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I have been working on a fish food that doesn't have a negative impact on the water quality of my reef tank when giving my clowns saturation feedings. So I needed a food that was both nutritious and uneaten portions would disolve and be eaten by the corals. Here is the recipe I may tweak it more.

1 1/4 Cup Golden Pearls
6 OZ Cyclop-Eeze
4 OZ Mysis Shrimp
4 Cups RO/DI Water
2 Oz Unflavored Gelatin
Mix 3 Cups Cold RO/DI water, Golden Pearls, Cylop-Eeze. Sprinkle Gelatin over cold mixture. Bring 1 Cup of RO/DI to a boil mix in with mixture. Mix throughly strain and mixture for any undissolved gelatin. Mix in Mysis Shrimp. Put in a square pan in the freezer. When frozen cut into cubes and store in freezer in zip lock bags.

This stuff is great it is my cotten candy fish food. It slowly dissolves in the water releasing the Golden Pearls and CE. If it hits a power head it is turns to nothing and feeds all the corals. One batch makes a lot.

-Tom
 
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does anyone local have golden pearls? i got my cyclop eeze from global.
 
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Did you know you can proof your gelatin in a half-cup of cool water and add it to your mix without having to boil anything?

~ Sherri
 
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How funny...I went to several of my professional baking & other culinary textbooks to look up an exact dictionary definition and couldn't find one. Now I wonder where I heard that terminology. Maybe I was thinking about proofing yeast and started applying it to readying gelatin for recipes. Damn those voices in my head! In my own silly terminology, it just means softening the gelatin in cold liquid. He'd still need to properly dissolve it (and thus wouldn't need to strain his mixture) but he doesn't need to boil it to do it. I was wondering if boiling his fish goo, even for however brief a time, might degrade its nutritional value.

Hope that helps. :D

~ Sherri
 
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I was wondering the same thing. Thanks for the explanation for those of us that have no business in a kitchen (except to grab a satisfying beverage).
 
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Mmmmmm..... Frosty Barley Pops and Jello. What a combination!!!

Jim 8)
 
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