which brine shrimp?

[chikistar]

hey all, i never gave brine shrimp to my fish so i have a question, which brine shrimp should i buy? in my LFS they have frozen brine shrimp, they have live brine shrimp which costs 1$ and they have these big cubes sold in bottles and it states its brine shrimp, which one do u feed urs?

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

I feed mine frozen brineshrimp.

[NickFish]

Frozen all the way.

You can also use freeze-dried I guess, but Hikari is really the only brand that makes freeze-dried foods that come anywhere near to frozen foods.

[chikistar]

oh sweet so ill buy the frozen brine shrimp today, how do u guys feed it and how often? do they bottom dwellers come like right away to get it or it takes them a while?

[SkinnyChicken]

For some reason I don't understand, none of my fish will eat freeze-dried brine shrimp. Can't figure out why. I give them weekend treats of live shrimp and blood worms.

The bottom feeders rarely get a look in - I never see any reach the bottom of the tank.

[chikistar]

i bought frozen brine shrimp today! its like little cubes, i didnt feed yet because i only have bottom dwellers, no fish, i just cant decide which fish to buy, anyway do i cut the cube into pieces aswell or just throw in 1 full cube every weekend as a treat?

[NickFish]

i bought frozen brine shrimp today! its like little cubes, i didnt feed yet because i only have bottom dwellers, no fish, i just cant decide which fish to buy, anyway do i cut the cube into pieces aswell or just throw in 1 full cube every weekend as a treat?

Unless you have a ton of fish, just cut the cubes into the appropriate size piece. You only need to feed brine shrimp once or twice a week.

You can wrap a piece of aquarium metal around the cube to get it to sink to the bottom for your bottom dwellers, but they don't seem to like brine as much as other fish do.

[chikistar]

oh ok i got u, so im gonna cut it down to pieces and give it to them

[siymdapolio]

yea i agree with all the above posts and skinnchicken my fish only like live treats lol and freeze dried blood worms....

I feed my live feed specially for the new gourami as well... It requires live food but my botttom dweller goes nuts on the live baby brine shrimp lol when they fall to the bottom he starts acting like a freaking vacum cleaner bringing his mouth up and coming down on the shrimp!! Looks awesome!

good luck with your feedins!

[LosC]

Get Hikari

[smaug]

I feed the spirulina enhanced brine shrimp from the san fran bay company.2 cubes thawed ,twice a week.

[chikistar]

what does thawed mean?

[smaug]

They are frozen,I thaw the cubes out in a small container and dump them in.The fish are like pirhana with it.

[chikistar]

very nice m8. what kind of fish do u have? right now i only have 6 cories and 2 clown loaches , iwant to get some small fish like 2 guppies or a platy or tetra im so confused on what fish to buy..

[smaug]

Me?My fish list is in my signature.They also sell the frozen brine shrimp in a sheet so you can break off smaller pieces.

[chikistar]

EDIT: oh nvm i got it.

[jman]

For some reason I don't understand, none of my fish will eat freeze-dried brine shrimp. Can't figure out why. I give them weekend treats of live shrimp and blood worms.

The bottom feeders rarely get a look in - I never see any reach the bottom of the tank.

sometimes u may have to soak your freeze dried food. You can soak in protein for good health advantages and such. The thing with frozen food is that when its ice melts it releases everything and for the fish it tends to be better (some fish think when frozen food is released it is alive...so they attack it) iv'e learned a while back that when you thaw out your frozen food it helps in feedin your fish because they don't have to break down cubes and the nutrients is out before feeding. I think recreating this with freeze dried food is the best way to get fish to go after it if they do once normally they continue to go after it just as everything else.

[smaug]

sometimes u may have to soak your freeze dried food. You can soak in protein for good health advantages and such. The thing with frozen food is that when its ice melts it releases everything and for the fish it tends to be better (some fish think when frozen food is released it is alive...so they attack it) iv'e learned a while back that when you thaw out your frozen food it helps in feedin your fish because they don't have to break down cubes and the nutrients is out before feeding. I think recreating this with freeze dried food is the best way to get fish to go after it if they do once normally they continue to go after it just as everything else.
I cant think of any reason that frozen food would lose its nutrition thawed.The nutrients are inside the frozen shrimp and because they are flash frozen none would be lost in a length freezing process.I have fed it both ways myself,and the big reason for me thawing first is to makes sure my angel and bala do not eat the whole cube themselves.

[graceluvsplatys]

If you can get a live brine shrimp thing going ( think sea monkeys!) I think that is good as they not only get a treat, but they have to catch it 2!