DIY Reef Chili: Make your own saltwater fish food! How to make frozen fish and coral foods.

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Talk about FUN! The recipe for how to make your own saltwater fish food and coral food is finally here! We've got your DIY Fish Food recipe to add more nutrition and diversity for your saltwater tank and fish!
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@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

Do you make your own fish food? Check out OUR recipe here! : brs.li/FrozenFoodRecipe

@CalcioFan4Ever 3 жыл бұрын

You asked what we wanted in the brs buys marine depot stream? More stuff like this!

@mikegomez3178 3 жыл бұрын

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@sabrinabeauchum323 Жыл бұрын

I plan on getting a reef tank within the next two years slowly buying everything with the budget I have. This video is so important I have all picky pets who are old and have to have hand made food for there old stomachs and I just feel very weird not spending time before feeding everything I own to make sure everything is the best possible for there digestion track. This makes me feel so comfortable just making it. Thank you so much for the help in all your videos as well.

@scottrogerson8995 3 жыл бұрын

I wish you guys had a link that would drop all of these ingredients into your shopping cart.

@carolclayton6393 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome walkthrough. Glad you guys kept it clean and didn’t go all Gordon Ramsey!

@curt3494 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time, gents 👍

@boonjabby 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for dropping this video guys. I can't buy your products here in Australia but making my own is the next best thing

@oscaranchundia3641 4 жыл бұрын

This great if you guys decide on selling it frozen reef chilli count me in 👏👍💯

@tackleland3452 2 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, I watched this a couple of times. Thank you so much, my fish are now eating a more healthy balanced diet and are looking better for it. Mind you the Protein Skimmer is working a bit harder after feeding but it is worth it. Keep up with the awesome tips & tricks!

@AG-tm4gr 2 жыл бұрын

Does this make your blender/food processer smell bad afterwards or are you able to wash it out pretty good?

@tackleland3452 2 жыл бұрын

@@AG-tm4gr No, I was a bit concerned at the start but a really good rinse and straight to the dishwasher. My wife still has no idea!

@77bonzobean 4 жыл бұрын

Cooking with BRS LOL

@drewlong77 3 жыл бұрын

Did the math when I made recipe this years ago...(it lasted well over two years at two cubes a day and it cost $240ish? To make.. vs.. $14 a month in blister packs at only 2 years = $340 4x nutrition for less $ and no trips to store just for blister packs.

@jamesbovill1 4 жыл бұрын

Yet again another brilliant, informative video.. I’m inspired!

@rudyb3194 4 жыл бұрын

This is great. I make my own so now I will be adding more stuff to it. By the way my Costco has a mixed bag of seafood already. Then I just add tuna and salmon to it.

@freemansaquatics5326 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers guys and thank you for the DIY :)

@AndyJablonski 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! Thank you

@andrewgoode3958 4 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, super cool! I've been making my own food blend for years now combining frozen with coral foods, amino acids, KZ products, and pellets. What I've found works best for me is to use silicone ice cube trays for storage. Easy to pop out and freeze with a little water binds everything together.

@jw4867 4 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial BRS

@crankbait09 3 ай бұрын

I'm assuming you can add the frozen, dried, and wet ingredients all together, right? im about to make my own food, using frozen proteins, and the small fish recipe. I have not created the coral recipe. was planning on mixing all that together. any negative results in doing this?

@anthonyruth5606 3 жыл бұрын

Taco Bell for eggs😂😂😂

@sethpope2230 4 жыл бұрын

Question. Are we potentially adding diseases to our fish? Rods and LRS appear to be just your typical raw seafood batch, where as Hikari claims a 3-Step Sterilization Process. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced BRS.

@ericn9175 4 жыл бұрын

Which food processor did you use?

@mattwilde3329 Жыл бұрын

im surprised garlic additives didn't make it into this. Any reason why not to add that? Was thinking about throwing some garlic power in the batch I am going to make.

@dragonshadow3707 4 жыл бұрын

Love this video guys yous should sell that i would buy it lol 😂

@darylducholke4059 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video again:)! But i make my own as well and find you cant have too much algae:)! I like to go 40-50% algae. When i feed ..its the first ingredient eaten. Do you make sure no preservative in frozen seafood...STPP is baaad:(!

@TrueMesa 4 жыл бұрын

Good stuff ! Need more discount on dry reef chili!

@ROZDAB 4 жыл бұрын

Now I’m hungry 😋

@AliMohamed-jg6bv 3 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot for such effort and info. how many times we can use this food per day? and how much quantity per serving? and would be enough as a single food?

@BRStv 3 жыл бұрын

How much and how often will depend on the fish that you're keeping. For example, some fish need smaller, but frequent servings. The beauty with DIY food is that you can tailor the recipe to the types of fish that you're keeping too. For that reason, you could definitely use only this food if you formulate it right 🙂

@fishstix1988 2 жыл бұрын

If i wanted to, could I also add frozen clams or muscles? What about frozen blood worms, frozen silversides, frozen rotifers or ocean plankton?

@BRStv 2 жыл бұрын

Really any food that fish generally eat could be added 🙂 You'll probably find that some textures work better when cut up into smaller pieces than others. No doubt, there is a bit of trial and error when making your own frozen fish food.

@travisoglesbee769 4 жыл бұрын

This will be around $300 to make this batch. You need to charge $23 just to break even. What would you recommend selling at for your time and effort?

@stupified007 4 жыл бұрын

I think if they weighed it out and cut the amount per bag by half, you MAYBE could make that a profitable venture. You'd also have to value your labor extremely low as well. That being said, if it really can hold its nutritional value over a year or two frozen then this likely is worthwhile for personal use if you need frozen food. Good for BRS for putting this together.

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

I think id scale the size down to 8oz like other flats or add a bit more of the lower cost base proteins.

@rhameenkolyani3202 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome guys thank you so much!!! So with this recipe or Rods fish food, I would not have to dose any aminos or feed corals correct? Just major and minor elements is left?

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

As long as you mix in the aminos, you're correct 🙂

@freemansaquatics5326 4 жыл бұрын

Matrix food for fish ;)

@Utahmikew 4 жыл бұрын

Bring back frozen reef chili with an auto ship option.

@gerardogonzalez605 2 жыл бұрын

Would there be more benefits to making the coral food portion separate from the fish food and freezing it into its own bags and feeding the corals at night? Also you think the RedSea Coral AB+ could be added to the mix and frozen as well?

@kakam458 Жыл бұрын

Freezing destroys some of the amino acids. it makes no sense to freeze something thats fresh like AB+ especially as it can be stored in room temp.

@fishstix1988 2 жыл бұрын

Just so I'm correct, the recipe calls for 3oz of freeze fried krill ( will need to purchase 2 of the 1.5oz containers), but what about when the recipe calls for 3oz BRS freeze dried mysis, but the container sold on the BRS website is 2oz. How should the recipe be adjusted to accommodate the 2oz container?

@BRStv 2 жыл бұрын

You've got a few options. Buy two containers and save the left over for later, use 1 oz less of the freeze dried mysis, or make a partial batch. Just don't overthink it. If you're a little light on one ingredient or a little heavy on another, you're still going to end up with a solid food for your fish and corals.

@fishstix1988 2 жыл бұрын

Also, have any products been adjusted in this recipe since the video was made?

@BRStv 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Alan, I don't believe anything has changed with the individual components since this video was released.

@madrox4132 4 жыл бұрын

You've become a morning show!

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure if that's a compliment or not, but hopefully that's a good thing! 😂

@inexperiencedreefer8208 4 жыл бұрын

Did Ryan just make a Lizzo reference...? 😃🎶

@OnTheReef 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have any more footage of feeding this food?

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

Not uploaded to KZfaq. Maybe Ryan can feed some on the next live stream!

@OnTheReef 4 жыл бұрын

@@BRStv Thanks!

@WaizHaquewaiz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi I'm planning to make this but had a few questions about the expiry of the mix after making and is it ok to use fresh protein like fresh fish eggs and fresh shrimp instead of aldready frozen

@BRStv 3 жыл бұрын

Fresh is fine. As long as you use a high quality freezer bag for storage, there is no reason why this couldn't last a year or more in the freezer.

@donward2466 4 жыл бұрын

I do know.

@tijs2094 4 жыл бұрын

Can you also use seaweed that you can find on the beach?

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

We wouldn't recommend that as there can be unwanted pollution. Nori sheets are really the best way to go.

@joseochoa2792 4 жыл бұрын

Being that this food is so dense in nutrients, should be extra care full when feeding (over feeding which would cause nitrates and such) or should I feed the same way as if it was any of the other frozen mix food mentioned?

@tom-andrethomsen 4 жыл бұрын

Just check your nitrates and phosphates, and adjust filtration accordingly. Notice that I say "filtration", and not "feeding". The fish and coral should get as much food as they can consume, to be nice fat and healthy. Nutrient export strategies should be a consequence of required feeding, not the other way around. If you find it difficult to implement enough export, then you have simply overstocked your system (based on experience level, and how much time, energy, and money that you are willing to invest).

@joseochoa2792 4 жыл бұрын

@@tom-andrethomsen thanks I appreciate your response

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

Tom has some good advice. Definitely best to monitor your nitrates and phosphates, especially when switching foods or swapping out filtration equipment. Over time, you'll find that right balance of amount of food and amount of filtration :)

@keithstie 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Randy, what branch were you in again? I was army. Great video, BTW!

@BRStv 3 жыл бұрын

Randy was Army as well 😁

@keithstie 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! 12b, combat engineer here, whats were you?

@jerrysmith1643 4 жыл бұрын

So what’s the mag. Levels in these ingredients? or is that not something we need to worry about?

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

That's not something that we'd worry about in this case.

@chrisroberts7981 2 жыл бұрын

Just curious can you use this for freshwater fish

@BRStv 2 жыл бұрын

You can certainly make DIY food for freshwater fish, but you'll likely want to change the formula to best match the nutritional needs of the specific fish that you're keeping.

@fishstix1988 2 жыл бұрын

For the frozen squid, do you use just the tubes and tentacles, or is it whole frozen squid?

@BRStv 2 жыл бұрын

We used whole cleaned squid in this video

@drewlong77 3 жыл бұрын

Two Things: 1: I made this full recipe and it lasted over 2 years to the point I had to stop feeding because it cld be bad after a certain point. everything benefitted and allowed my phosphates to actually be read above 0 and be stable at .05. SO..AFTER NOT FEEDING THIS DAILY ANYMORE & ONLY PELLETS FOR TWO MONTHS.. BUT EXPORT STAYED SAME.. SO NO2PO2 WENT TO 0 AND CAUSED CYANO, BRIOPSIS & GHA OUTBREAK.. AND BOTH TANGS GOT DEVELOPED HEAD & LINE EROSION .. 6 YEAR OLD HIPPO TANG JUST DIED YESTERDAY. : / She WAS THE LAST OF OUR FIRST 3 SALTWATERR FISH THAT SANTA DROPPED IN THE OUR CYCLED TANK ON CHRISTMAS 6 YEARS AGO. So the corals the fish and the water benefited from proper nurition. I just wish there were bigger thick chunks of seaweed Available to use. (Seaweed Extreme EXTREME XXL!)

@ethanrussell3163 Жыл бұрын

Yeah what you find with reef tanks is that as you develop your system biologically the capacity to deal with nutrient input increases - drop the gas then you starve things out. Sorry to hear, those pests are nasty particularly cyano.

@jb2257 4 жыл бұрын

Yes please frozen reef chili back please so i don’t have to make it

@raisethereef 4 жыл бұрын

On a side note, the whole "raw/grain free" diet for cats and dogs is turning out to be terrible for their health and causing a lot of problems. Seeing the true science behind it is eye opening. My cousin is a vet and she shares what is actually being studied and how it is killing our pets. I suggest anyone check it out. Now back to fish food...

@davebaer8504 2 жыл бұрын

"So why would anybody do this man?" - Welcome to 2022. LFS has been sold out of frozen food for months. FedEx can't ship anything without messing it up. So now it's come down to necessity.

@MetalFrogman23 4 жыл бұрын

Any of the proteins raw? Or cooked?

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

Raw for fish food :)

@MetalFrogman23 4 жыл бұрын

@@BRStv thank you so much!

@drewschmidt6314 4 жыл бұрын

I noticed you didn't add any garlic oil to the food. How many times have you seen people recommending people to add garlic oil to there fish food?

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

Garlic has really fallen out of favor with the reefing community. While it can usually help with a feeding response, the whole garlic cures diseases idea is pretty much gone. There is some thought that long term garlic use might even hurt the internal organs of fish, so we typically see it left out of quality fish food these days.

@CalebChapman12 4 жыл бұрын

I thought that was actually chili at first 1:00 🤢

@AnimalKING 4 жыл бұрын

I dont like to use any fish food product that has any kind of meal in it like Fish Meal Or Shrimp Meal because it is the by product of the fish and not the main part.

@rustyshackelford4503 4 жыл бұрын

I’d like to do something like this again. But the first time I tried it my entire tank crashed. Everything except the fish died within a day or so of the first feeding. I DIDNT USE ANY BRS PRODUCTS, so I want to get that out here. I used all live raw shellfish i shucked myself. Maybe the seafood counter had contaminated the shells or something.

@BRStv 4 жыл бұрын

Oh no that's scary! I would double check where you source the meat from, but we have had great results doing this. We feed all of our office tanks with this quite often. (: