Live food

[Megalofyia]

I want to use live food but I don't want to grow it myself. Does anyone get live food from their lfs or off the internet?

[An t-iasg]

I don't blame you for not wanting to grow it yourself. Unless you had tons of fish, you would probably have more than you could use. I get baby brine shrimp at my lfs. It only costs $1 per half teaspoon. It lasts for about a week in the frig. Then they start dying after about a week. I get some once in a while for my betta, but I still end up throwing a lot of it away. Half a teaspoon is quite a lot! But the betta enjoys them. One of my bettas ate them right away, and the other one let them swim for a little bit before he decided to go after them!

[Megalofyia]

I'm going to have to start searching around for a lfs that sells live food. Not just ghost shrimp and feeder fish but water fleas and such.

[An t-iasg]

Yes, call around and see who sells live food. I have 2 favorite lfs's. One only sells frozen food, and the other one sells a variety of live food.

[vega]

IMO live food are the best in term nutrition values but you have to aware that feeding your fish with live food mean the fish are directly contact with diseases vector. REgardsly where you get the food, there is a very high chances the water where this creature living are polute and contaminate especially worms type such as tubifex and boold worm.

I was initially wanted to feed my tank with live food but after some research on net i found out the best food of choice would be froozen type.

Most quality froozen food are been exposed to radiation during the packaging which will kill most of the bacteria yet retain most of the nutritions.

just imhp

[bettacove]

Searching for a LFS that sells live food is going to be tuff. Most don't as i have found out, and if they do its not the kind that i want. Your better off just culturing it yourself. Its actually not that hard to do(depends on what you have), at first i didn't want to either but now i have a bunch of different cultures.

ashley

[Megalofyia]

I don't know that I have the time or space to culture live food. All i want is daphnia.. That might be spelled wrong. Water fleas.

[i3k]

I feed my white tip cat-sharks some masquito fish and I buy those in my LFS, 15 for $1.00 so I usually end up buying like 45 of them and two weeks later their all gone.

[dralarms]

I am trying to grow some brine srimp. But I sure didn't follow the directions lol. I'd have enough to feed half of eastern tenn. Trying to grow about 1/2 tea spoon at a time.

[Megalofyia]

How big are brine shrimp? I think they might be too big for my glass cats.

[Allivymar]

Probably not Meg. They're not large at all (think sea monkeys). Baby brine shrimp are used to feed angelfish and other fry; its pretty small. Do know that adult brine shrimp are the fish equivalent of potato chips tho. Yummy, but not very nutritious.

[vega]

the size is about a tiny pin head.

[Megalofyia]

Hmm don't know if I want couch potato fish... Maybe as a treat sometime.