Live food for your fish and reef - experience and pics thread.

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I would like hear what's your actual experience in using live food for your fish and pics.

For example, how your fish or coral react to baby brine shrimps, dalphina, micro worms, white worms.........

Standard way of hunting for my seahorse is just sit and wait. Sometimes they would lay completely flat on the ground sideways for an hour just to wait for food inside a crack.

 

[ShaunW]

Never did it, my fish are spoiled enough, without giving them more reasons to swin around the tank acting hungry all the time.

I have put brine in my tank, the fish go nuts and the brine is gone literary in less than a minute.

 

[DEEPWATER]

From time to time ill go a pick up some live brine and feed my tank ,but that only 1 or 2ce a year ,Maybe if i had lots of room to culture them i would .BUt for now my fish mates eat off the rock( all kinds of Pods ) so ppretty much they have some sorce of live food

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

My seahorses are eating the pods amoung the rocks, on the glass and sometimes even in the water. But that's what worries me now. The population of such are diminishing quickly and I worry not to be able switch them to prepared food early enough. Thinking of culturing them in another tank. Do you guys think its viable to culture my own?

 

[masterswimmer]

Do you guys think its viable to culture my own?

Yes I do think it's viable. However, bbs lose their nutritional value as soon as the yolk sack is gone. I believe it's only a day or two. So in order to get the proper nutrition for your ponies, you'd have to continually culture the bbs and feed them as soon as they hatch.

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[marrone]

A lot of people I know down in FL feed their fish glass shrimp and such that they get right out of the Gulf. What ever the fish didn't eat just lived in the tank until one of the fish got hungry so it's less of a impact of their bio load. One guy was actually breeding fish, like Lion fish, and this helped to get them breeding.

Personally I don't and probably wouldn't feed my fish live food and it can causing all kinds of problems in the tank. Fish tend to get very aggressive when live food is feed causing problems between fish.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

A lot of people I know down in FL feed their fish glass shrimp and such that they get right out of the Gulf. What ever the fish didn't eat just lived in the tank until one of the fish got hungry so it's less of a impact of their bio load. One guy was actually breeding fish, like Lion fish, and this helped to get them breeding.

Personally I don't and probably wouldn't feed my fish live food and it can causing all kinds of problems in the tank. Fish tend to get very aggressive when live food is feed causing problems between fish.

I observed the same about the aggressiveness however, this is almost the best way to condition the fish to breed though.

What's your experience with feeding corals or anemone with live copepod, infurosia and ..... blah blah?

 

[ShaunW]

Never did it, my fish are spoiled enough, without giving them more reasons to swin around the tank acting hungry all the time.

I have put brine in my tank, the fish go nuts and the brine is gone literary in less than a minute.

OH, if your talking about seahorses that is a competely different story.

 

[marrone]

What's your experience with feeding corals or anemone with live copepod, infurosia and ..... blah blah?

Outside of my fish eating snail or some pods I usually feed prepared foods, the same goes for my corals.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

OH, if your talking about seahorses that is a competely different story.

My question is actually a broad one to cover in general our experiences on live sfeeding for corals, anemone, seahorses(which happens that I have them), fish, and other inverts. We never know what other reefers like to keep in their thanks, I guess.