do you breed your feeders or just restock every so often? I'm totally up to feed live but if I just drop a ghost in my tank I guarentee my puffer or eel would gobble it up before the lionfish sees its in the water, as for mollies I heard freshwater fish is bad for them longterm (not knocking your info just what I've heard and would like to know what you think)
Dwarf lionfish questions!
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Their main food are gut loaded vitamin/efa enhanced ghosties. Mollies are actually more of a brackish fish living better in sg 1.012 than fresh and are actually easy to live in full salt even reef conditions. They are live bearers and are closest and even safer than feeding traditional saltwater fish like damsels or chromis; and much cheaper. You can easily and I have even bred mollies in saltwater, I kept them at 1.018. There's a large difference from a molly to a goldfish. Guppies and even platys are also a good choice but can't be acclimated to salt. It beats starving to death or having an ornament that eats. My fu manchu is now over 5 years with me on this diet, unless you cut him open and found a fatty liver I don't think you'll ever know. Ask someone who can even keep a fu manchu alive at all; and he swims like crazy, I thought something might be wrong with him(lol). Breeding ghosties is just not feasible to me, and yes it is expensive, I'm feeding 6 mouths.
I'm going to find a decent Tupperware to house some ghosts and just put a small filter in it. I've never used vitamins before, and honestly dont know the first thing about them, would you mind recommending some you use?
I'm presently using Brightwell Vitamin M and Aminomega. Selcon is also a good efa, I've also used Kent Zoe and Vitachem. Every other feeding or so I'll put the food to feed in a container with tank water and few drops of each, the aminomega instructs doing this when feeding live food. You can also soak what ever food you're feeding with it for 10 minutes or so as directed. A bottle will literally last you a year, it's good insurance; why not.
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