Feeder Shrimp

I know Bird World has brine shrimp!

Good thinking Ed, I think I'll go pick up a mollie or two tomorrow.  I had some guppies in there, but the currents in the tank are too strong for them so they just get pushed around until they die...  I'll have to try mollies.

  This really smart guy told me once, (relating to seahorses but I think it relates to all fish?)  "SW fish need SW food, FW fish need FW food". I guess there is something different with the fatty acids, those wondrous omega 3 Hufas and Pufas? Fish have evolved to process these chains differently and if we feed our our fish a food it can't process, they get fatty livers and don't live as long in captivity. That's how I understood him, anyway.

 There are quite a few research articles about lionfish eating goldfish, and the necrocropsies (sp, sorry?) that are done when they expire. I'll bet it is similar with frogfish?

  When I was trying to teach WC seahorses to eat frozen food, I used ghost shrimp from Kris, by the case! I kept them in their regular salinity, then gut loaded them with cyclopeeze before I fed them out. The shrimp itself isn't very nutritious, but the food inside is consumed with it. But, my fish were really hungry, so they didn't let the shrimp stay in their home long. Salinity was not an issue!

 You can keep the shrimp alive for quite a while using a tiny 2 gallon tank and a sponge filter. I even had quite a few spawn. Kris will let you pick the gravid ones. If you want to try to grow them, I know a cool trick. Let me know?

I was wondering that myself Suzy. Same with scats, archers, monos, etc.

I know scats are much closer to a marine fish than a freshwater. They do great in full salt.

Hmmm Well I'll have too look into getting some Ghost Shrimp and gut load them, but for today I think I'm going to pick a molly up on my way home from work and see what happens.  I really just want to see my Frogfish eat something, I've heard all these stories about what aggressive feeders they are, but as of this morning mine is still fasting...

Since the tide pool he was collected from in Thailand...

Okay, honestly I don't know... The guys at Aquatica said they had been eating in the store, and there is a chance he ate one of the feeder guppies (I found 4 of them dead and removed them, but haven't found the fifth one) so he may have ate the fifth one, but I can't be sure. 

I was reading online somewhere that they can go for a few weeks without food so maybe I'm just an over concerned fish parent (me and Marlin)


Edited by superman1981 - May 08 2007 at 12:27pm

Mike, I'm happy to see some one got my Finding Nemo joke