What Type Of Live Food Can I Raise?

[Duck and Dive]

Hi

I have been trying to raise brine shrimp but it hasn't been very succesful. Is there any other live food that I could hatch or raise?

 

[Ian H]

what kind of fish are you feeding?

you realise brine shrimp need salt/brackish water? (sorry if you knew already!)

 

[luque]

yer would be handy to know the fis you are going to feed, because you could feed them guppy fry, but it looks like you like guppie

 

[guppy_man]

I can remember someone telling me that they grew microworms for their fry, by putting a banana skin in a jug of water and leaving it infront of a window on a hot day.

depending on the size of fish your feeding they are probably a bit small.

 

[Colin_T]

Daphnia can be grown outdoors in tubs of green water, as can mozzie larvae and cyclops.
Gammaris will live outdoors in green water too but they feed on rotting plant matter so you have to feed them on lettuce leaves.
Microworms are best grown in 2litre icecream buckets containing a thin layer of cooked oatmeal, sprinkled with bakers yeast. New cultures need to be made up every few weeks because they start to go off after a couple of weeks.
Grindle and white worms can be kept in containers of peat or fertiliser free potting mix and fed on dry baby cereal. You have a piece of glass on the peat and the worms gather on the underside of it. You lift the glass out and rinse the worms off into the tank.
Wingless Fruit flies can be cultured in 2litre plastic bottles. They are available from most universities.
Tadpoles are a good food and will appear in most ponds during the warmer months

 

[DarkSide]

Triops could also be raised, as there are kits to raising them, along with that they grow fairly fast and are easy enough to raise, so it should be fairly easy to get a breeding population going.

 

[Duck and Dive]

I want to feed the food to guppies and baby guppies

 

[Colin_T]

daphnia, cyclops, microworms and small mozzie larvae are great food for guppies, big and small. So is brineshrimp nauplii.

 

[BigC]

Here read my Killifish pinned post.
http/www.fishforums.net/content/Killifis...-Own-Livefoods/
Regards
BigC