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Re: [Killietalk] Anyone using commercial red crumb food (Tim Addis)
I don't know about killies but when I tried to get angels to eat the
cyclopeseze, they would spit it out. I mixed with baby brine shrimp. Tried
introducing it at different ages ... nothing.
I guess it depends on the type of fish.
Richard Brice
----- Original Message -----
From: "karl doering" <kilikarl at bignet_net>
To: "George & Melanie Caruso" <caraway1 at centurytel_net>; "killifish
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Anyone using commercial red crumb food (Tim Addis)
> When the shrimp egg's went up over $60.00 buck a can I only hatched 1/2 of
> my normal 2 teaspoons & supplemented it with frozen forms of
> cyclopeeze.Work
> ok they seem to eat it.
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> From: "George & Melanie Caruso" <caraway1 at centurytel_net>
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> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 5:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Anyone using commercial red crumb food (Tim
> Addis)
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>> As I had stated some time ago I have tried the freeze dried as well as
>> the
>> frozen forms of cyclopeeze. My killies were not to enthused about the
>> freeze
>> dried form but all readily eat the frozen form. I found the frozen form
>> in
>> a
>> 1/2 inch square by 10 inch long stick form that is not too expensive.
>> This
>> was at a salt water shop. The salesman there told me it is a highly used
>> food for the saltwater fish. The only other frozen size I have seen is in
>> the large block.
>> George
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Behrmann" <athensaquatics at juno_com>
>> To: <micro at earlblewett_net>; <killietalk at aka_org>
>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 4:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Anyone using commercial red crumb food (Tim
>> Addis)
>>
>>
>>> Hi Earl, I never had any success with cyclops in any state. My killies
>>> won't even eat live cyclops. Don't know why but it's a fact. Fred
>>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:09:21 -0500 "Earl Blewett"
>>> <micro at earlblewett_net>
>>> writes:
>>>> Dear FishFolk,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reading the cyclopeeze posting got me curious about how many people
>>>> use the
>>>> commercially milled red crumb food from Tim Addis in the UK?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I use the fine powder (and grind it smaller with a mortar and
>>>> pestle) for
>>>> all my fry, killies, halfbeaks and rainbows. I use two larger grades
>>>> for
>>>> almost all my fish. Dario dario, Badis corycaeus and E. evergladei
>>>> don't
>>>> take it but nothos, lampeyes, Aphyosemons, cichlids, and inverts
>>>> like cherry
>>>> shrimp, and snails all love it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I store the large bag in the freezer and have small containers at
>>>> room
>>>> temperature. I feed a lot of live food but the red crumb is the
>>>> morning
>>>> staple.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I fed Nomorhamphus liemi (harlequin halfbeak livebearer) almost
>>>> entirely on
>>>> this and had many healthy fry.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just curious to see how many people use this food. I have never had
>>>> much
>>>> success with cyclopeeze.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Earl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Earl L. Blewett Ph.D.
>>>>
>>>> Assoc. Professor of Microbiology
>>>>
>>>> Dept of Biochemistry and Microbiology
>>>>
>>>> Oklahoma State University - Center for Health Sciences
>>>>
>>>> 1111 West 17th Street
>>>>
>>>> Tulsa, OK 74107
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> micro at earlblewett_net
>>>>
>>>> Office (918) 561-8405
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Fred Behrmann
>>> Athens Aquatics
>>> 37 W. Bridge Street
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