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This recipe is based on one average size beef heart, which is about 4 pounds uncleaned. Multiply all the other ingredients for each beef heart you add. Unless noted otherwise, all of these ingredients can be found at your local supermarket.

2 lbs. of cleaned beef heart

1 1/2 lbs. of fresh cod, scrod, or peeled table shrimp.

4 egg yolks (no whites)

20 prenatal vitamins

1 cup of wheat germ

1- 2.75 ounce bottle of Tetra "Color Bits" (from your pet store)

1 cup of ground up freeze-dried krill or plankton (from your pet store)

1/4 teaspoon of spirulina powder (from your health food store)

2 packs of Knox Gelatin

Have flake food on hand if the mixture is the wrong consistency.

Clean all fat, veins, and sinew from the beef heart, and cube into one-inch squares. Puree beef heart and fish separately in a food processor. Mix the beef heart, fish and egg yolks together. In a blender, grind up all of the dry ingredients to powder and add to the beef heart, fish and egg yolks and mix together. In the blender, blend the gelatin with one cup of cold water on high speed until it thickens (about 3-5 minutes), and immediately mix into the beef heart mix. If the mixture is too runny, add flake food until it is a doughy consistency. If it is too dry, then add water. Freeze prepared beef heart mix flat in small zip-lock bags about a half-inch thick.

This recipe was originally put together for the discus fish but will be perfectly okay for an Oscar

Credit for this recipe goes to www.adiscusdream.com (site not online any more)

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