For many years the first aquarist and aquarist of today are still using eggs for feeding their fish.   I remember seeing in some popular tropical fish magazines how Russians have been using eggs to feed their fish since the Iron Curtain made commercially available fish foods unavailable.

For years I have been experimenting with using eggs for a food to feed my fish.   It has been classified as one of the most nutritionally balanced food known to man and animals.

Feeding eggs is easy you can hard-boil an egg and use the yolk in a water suspension much like l iquid fry to feed very small fry.

Myself when I am in the mood I will scramble a couple eggs and use a rotating cheese grater to make small particles to feed to my guppies.  My guppies just love it when I feed them eggs as a supplement to their normal foods.

I have also experimented with using scrambled eggs as a paste food (somewhat) after cooking the egg I will break apart the eggs in sizes the fish can pick at for the rest of the day, then I net out what is not consumed later.

I have read lately the raw eggs are bad for your fish because it contains a growth inhibitor avidin which is de-activated by cooking (heat).

In the same article, by mixing the egg white and yolk together the fat content gets micro encapsulated so that the fish benefit from both the egg white and yolk.

By mixing the egg well before cooking and then dropping it into boiling water while stirring the water vigorously yet get small particles that can be strained and fed to small fish.

If you wish to have larger particles minimize your stirring of the water and the particles will be larger.

They also suggested making a custard by steaming your egg emulsion in a custard cup then breaking up into pieces to feed much like paste food.

Take advantage of foods that you can find around the house and experiment with them; I am always amazed how simple nutritious foods are used and get great results don't be afraid to experiment.

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