Re: [GSAS-Member] Growing Live Food

["Clifford Miller" <clifford@clevergeek.com>]

Like Hiro said, some people have better luck with different types of
cultures.

I would say the absolute easiest is redworms (composting worms).  You can
culture them in any sized container, at a huge range of temps, with
kitchen scraps and newspaper.  They have a nice size range, so they work
for a wide variety of fish.  It's a little more time consuming to "sort"
them at feeding time...

Fruit flies would be the second.  EASY. The first recipe here
http://www.amphibiancare.com/frogs/articles/fruitflies.html works well
enough...in fact, I wouldn't want one to work better.  Once you have the
dry ingredients on hand, you can mix up a new batch in less than a minute,
and my killies and guppies love them.

I haven't had nearly as much luck with grindel worms, and daphnia has been
by far the hardest thing I've tried to culture.  Bette's advice was to use
30 gal+ sized outdoor bins, so the greenwater can feed them. I'm going to
try next spring, but for now out of 20 or so attempts inside I have one 10
gal tank that produces small amounts of daphnia (one of my fry tanks
currently holding 50+ peacock gudgeons, so there might not be any daphnia
soon), but if I transfer them anywhere else, they don't end up making it.

My luck has been using OLD (nothing from the tap in the last month+,heavy
metals or chlorine/chloromine = death) tank water, or well water, and
feeding tiny pinches of live bakers yeast and tiny amount of blended
peas/lettuce/sweat potatos.  Once you mix up a batch of food it's enough
for a long time...and they don't require any work once they're
going...just takes a while to dial in on their conditions.  If you'd like
some live adults or a few eggs, I could try to salvage some for you.

Cliff

> This is an interesting link, Hiro.  It has me leaning towards Daphnia.  It
> sounds like they are easy to raise, stay alive in the tank and don't take
> up
> much space.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of HIRO TAK
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:25 PM
> To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Growing Live Food
>
>   Hi Shango,
>
>   To me, the walter/microworm and vinegar eels are pretty easy to
> maintain.
> However, they maybe too small for some of the fish.
>   And Grindal and White worms maybe better suited for bigger fish however
> it
> seems takes more care and know how to maintain.  And it kind of funny but
> some people have no problem and the other just can't keep them although
> they
> do pretty much same way to culture them.
>
>   Anyway, here is a link for live food culture.  I think it will give you
> some basic idea.
>
> http://www.well.com/user/debunix/fish/LiveFoodCultures.html
>
> Shango Los <Shango@shangolos.com> wrote: Hi there,
>
>
>
> In your opinion, what is the easiest live food to begin raising.  My fish
> love it so much more, I'd like to put in the effort.  I want to start with
> something though.  Please let me know what you think and a good source of
> info on whatever you suggest.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Shango
>
>
>
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