zip bag and in to the freezer and the next day it’s ready to feed with. You can use ice cube trays if you likeĪfter 5-6 hours freezing time, give it a feel once in a while as every freezer is different. Last I pourd the mixture into zip-lock freezer bags, sucked the air out of the bag and flattened it before I put them in the freezer. Smoothing the kale and shrimp out, mixing the spirulina and paprika well into the whole deal. Now we are almost done, last before I bagged it all I gave it a last run thru the food processor. Stir a little, till it’s no longer dusty. The shrimps need to be frozen solid to be shredded, but it’s a very easy job done.Įverything should be blended and mixed together in the large bowel or pot, now you add the paprika and the spirulina. The kale have been removed from the stalk, chopped and frozen in small balls, they are not as good as fresh kale but a lot easier to work with. Shredding the frozen kale and shrimps, this is why the shrimps were returned to the freezer. Chop the spinach with a big kitchen knife and blend it with the garlic and mix in pea and bean puree or make it into puree with a food processor, then mix the whole deal together in the big bowel. It’s better to use a little too much water then to little, as your blender will heat up and you risk killing it. Peal the whole garlic I use Egyptian garlic, the cloves are not covered with skin, so it’s a lot easier to peal then regular garlic.īlend the peas, beans along with a little water, I add ½ cup of water for the peas and ½ cup for the beans give or take.
Wash your veggies, I also was the frozen peas and green beans, getting them ready to use in different bowls. So back into the freezer with them as soon as possible I removed the shrimp tails quick under cold running water, as I’m going to freeze them again and it’s not safe to freeze shrimps again after they have been defrosted.