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foods and feeding
While on foods, another food I have been using lately is
freshwater mysis shrimp. It is put out by a company called Piscine Energetics
and this is, apparantly, the only brand that is truly FRESHWATER mysis shrimp
from Canada. Seahorse keepers are wild for it. It has very very high protein
content -- 69.5%. It also has a high fat content which is the new rage in
fishfoods. The shrimp are frozen whole and look great. You must thaw them in
water first and rinse them well but gently as the little bit of frozen water
they are in is pretty cloudy. Apparantly, these shrimp have all those strange
HUFA's that are so important too. They are a little bigger than a fully adult
brine shrimp but much smaller than an adult grass or ghost shrimp. It takes
the fish a while to eat them as they have to pick the shell apart -- a SJO
would just swallow them whole! They have no salt content and some people feel
that the salt content in brine shrimp contributes to bloat problems. They are
just a bit more costly than frozen brine shrimp in 8 oz. packages, but you
use much less at a feeding so it probably works out to be the same or even
cheaper. I can't wait to see what they do to color and egg production. If I
had SJO right now I would be feeding them this for sure. The seahorse site <
www.oceanriders.com > has alot about this food and I think it has a link to
where you can order it. One of the local shops here in Houston carries it. I
am sold.
Robert E.
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