Re: Inducing breeding...again?

[Wright Huntley <jwwiii at pacbell_net>]

I'll go with David on this one.

Here are a couple of what *I* think are useful facts:

*Frozen* Artemia are nearly worthless unless flash-frozen by cryogenic 
techniques. The bodies disintegrate when thawed and the nutrient juice is 
spread through the tank and not eaten. Water fouling is severe, and the fish 
starve, while eating the empty skeletons.

Artemia from the mountain lakes of the far west are totally worthless as 
food, because killifish show absolutely zero growth when fed them. [That is 
well documented by serious controlled studies.]

SF Bay salt-pond and GSL Artemia are fairly nutritious if fed live or when 
properly frozen. [Unfortunately, not enough use the patented process, 
developed  by SF Bay Brand, to use CO2-chilled slabs to instant-freeze the 
Artemia. Those that do, provide Artemia that stay whole when they thaw.]

Adult Artemia are much less rich in fatty acids and other high-energy food 
value than some other foods like worms, but are an important part of any 
good maintenance diet if you have no live mosquito larvae, glass worms, 
Daphnia, o/e.

Some are even sold as frozen and gut-loaded, I understand. Since I have 
access to excellent live Artemia, I have not tried those.

Wright

David Lains wrote:
> Hi Chris
> 
> Don't under estimate the nutritional value of brine shrimp.  Its best to
> feed a varied diet but if they were worthless how do you explain the
> thousand plus killies in my fish room?  I would guess that 90% + of my
> fishes diet consists on newly hatched bbs.  Most of the time I have too many
> fry from a particular species to collect eggs.  If you allow them to age in
> the cone the do rapidly loose nutrition but they are packed with fats and
> protein.
> 
> Best Fishes
> David Lains <}}}><
> 
>><{{{>I don't feed Brine Shrimp to ANY of my fish(except baby brine
>><{{{>shrimp to my fry). I highly prefer redworms, mysis shrimp,
>><{{{>and plankton. My fish highly prefer them too.  They are much
>><{{{>more eager to eat these over BS. On a slightly side note, I
>><{{{>finaly moved 3 Golden Wonders into my tengallon and the next
>><{{{>day I found eggs! This was on a feeding of a few freezedried
>><{{{>foods, frozen plankton, redworms, and mysis shrimp, and NO
>><{{{>brine shrimp, lol. Meaning, sstop feeding brine shrimp, they
>><{{{>are worthless as far as nutritional value goes, it's like
>><{{{>eating papaer, and start feeding worms and stuff like that.
>><{{{>
> 


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