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Baby brine:1. Which live food is the easiest to grow at home?
I hatch live baby brine biweekly to supplement frozen and pellet foods2. Have you ever grown your own live aquarium food and which type was it?
I think baby brine is great for the fish and phytoplankton is good for the coral and tank.3. Which live food, that you can grow at home, is the most beneficial to feed?
You have a website you can share r/t culturing them? What good did they bring your tank?I had been growing white worms for my tank. I started as a way to try and get a CBB to eat. All you need is a tub of dirt with some food in a cool dark place. I have since neglected it and the cultures died but I'm considering starting them back up.
I got a lot of my information from a longtime aquarist on here @Paul B and from a YouTube Channel (David Ramsey). I started culturing white worms as a possible food source for a picky copperband butterfly fish that wouldn't eat. I can't answer any specific questions about how nutritious they are for the tank but I do know that everything in my tank loves them. They really are as easy to grow as putting some in a tub of moist dirt (or apparently coconut fiber) along with some food (I used wheat bread with full fat yogurt and yeast sprinkled on top). Just put the tub in a dark cool place and wait for them to multiply. Just add new food or replace the uneaten food every few days.You have a website you can share r/t culturing them? What good did they bring your tank?
hey Mark, what challenges are you facing? I've been really lucky with phytho but pods just haven't worked for me. Still trying to figure out what to do differently.I have grown both phytoplankton and copepods semi-successfully this year. Working on my new culturing setup in preparation for a mandarin fish.
I started skipping the bread after a week or so. I found the worms would dig in, meaning I'd throw them away when I tossed the moldy bread. Maybe wouldn't be a problem once the culture is big enough to eat it all. Is there any reason just yogurt and yeast would be bad? I just put a dollop of the yogurt directly on the mesh, and sprinkle some yeast over it. Worms seem to be doing well so far. Big gross snotty mess of them on the mesh when I check on them in the morning anyway. ;VomitI got a lot of my information from a longtime aquarist on here @Paul B and from a YouTube Channel (David Ramsey). I started culturing white worms as a possible food source for a picky copperband butterfly fish that wouldn't eat. I can't answer any specific questions about how nutritious they are for the tank but I do know that everything in my tank loves them. They really are as easy to grow as putting some in a tub of moist dirt (or apparently coconut fiber) along with some food (I used wheat bread with full fat yogurt and yeast sprinkled on top). Just put the tub in a dark cool place and wait for them to multiply. Just add new food or replace the uneaten food every few days.
I am far from an expert on them but I assume as long as the culture is growing on just the yogurt and yeast then it would probably be fine. For a while I was feeding them cat food just because it was easier, so I don't think they're all that picky.I started skipping the bread after a week or so. I found the worms would dig in, meaning I'd throw them away when I tossed the moldy bread. Maybe wouldn't be a problem once the culture is big enough to eat it all. Is there any reason just yogurt and yeast would be bad? I just put a dollop of the yogurt directly on the mesh, and sprinkle some yeast over it. Worms seem to be doing well so far. Big gross snotty mess of them on the mesh when I check on them in the morning anyway. ;Vomit
I've had my phyto crash a few times. That's why I changed culturing vessels. I was using a plastic apple juice container that had ridges that the phyto would get hung up on.hey Mark, what challenges are you facing? I've been really lucky with phytho but pods just haven't worked for me. Still trying to figure out what to do differently.
Fair enough. Just didn't know if I was missing out on some nutritional value for the fish.I am far from an expert on them but I assume as long as the culture is growing on just the yogurt and yeast then it would probably be fine. For a while I was feeding them cat food just because it was easier, so I don't think they're all that picky.
Sorry but I don't have any clue. My guess would be if there is food that is allowing the worms to grow then it is probably nutritious enough for the fish too. Again just my speculation though.Fair enough. Just didn't know if I was missing out on some nutritional value for the fish.
Any tips I have one and nothing hatch. Tried 2x threw in closet big black dish hole in middleBaby brine shrimp. Super easy. Cheap too. Just buy or 3D print a hatchery. Get the one that looks like a dish with a lid. Has a hole in the middle. Saltwater and brine shrimp eggs. A day later. You have baby brine shrimp. Couldn’t be easier
No prob. More rhetorical than expecting an answer from you. Wondering out loud.Sorry but I don't have any clue. My guess would be if there is food that is allowing the worms to grow then it is probably nutritious enough for the fish too. Again just my speculation though.
A picture, or two, would be much appreciated. Sounds very interesting.I grow a few. I grow multiple cultures of nannochloropsis as it is my staple food source for my pods. The nannochloropsis is grown out in six 1 litre bottles and harvested every other day. I sell off what I don't use in that time between harvests. I have multiple ziss brine shrimp hatcheries set up for baby brine. I hatch daily and again sell off what I do not use. The brine left over is fed nannochloropsis until used or sold. The tispe, tigs, and cycs are all grown out in blacked out 5 gallon buckets. I have three separate cultures of each which are also fed nannochloropsis. I harvest regularly to keep my pod populations up as I have many pod eating fishes. I sell off from time to time whenever I am doing water changes. It works moderately well but takes up a little time each day, alot of space, and looks like a mad scientist lab. Been running it all since 2009.