Re: Brine shrimp question Attachment has been scanned for viruses

["Tyrone Genade" <Tgenade at sun_ac.za>]

On 3 Oct 2002, at 14:29, Wright Huntley wrote:

> Just another fish food, coupled with a dash of hype. Mike uses quite a
> bit of egg in it (or used to) so it is fairly good nutrition for
> babies starting out. Trouble is, many will not touch anything not
> wriggling, so they sit there and starve to death looking at it.

I have had excellent growth of fish on this food. Many  do not touch 
it at first though which is sad. I have had good sucess feeding it to 
surface hugging fry (such as Aphyolebias but would like to repeat the 
experiment).
Once the fish try it they will take it continually. The fish really 
do like the taste. Fry of gardneri and lineatus will probably take it 
as a first food too. I'm not sure about australe.

If you want to try place the fry in shallow tub with some aeration 
for water movement and feed small amount with baby brine shrimp and 
slowly switch over just to the NoBS. You will have to do frequent 
water changes as the nonliving food will degrade the water faster. 
Frequent water changes are good for fry so it is a win-win situation 
if the fry take the food.

> BBS, microworms, vinegar eels, green water, rotifers and paramecia are
> too easy and too available to get too excited about it, IMHO.

Pound for pound the No-BS is more nutirous but Wright is right, if 
you can feed the REAL thing why try anything else.

I have feed the fine NoBS to Aphyolebias "Ifakara", Psuedomugil 
gertrudae and signifer fry from the word go. I have also tried it on 
Whitei and nigripinnis fry with good sucess.

I've used the micro-granulate No-BS on my amieti last year and had 
fully coloured up adults in 2 months which were 5 cm long (don't know 
if that is special). Most of the fish took it after a little 
persuasion.

Experiment and tell us what you think.

Keep well

Tyrone Genade
tgenade at sun_ac.za
http://www.tyronegenade.0catch.com
cell#: 084-3354-977

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