Frozen cubes… mixing the cocktail…

[Magnum Man]

I’m liking how this is working out… my semi local pet store ( more dog groomers and supplies kind of place) has been stocking frozen brine shrimp cubes… since they apparently have been selling well, they have been adding a variety of cube food… I have a protein shaker bottle, that I’m mixing a variety of frozen cubes, brine, bloodworms, mysis shrimp, etc. so I’m now at least once a week I'm mixing cocktails for the fishes… typically mostly brine, but at least a cube or two of several others, for a good variety… they seem to love it…

 

[Colin_T]

You will be growing your own fish food soon. Here's a link to get you started

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

www.fishforums.net

 

[Magnum Man]

funny you posted that link... the yellow tail male was chasing a female yellow tail today, and before I left for work, he was shimmying over a spot of rocks on the bottom, & over a section of the Java Fern tangle, like he was depositing sperm, I don't see any eggs, & it may just have been the excitement of youth ( this is his 1st girl friend ) ... I've not looked yet into the breeding of them yet, I assume they are egg scatterers... can't imagine any fry would survive in this tank... even though there is a lot of cover in the 1 inch river rock substrate, a crew of Coolie loaches surf the channels between the rocks... assuming they would find fry a tasty treat...

 

[sharkweek178]

funny you posted that link... the yellow tail male was chasing a female yellow tail today, and before I left for work, he was shimmying over a spot of rocks on the bottom, & over a section of the Java Fern tangle, like he was depositing sperm, I don't see any eggs, & it may just have been the excitement of youth ( this is his 1st girl friend ) ... I've not looked yet into the breeding of them yet, I assume they are egg scatterers... can't imagine any fry would survive in this tank... even though there is a lot of cover in the 1 inch river rock substrate, a crew of Coolie loaches surf the channels between the rocks... assuming they would find fry a tasty treat...

You never know. Sometimes an egg is laid where none of the other fish come across it and a fry gets lucky. If there are enough hiding places and a food supply (like infusoria from dried leaf litter or wood), it's within the realm of possibility. It's kind of fun when you spot that new fish that's much smaller than the others but too big to get eaten at this point.

 

[Magnum Man]

Fish all got cocktails again tonight… everyone is at the their best and brightest… pet store mutt angel flairs it’s dorsal and clears the center of the tank, pushes the bigger, heavier acarra’s out of the middle chases the wrestling Geo’s from the middle… when I first got that angel, I thought it was mentally incompetent, but it takes charge, and gets very pretty, for shrimp cocktail

 

[Magnum Man]

They are all learning the sounds of food prep… Mrs. Says she can see the fish get excited, when I’m behind the tanks, and start shaking the shaker bottle, or grinding the bug bites in my mortar and pestle…
I’m actually liking the larger bug bite pellets, I loosely mill them, so I have a big variety of sizes, from larger nuggets, to dust, so each fish can choose their perfect size..

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Just please, for goodness sake, do not get your protein shaker mixed up with your fish cocktail

 

[Colin_T]

Just please, for goodness sake, do not get your protein shaker mixed up with your fish cocktail

Ah Dear, why does my banana smoothie taste like prawn?

 

[Magnum Man]

I know it’s all in fun, but I do have my shaker bottles labeled, as I use one for mixing up a Bacter A E shake for the fishies as well… not that it would matter “mixing” those up… that’s just a carry over, from working the food plant all these years

 

[KLtropical]

You never know. Sometimes an egg is laid where none of the other fish come across it and a fry gets lucky. If there are enough hiding places and a food supply (like infusoria from dried leaf litter or wood), it's within the realm of possibility. It's kind of fun when you spot that new fish that's much smaller than the others but too big to get eaten at this point.

Had this happen with one of my Hillstream or Borneo loaches recently. I only saw one young fish swimming around for a couple of days - much smaller and still too small to be identified, but hopefully too big to get eaten (haven't seen it in a while, so maybe it did end up becoming a snack.)

It is nice to learn that the tank is conducive for reproductive behaviour.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I buy my frozen foods by the pound. I always mix them but not in a blender or shaker. I just add all the frozen foods to a sepcimen box and add warm/hot water to unfreeze them and I use a small strainer to scoop out food and deposit into tanks. I use all and the foods and make up two mixes. One uses only the smaller foods like rotifers, cyclops and a bit of daphnia. This is for fry and small fish, I keep a couple of blister packs if BBS but these are for an emergency as they are so over priced I hate buying any. For the larger fish I feed blood worms, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp a bit of daphnia.

My frozen order is about $250 twice a year and I feed other foods as well. I just ordered another $200+ of Ebo-Aquaristik from Germany. My 3rd food is the Rapashy Gel mixes- Bottom Scratcher, Spawn & Grow and Soilent Green. Plus my clown loaches absolutly shred Dr. Tanner's Igapo Explorer.

However, I also know that the best food for condition many fish to spawn is live. I do not do live so I needed to find the next baest alternatives. Frozen and Repashy are definetly some good options. It took me almost 20 years to get to the Ebo as my dry food choice.