Food for feeder mollies?

[WesternSpyKolya]

So I have a goblin scorpionfish and a zebra lionfish, I also have feeder mollies and I know that lionfish cannot have a lot of thiaminase so would the fish food I feed to mollies be enough for the lion and scorpionfish?

Ingredients: Shrimps, squid, herring meal, mycoprotein, krill, insect meal, alfalfa, brown dye dry, wheat, salmon oil, zeolite, paprika, garlic, crabspawn, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin C, vitamin E, L-lysin, DL-Methionin, betain, beta glukan, iron, iodine, manganese, zinc, L-caritinin, astaxathin.

 

[Doctorgori]

Sre you gut loading them or just trying to maintain them?
Also are you buying the feeders or raising them yourself?

 

[WesternSpyKolya]

I'm going to gutload them and maintain them with the same food, I'm also currently buying them but I plan on raising them myself.

 

[pythpyth]

How are you doing? I got 2 dwarf lionfishes a fu manchu and a fuzzy, I want to give them live food as well. How is the breeding going?

 

[Subsea]

How are you doing? I got 2 dwarf lionfishes a fu manchu and a fuzzy, I want to give them live food as well. How is the breeding going?

Mollies are easy to breed. More than 30 years ago, CQuest in Porto Rico was the first hatchery that raised clownfish. They also raised native marine mollies that were gorgeous and I raised third & fourth generation mollies. Once they eat marine algae, they have nutritional value to sustain marine predators in captivity.

 

[pythpyth]

Mollies are easy to breed. More than 30 years ago, CQuest in Porto Rico was the first hatchery that raised clownfish. They also raised native marine mollies that were gorgeous and I raised third & fourth generation mollies. Once they eat marine algae, they have nutritional value to sustain marine predators in captivity.

Thats a good thing that you say that, that they need marine algae. Wouldn`t they be for any nutritional being fresh water fish? And what is the best way to approach that?

 

[Subsea]

“Thats a good thing that you say that, that they need marine algae. Wouldn`t they be for any nutritional being fresh water fish? And what is the best way to approach that?”

Not sure what you mean by this post. I eat marine algae in several dishes. It is a super food for people.
I assume fresh water fish would benefit from eating marine seaweeds.

 

[pythpyth]

Not sure what you mean by this post. I ear marine algae in several dishes. It is a super food for people;I
I assume fresh water fish would benefit from eating marine seaweeds.

I am sorry haha, I meant like real live marine seaweeds. But you mean like spirulina and hikari wafers and such? To gutload them with that? That is indeed possible in fresh water as well ofcourse.

 

[Subsea]

I grow ornamental seaweed for sale to LFS. However, I enjoy fresh seaweed from the tank: I rinse it in fresh water, then a splash of soy sauce & a drizzle of lime juice. I also make a cheviche with it: Gracilaria Parvispora, Tang Heaven Red, Red Ogo are differrent names for same thing.

http://ipsf.com/tangheaven.html
Tang Heaven Red™
The natural red seaweed diet of Tangs
Yellows, Hippos, Nasos, Blues, Koles, Achilles, etc. as well as many omnivores such as pygmy angels. Why invest in "terrestrial" diets like Romaine lettuce when a superior marine alternative is now available? Tang Heaven Red is 100% live natural seaweed from the place that made tangs famous - Hawaii's Kona coast. Tested and proven by IPSF for more than ten years as a COMPLETE diet for all of the popular ornamental surgeonfishes. High in natural fibers, which are known to combat, prevent and cure head and lateral line erosion disease. More convenient and economical than nori (dried seaweed). We achieve TOTAL wild color retention in Hawaiian tangs with the high levels of fresh pigments in Tang Heaven Red. Rich in garlic esters, Tang Heaven Red has superior medicinal properties which must be experienced to be fully appreciated. Shipped alive as moist fronds which you can add directly as food to your main tank, or float it in your sump or refugium as a living filter to remove ammonia, nitrates and phosphates.

 

[Subsea]

https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/our-wor...ietary-hatchery-technology-seaweed-production

 

[Subsea]

I am sorry haha, I meant like real live marine seaweeds. But you mean like spirulina and hikari wafers and such? To gutload them with that? That is indeed possible in fresh water as well ofcourse.

Consider a species tank of mollies & red Ogo. Both are desirable & marketable. The mollies will not eat the red Ogo, but they will eat the biofilm on every surface in their marine ecosystem and they are prolific live bearers.