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How long do you think a fish can live off of newly hatched (Less than 12 hours old) brine shrimp? It seems to be all my goby will eat. Are they nutritious enough to be a sole food?
I think new hatched brine is supposed to be pretty good food, from what I have read if you can feed them before the yolk reserves are used up (12 hours??) they are good for fish.
If he will eat the live baby brine, I think the next thing you should try is dead baby brine. That may make it easier for your goby to accept other frozen foods like mysis. I discovered this on accident once, when I had some less than a week old banggai cardinals, I accidentally left the air off the brine hatchery and all the bbs died.
I let the baby banggai get pretty hungry, then I swirled in the dead BBS in the same manner that I always added the live brine. They ate it! After that I slowly started mixing in finely shredded mysis. They ate it all! I had never had banggai even look at dead food before until they were at least several weeks old.
Another good thing to try is if you can get your goby used to having the baby brine deposited next to him through a turkey baster (maybe an eye dropper would be more appropriate given the size of the baby brine and the goby) Or you could suck some up in a piece of rigid airline tubing and use your finger over the end to slowly release it into the area near the goby. I trained a finger dragonette to eat dead food this way, starting with live brine from the turkey baster. He quickly saw the TB as a food delivery device, and would come swimming when I put it in the tank, nipping at the end. I gradually introduced dead adult brine, then mysis, and he began scarfing it all down.
If he will eat the live baby brine, I think the next thing you should try is dead baby brine. That may make it easier for your goby to accept other frozen foods like mysis. I discovered this on accident once, when I had some less than a week old banggai cardinals, I accidentally left the air off the brine hatchery and all the bbs died.
I let the baby banggai get pretty hungry, then I swirled in the dead BBS in the same manner that I always added the live brine. They ate it! After that I slowly started mixing in finely shredded mysis. They ate it all! I had never had banggai even look at dead food before until they were at least several weeks old.
Another good thing to try is if you can get your goby used to having the baby brine deposited next to him through a turkey baster (maybe an eye dropper would be more appropriate given the size of the baby brine and the goby) Or you could suck some up in a piece of rigid airline tubing and use your finger over the end to slowly release it into the area near the goby. I trained a finger dragonette to eat dead food this way, starting with live brine from the turkey baster. He quickly saw the TB as a food delivery device, and would come swimming when I put it in the tank, nipping at the end. I gradually introduced dead adult brine, then mysis, and he began scarfing it all down.
Maybe cyclop-eeze as an alternate food?
I've gotten this stuff a couple of times from Inland Reef and the smaller fish really like it. Some of the corals (including some of the acros) eat it too.
I've gotten this stuff a couple of times from Inland Reef and the smaller fish really like it. Some of the corals (including some of the acros) eat it too.
freshly hatched Artemia is actually a pretty good food source. Althou 12hrs might be getting to the point of them being nutritionally depleted. You'll want to enrich the artemia w/ a suppliment like phytoplanktons and/or Selcon.
I wrote up this article last yr, you might find it useful
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... reeder.htm
frank
I wrote up this article last yr, you might find it useful
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... reeder.htm
frank
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Not too sure about this, but I think that newly hatched artemia- nutritious because of the yolk sac on which they are living- don't start filter feeding until their first molt (consequently, after the yolk sac is gone) So you can't really enrich new artemia with anything because they won't eat it...
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