I usually use a rolling pin after covering pellets with plastic wrap or put pellets in a sandwich bag and then roll. Are there easier, more efficient ways. A few tablespoons lasts quite a while so I don't need anything too elaborate.
Hints For Grinding Up Pellet Food For Fry?
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I use a small mortar and pestle, picked up on sale at a kitchenware store. Before I got that, I just used the back of a teaspoon with the food in a small salad bowl; that worked okay but required more effort on hard pellets than the new kit. Either way works easily on flake food.
It's fast and easy to make enough ground food at once that by the time it's finished, the fry have outgrown the need for such finely ground stuff.
It's fast and easy to make enough ground food at once that by the time it's finished, the fry have outgrown the need for such finely ground stuff.
I've never intentionally bred fish in my whole fishkeeping life. But I accidentally came across a fantastic way to size reduce pellets or flake down to a fine powder.
When I'm coming to the end of a packet of pellets I noticed that at the bottom of the packet you always get the fines. Pellets that have broken down over time through the shaking of the bag etc.
But the powder's no good to me, I need to get rid of it. What I do is tip the remaining handful of pellets into a kitchen sieve, give it a shake and the fines fall through the holes. I'm then left with just pellets.
But here's the best bit, which is going to be ideal for you. If you carry on shaking the sieve the pellets which are churning together also start to break down into fines due to the friction of rubbing together as you shake.
You could even shake the sieve directly over your fry tank!
When I'm coming to the end of a packet of pellets I noticed that at the bottom of the packet you always get the fines. Pellets that have broken down over time through the shaking of the bag etc.
But the powder's no good to me, I need to get rid of it. What I do is tip the remaining handful of pellets into a kitchen sieve, give it a shake and the fines fall through the holes. I'm then left with just pellets.
But here's the best bit, which is going to be ideal for you. If you carry on shaking the sieve the pellets which are churning together also start to break down into fines due to the friction of rubbing together as you shake.
You could even shake the sieve directly over your fry tank!
I use this its freaking perfect https://www.amazon.com/Wancle-Elect...me-garden&sprefix=spice+g,aps,175&sr=1-4&th=1
I have used mortar and pestle and it works well. However, I now use a dedicated coffee bean grinder. I use it to make fine food that I mix with various flakes and ground insects to result in a superfood dry food. With practice one leans to pulse the on button to attain larger or smaller size.
You could try buying the micro pellets...they're only slightly larger than fry krill powder. Here's some old school I got from a relative: EGG YOLK. Put cooked yolk in cheesecloth , shake it around and watch the fry fly. Do a very small water change after each feeding. They will grow like crazy.
