Re: [Killietalk] Why is frozen (adult) brine shrimp considered a"worthless food"

["Al Anderson" <augustand at sbcglobal_net>]

Frozen brine shrimp are a great food if they are handled properly, 
apparently in your case the place that you buy them from has a good delivery 
system. Better than half of the shops that carry brine shrimp in the Indy 
area sell frozen brine that at times is black from being thawed and 
refrozen. Often the stuff is delivered in 90 degree weather from Chicago in 
un refrigerated trucks a long with the fish, the drivers stock the dealers 
freezer and by the he gets to it the fish are put away the brine is refrozen 
then some jerk like me comes along and buys it for $12.00 a lb. and when it 
is thawed it looks like mush with few if any whole shrimps. So watch what 
you buy the pet shops are there tot make a buck and do not care what they 
sell because dumb me has no where else to go, so they think. I get my frozen 
brine 50 lbs at a time and pick it up at the air port where it is still 
solid as a rock.

aa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce J. Turner, Dept. Biol. Sci., VPISU, Blacksburg,VA 240" 
<fishgen at vt_edu>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:45 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] Why is frozen (adult) brine shrimp considered 
a"worthless food"


>
> In a recent post, some one included frozen brine shrimp in a list of 
> supposedly
> worthless foods...  Why?  I have raised many fish, including killies like 
> blue
> gularis,and perhaps 12 species of cichlids, on diets that consisted of 
> about
> half frozen adult brine shrimp.  I agree that dried ant eggs are 
> worthless, but
> why put frozen brine shrimp in the same category?  I also find frozen 
> Artemia
> nauplii a valuable supplementary food for fry of some species, and for 
> adults
> of smaller species like Poecilia wingei.
>
> I also ask the same question about frozen Daphnia, though I have much less
> experience with it.  I admit that I have always been puzzled as to why 
> live
> Daphnia is such an obviously great food (I understand it is mostly shell 
> and
> water), but I don't understand why the frozen form should be more 
> "worthless"
> than the live animals...
>
> Bruce J. Turner
> Dept. Biol. Sci.
> VIRGINIA TECH
> Blacksburg, VA 24061
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