What Are The Easiet Feeders To Culture?

penguinpimp1990 · Dec 13, 2005

I love feeding my fish livefoods so a long while back i set up a ghost shrimp breeding tank and a fry tank. It worked out very good and my fish seem to love eating them. Since ill soon have 2 ten gallons setups empty I want to start a new culturing tank. What aquatic creatures would you reccomend me culturing? (as a livefood source obvioulsy) Ill do just about anything except ghost shrimp as i already have them. But the food youll reccomend culturing must be easy to breed. I was hoping brine shrimp but i was told brine shrimp are hard to raise to adulthood. Maybe some type of worm? oh yeah and no feeder fish!

thanks

OohFeeshy · Dec 13, 2005

Brine shrimp aren't exactly hard to raise to adulthood, its just not normally worth the hassle. I'd perhaps start with a few bags of adults and some sea monkey eggs, feed them the food included, Sea Monkeys get to adulthood fairly easily IME.

rimmer 05 · Dec 13, 2005

there used to be a topic about this somewere but i cant remember, if some1 game him it im sure that it'd help him

Paul_MTS · Dec 13, 2005

you could always breed crickets, thewse are fairly easy, when I had them for my lizards I would often find eggs laid in the water dish, getting crikcets isn't hard to grow either.

what about daphia(water fleas)....

or a earth worm farm!

penguinpimp1990 · Dec 13, 2005

i think your refering to the "commonly available live foods" pinned article, it wont help as it doesnt specify how to culture them, it just a guide mostly for feeding. As for earth worms i really hate the idea of them as they gross me out :crazy:

although i dont mind smaller worms like blackworms. Maybe ill do a daphnia and brine shrimp setups :hey:

any other recomendations would help as google isnt too much help right now

Lynden · Dec 13, 2005

You could try snails. For instance, I have a pond snail, and after 3 months of being separated from all of his crew, he just laid 2 clutches of eggs. Hes either using his asexual talents to clone himself, or hes storing eggs and sperm from three months ago.

My point is that snails are very prolific, and cichlids, catfish, puffers, and loaches are fond of consuming them. Also, pond snails born in captivity are often almost 100% disease free. Unless you raise them in a cesspit, or just the origional pondwater.

-Lynden