spent grains to fish food

[robsan77]

Just wandering if anyone has been able to or if it is possible to turn spent grains into fish food???

 

[TheMumbler]

I don't know about fish but I've given mine to people with chickens and pigs

 

[tubby_shaw]

I have used it successfully in a spod mix for carp angling :thumb:

 

[leedsbrew]

The dog seems to like it. Or you could use it in bread making. Google Treberbrot :thumb:

 

[CptnCrackoff]

As per TS, Carp bream and tench all love a few particles, take up fishing!! :

 

[robsan77]

I ask because I have koi and wondered if it could make a cold weather feed.

 

[CptnCrackoff]

my understanding is that any grain is ok for fish as long as its cooked.

 

[robsan77]

So I assume an hours mashing counts as being cooked then?

 

[tubby_shaw]

So I assume an hours mashing counts as being cooked then?

The kilning process of malt manufacture counts as cooking

 

[jamesb]

So I assume an hours mashing counts as being cooked then?

The kilning process of malt manufacture counts as cooking

Sorry TS, i've got to disagree. The purpose of cooking them is so the grains absorb water and won't swell up anymore. If a carp, or other fish, eats dry grain it can swell up and mess the fish up. The grains can be dried afterwards though, as the walls are already broken and won't generally cause problems.

I've seen a fish die from eating properly dry grain, it's heartbreaking.

 

[CptnCrackoff]

Jamesb - yes, uncooked grains and nuts are killers, uncooked Tiger nuts did for Benson..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/camb ... 183080.stm

long as its all cooked, nice and swollen it'll be fine, not sure if it'll be as beneficial to the fish as commercially produced pellets.

 

[robsan77]

so surely the malting process, plus the 60min mash will do it? I could add a little more water to the grain after the wort has run off and leave it for a day or 2 as well.

I wouldn't feed the fish anything but the best over the summer months as they need a lot of protein but in the colder months they cannot assimilate protein and the commercially available foods for colder months are wheat germ based. I though the spent grains would be ideal to tide them over.