Should I Do This

[balapickerel]

i have a 25 us gallon tank with some fish in it, but i go away a lot in the summer so i'm going to give them away, there is a stream near my house with thousands of brine shrimp in it and i was thinking of netting a bunch of brine shrimp and putting them in my tank along with a bunch of moss from the same creek, should i do this? if so how many should i get and what do they eat?

thanks in advance for any help

 

[lyotim88]

i wouldn't do it. Just get an automatic feeder

 

[three-fingers]

i have a 25 us gallon tank with some fish in it, but i go away a lot in the summer so i'm going to give them away, there is a stream near my house with thousands of brine shrimp in it and i was thinking of netting a bunch of brine shrimp and putting them in my tank along with a bunch of moss from the same creek, should i do this? if so how many should i get and what do they eat?

thanks in advance for any help

Sounds interesting. However, it's quite odd that you have brine shrimp in a running stream...especially with moss.

Could you take some pictures? Sounds like it's a different species of fairy shrimp.

 

[balapickerel]

yeah i think they might be fairy shrimp, they swim upside down and hide in the moss, the moss is sort of like java moss, btw, i live in ontario so the pond frezes over in winter for about three months, that might help to identify the species

"i wouldn't do it. Just get an automatic feeder"
i wasn't talking about as food, i was going to have them as the only thing in the tank, maybe a crayfish from the pond near my house aswell

 

[three-fingers]

To ID them with out without a picture, this place is your best bet: [URL="http/nabf.iturnrocks.com/index/index.php?sid=220372ad268464cd4cd82c67a3712304"]http/nabf.iturnrocks.com/index/index.php...cd82c67a3712304[/URL].

With regards to what they eat...if they are typical anostraca, then anything that will fit in thier mouth will do.

I would recommend a very weak and small air powered sponge filter on the tank just to make sure waste food doesn't pollute the water, and feeding spirulina would be perfect.

I would advise against the crayfish, as it's likely to eat the fairy shrimp, and unless you know about what species it it, could require a bigger tank.

They crayfish would also require decent filtration by means of an internal or external power filer, and this would just kill the fairy shrimp.

 

[balapickerel]

i looked into it and they are scuds