1 OKTOBER 1999

LIVE FEED FOR AQUARIUM SPECIES

QUESTION:

Sent: August 22, 1999

To: <BRINE-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>

Among the fishes kept and raised in the aquarium, which species
benefit the most from eating live adult (with eggs) brine shrimp?

Paolo Villegas

Paolo_Villegas@abs-cbn.com

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COMMENTS 1:

I can't speak for salt-water aquaria, but the question is tough even when narrowed down to freshwater species.
They are a useful "supplement" to nearly all freshwater fish that are big enough (have enough mouth) to eat them or tear at them. Lacking in full nutrition, they aren't usually too useful as a breeding/conditioning/growth food alone. I guess supplementing them by pre-loading them with some fatty acids and vitamins, etc. might overcome that.
The ones I have that benefit the most are the killies that will eat only
living food that wiggles. I can get most other fish to thrive on prepared
foods, but some wild Aphyosemions and other rain-forest fish are difficult to train to eat flake, frozen or pellet food. For those, live Artemia are excellent maintenance food.

Wright Huntley

Fremont CA, USA

510 494-8679 

E-mail: huntley1@home.com

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