Can You Feed Your Fish Packet Sea Monkeys?

[QuotheRaven]

I have a spare 7 gallon tank with no filter or heater and it will cost me $60 at least to get decent filtration and a heater for it so I was thinking I could keep a live food in the tank for my fish and was wondering can you feed packeted sea monkeys to your fish if not how do you keep regular LFS bought brine shrimp alive long enough for them to breed etc

 

[BigC]

http/www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c123/What...hrimp-c119.html

 

[geo7x]

i'm pretty sure you can feed your fish "sea monkeys" yes, as from what I've heard they are nothing more than just regular brine shrimp *methinks*.

 

[QuotheRaven]

I believe sea monkeys are brine shrimp however I don't know if they are different and un-safe due to the fact they are packeted...

thanks Big C that website made me take a back step in thinking of keeping them...seems a tad to complex for the situation Im in Lol

 

[geo7x]

this thread has alot of opinions on it http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...&hl=monkeys

 

[BigC]

Sea Monkeys are just an advertising gimmick (been going on for eons...kids) they are in fact Brineshrimp eggs and should be treated as such. Anyone who thinks that they can grow brineshrimp to maturity in large quantities to be econonically viable are kidding themselves. Time, money and space are the key words here. Thats not to say that it cannot be done on a smaller scale but its time consuming and by the time you pay for the appratus ect and the amount of shrimp you will get out its really not a proposition for the home aquarist with a small setup.

 

[Dragonscales]

Not to mention the small amount of nutrients they contain. They are best fed to fish while still young and with their yoke sack attached or after being enriched and even then they are a poor substitute for other live foods out there.

 

[blackbat]

omg you can read that artical to kids to get them to go to sleep at night. It seems so much easier to buy them from the fish store lol

 

[OohFeeshy]

It shouldn't cost that much for a heater and filter, for filtration you could use something air powered like a sponge filter, for heating, just the cheapest heater you can find. You could then use the tank for guppy fry for an occasional live food. Or a small egglayer.