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Making Discus Fish Food....on a Large Scale!

Visitors at our discus hatchery always ask us how we
grow our discus so large. The answer is very simple...
The main diet of our discus is a fish food that we make ourselves.
Click on the thumbnails below to see how we make our discus fish food.
(Please note that we do not sell our food
.)


Basic Ingredients


Turkey Hearts & Liver


Green Beans


Peeled Shrimp


Flake Food


Fish Fillets


Our Cooking Pot


The Kitchen


Lots of Shrimp


Our Chef


Grinding the Hearts


Cooked Livers


Ground Fish


Mixing the Ingredients


Adding Flake Food


Adding Oatmeal


Mixing the Ingredients


The Final Grinding



The Final Product


Bagging the Food

Our Discus Food Recipe

  1. 350 pounds of turkey hearts
  2. 150 pounds of turkey livers
  3. 100 pounds of peeled shrimp
  4. 50 pounds of fish fillets (non oily fish)
  5. 32 pounds of green beans or peas (food for plecos)
  6. 20 pounds of fish flake food (to help bind food)
  7. 10 pounds of oatmeal
  • Thaw all frozen ingredients to remove water and blood.
  • Cook the hearts, liver, fish and shrimp
  • Grind the hearts, liver, fish and shrimp
  • Mix all the ingredients together
  • Grind the final mixture and put into plastic bags. Flatten mixture in bags to remove air and then store in freezer.
  • Thaw before feeding to your discus.

Other Recommended Foods for your Discus

  1. Frozen Hikari Blood Worms
  2. Tetra Bits (soak in water for a few minutes before feeding)
  3. Frozen or Live Adult Brine Shrimp
  4. Mosquito Larvae
  5. Daphnia (great for small fry)
  6. White Worms
  7. Mysis Shrimp
  8. Chopped up Red Worms
  9. Glass Worms

A beef-turkey heart/fish/shrimp mixture should be the main diet of your discus. Use other recommended foods as a supplement to vary your fishes diet. Try to avoid feeding freeze-dried foods or flake foods as their main diet if you really want your discus to grow.


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