This recipe makes about 5 cups gel food

Notes. I also added the following which are not reflected in the nutritional breakout:

• around 1/2 cup of mazuri aquatic gel food powder.
• a teaspoon of garlic powder (I don't think I'm going to add garlic powder again because it STINKS! and stinks up my hands when I feed the gel food)

Ingredients

• 5 cups bottled drinking water
• 7 packets unflavored gelatine
• 1 adult multivitamin
• 2 500 mg calcium carbonate tablets
• 4 250 mg vitamin C tablets
• 1 tsp paprika
• 6 tbsp calcium bentonite clay
• 1.5 cup frozen broccoli
• 1 cups frozen chopped spinach
• 1 can mustard greens
• 1 can turnip greens
• 1 tin sardines packed in water, drained
• 1/2 cup canned oysters

Add 3.5 cups water to blender. Place the vitamin C tablets, the calcium tablets, and the multivitamin in to soak.

Add sardines, oysters, paprika, clay and veggies to blender. Blend well.

For sinking food:

• Pour blended ingredients into bowl.
• Dissolve gelatine in cold water and bring to a boil to dissolve gelatine.
• Add gelatine mixture to bowl and stir until well mixed
• Pour into flat shallow container(s) to make a depth of 1/4".
• tap container gently to remove any trapped air bubbles.

For floating food:

• Dissolve gelatine in cold water and bring to a boil to dissolve gelatine.
• Pour gelatine mixture into blender and blend until well mixed.
• Pour into flat shallow container(s) to make a depth of 1/4".

Refrigerate until set.

Cut into squares. I leave out a week's worth of gel in a plastic zipper bag and store in the refrigerator. The rest I freeze between layers of plastic wrap. When frozen, I store in the freezer in ziplock bags (each holding about a week of food). You can make layers thicker than 1/4 inch and then slice it up before you feed it.

Nutritional Breakout per 10 grams food
61% Total protein (1 grams)
--20% Protein from fish (0.2 grams)
11% Fat (0.17 grams)
8% Ash (0.1 grams)
20% Carbohydrate (0.3 grams)
--12% Fiber (0.2 grams)
--4% Sugars (0.1 grams)
--5% Complex (0.1 grams)

6.4 Calories per 10 g food

Minerals
13.9 mg Calcium, Ca, RDA=50mg
0.39 mg Iron, Fe, RDA=1mg
3.4 mg Magnesium, Mg, RDA=5mg
11.2 mg Phosphorus, P, RDA=70mg
25.06 mg Potassium, K, RDA=30mg
9.9 mg Sodium, Na, RDA=30mg
1.03 mg Zinc, Zn, RDA=1mg
0.1 mg Copper, Cu, RDA=40mg
0.06 mg Manganese, Mn, RDA=0.5mg
3.5 mcg Selenium, Se

Vitamins
3.9 mg Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid, RDA=1mg
0.06 mg Thiamin, RDA=0.2mg
0.07 mg Riboflavin, RDA=0.2mg
0.44 mg Niacin, RDA=1.5mg
0.13 mg Pantothenic acid, RDA=0.5mg
0.08 mg Vitamin B-6, RDA=0.2mg
11.4 mcg Folate, total, RDA=50mcg
0.46 mcg Vitamin B-12
480 IU Vitamin A, IU, RDA=40IU
0.16 mg Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), RDA=1mg
7.23 IU Vitamin D
18.5 mcg Vitamin K (phylloquinone)

Fatty Acids (*=Essential)
0.03 g Saturated Fats
0.04 g Unsaturated fats
0.03 g Omega 3 linolenic acid *
0.04 g Omega 6 linoleic acid
2 mg Cholesterol

Amino Acids (*=Essential)
0.01 g Tryptophan *
0.02 g Threonine *
0.03 g Isoleucine *
0.04 g Leucine *
0.05 g Lysine *
0.03 g Methionine *
0.01 g Cystine
0.02 g Phenylalanine *
0.03 g Tyrosine
0.03 g Valine *
0.05 g Arginine *
0.05 g Histidine *
0.03 g Alanine
0.09 g Aspartic acid
0.1 g Glutamic acid
0.07 g Glycine
0.12 g Proline
0.09 g Serine

Carotenes
261.2 mcg Beta Carotene
0.4 mcg Alpha Carotene
2 mcg Cryptoxanthin, beta
5 mcg Lycopene
460.1 mcg Lutein + zeaxanthin
728.7 mcg Total Carotenes

Nutrition data for the foods above was pulled from the USDA Nutrient Database.

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