What follows is the recipe I use to make gel diet, or as I call it, "fish Jell-O". It can be tweaked as needed (more veggies, more meat, etc), depending upon the species being fed. Unflavored Knox gelatin can be used as the carrier.

Recipe

1. Non-oily fish 400 grams
2. Clam 275 grams
3. Tetra Marin^tm  600 grams (you can leave this out. Just increase the greens, fish, and/or clams)
4. Greens* 300 grams
5. Carrots 150 grams
6. Torula yeast 200 grams ( I use Salt Creek MicroFeast L-10. If not available, Just increase the greens, fish, and/or clams or add 200 grams of a good quality flake food. DO NOT use bakers or brewers yeast!)
7. Vitamin E 1-250 mg capsule, opened (do not add capsule)
8. Vitamin C 1-250 mg tablet, well crushed
9. Potassium iodide 20 milligrams (can be omitted if unavailable)
10. Gelatin 700 grams
11. Liquid multivitamin 100 ml
12. Water 700 ml cold with food
13. 1600 ml hot with gelatin

Directions

1. Place the first 9 ingredients into a blender, and add the 700 ml of cold water and 100 ml vitamins.
2. Blend on high until well mixed. Set aside.
3. Warm up 1600 ml. of water until just about boiling. Add 700 grams of gelatin, a little at a time, and stir well until it is all dissolved (do not let gel settle to bottom of container as it will burn).
4. Once gel has dissolved, add it to the blended ingredients in the blender, and mix on high until well blended.
5. Pour this mixture into a pan, and allow to gel. Once set, cut into small squares, and freeze.

Thaw out what you need to feed your fish. Will last about 1 year if kept frozen. Can be grated using a cheese grater.

* use kale, collard greens, parsley and the like. Do not use spinach or lettuce as both are lacking nutritionally. See http://www.frankmgreco.com/fruitveggieprofile.htm for more information on the nutritional properties of selected fruits and vegetables.

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