Have any of you used duckweed in homemade fish food?

[Notophthalmus]

I just removed about a gallon of mixed Lemnaceae from my daphnia/scud tank. Duckweed is a high-protein plant that seems like it would be ideal as a fish food component, and my sample also contains a few thousand microcrustaceans. I was just curious if any of you had included duckweed in any fish food recipes and how you prepared it; e.g., did you dry it, puree it, etc.

 

[msjinkzd]

I use it in place of baby food in my snail recipes. I puree it.

 

[Notophthalmus]

Excellent, thank you. Shrimp like your snail food too, right? I'd like to get a ghost shrimp colony going, so that would be an ideal use for the duckweed.

 

[msjinkzd]

all the critters in my tanks eat it (cories, barbs, tetras, gouramis, as well as shrimp and snails)

 

[Notophthalmus]

Awesome, thanks a lot. Is your snail food recipe posted someplace on the forum?

 

[msjinkzd]

There are a bunch in the invert section stickied. I use gelatin as a binder, but i believe you could also use some vegetable based binders as well in order to make it more applicable to different species.

 

[Notophthalmus]

Thanks again! I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[msjinkzd]

awesome! look forward to hearing the results

 

[lymabean]

Another question answered by Jinx, what would we do without her?