feeding live food
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It's fine to feed live food, but normal live brine, is about as nutritious for the clowns, as popcorn is for us. They're great for getting finicky fish to eat, and if you add selcon to the live brine for about a half hour before feeding them to the tank, it'll add some fatty acids that the fish need. You don't want to rely on them as your main food source though, because as stated they're not very nutritious, and lots of them will escape, and die in the system. Over time it's likely to throw your parameters out of whack.
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Yes, you're absolutely right. Baby brine with the yolk sac still attached are nutritious. But most people that feed live are feeding adult brine.
Where did you get the baby brine from, and how much of a pain is it to hatch them? I think you posted the info before, but I don't have time to look it up right now.
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Where did you get the baby brine from, and how much of a pain is it to hatch them? I think you posted the info before, but I don't have time to look it up right now.
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it's probably buried under general forum somewhere, but, I bought that one black dish from the brine shrimp website. (www.brineshrimpdirect.com)incysor said:
Not a pain or anything. You fill the dish with tank water or you can use regular saltwater (but I have more hatching with tank water) , then put it in a place where it stays warm, and where there is low light. when they hatch, which is like 24 hours, they'll swim to the middle where they see the light source and swim around there. You scoop them up with the scooper they include and transfer to your tank, then it's lunch time! (be sure to turn off your pumps so the guys dont get sucked away or skimmed away.
Abarnswell
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I just bought some DT's Live Marine Phytoplankton. Had it delivered overnight from CA in a fridge pack (it has to stay cold). I'll feed it to my feather dusters and other filter feeding guys, as soon as I have some. I'm just in day 3 of my cycling period right now.... and waiting oh, so patiently...
Abarnswell
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I'm going to start hatching baby brine shrimp pretty soon, for dwarf seahorses, as that's pretty much the only thing they eat. It's good to decap the shrimp eggs (cysts) before you hatch them. They're eaiser to eat and digest for the fish, and there is far less waste in the water afterward. It's easy to decapp them. Takes about 7 minutes. I'll need to do that for the dwarf seahorses. If anyone needs to know how, just let me know. It involved soaking them in a bleach solution for a few minutes before you put them in the container to hatch them.incysor said:
too much workAbarnswell said:
For the lazy like me, I went and bought the dish where, when they hatch, they all swim to the middle where the hole is and where light hits it. Then, they are attracted to it. With all of them swimming in the middle, you just scoop them all and put them in your tank, and all you get is 100% live baby brine, no shells, no mess.