You use a really really tiny net.....sorry, couldn't resist -----Original Message----- From: Shango Los [mailto:Shango@shangolos.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 6:55 AM To: 'Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat' Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Growing Live Food Total newbie question: How do you catch the fruit flies to feed them to the fish. Are they flying around? -----Original Message----- From: gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Clifford Miller Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 6:29 AM To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Growing Live Food 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----- > From: gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com > [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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-Member mailing list > GSAS-Member@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-Member mailing list > GSAS-Member@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member > > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-Member mailing list > GSAS-Member@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member > _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member