The Beast Maker - Renee's Predatory Training Tank

[Lionfish Lair]

Not once I train them to frozen.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Getting ready to make some vitamins with the ghost shrimp.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

 

[cmcoker]

What are you injecting them with? B complex?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

It's a cocktail of different stuff. That one had some Spirulina, so it was pretty green. Beta glucan, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Krill oil... I think that's it.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

SUCH a COOL thread!! Enjoying this!

 

[Lionfish Lair]

The thread is not what I intended, unfortunately. I wanted to video all the little things I do, like even how I jiggle the stick, but he converted easier than I thought. I'm going to fill him up before the next video, so that maybe I'll have to pull out some techniques to convince him to take more. Right now he's running to the front of the tank when I enter the garage, so he already knows I'm a source of food. That's why I squat down and stare at the tank before I offer food.

Some fish recognize who feeds them and who doesn't in a household. They beg when I'm around and not my husband. I know seahorses recognize people as well. I had to remove this one seahorse every day to put a topical on his tail. He hated me. I couldn't go near the tank without him freaking out. My husband had to feed that tank. The radiata I just moved to the 210g was also avoiding me and not my husband.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Here's the tip of the feeding stick.

 

[Sandroni]

This is very cool, I am excited to see the progression.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I probably should clean this tank up a bit if I'm showing videos. LOL.

You can see he has no problem taking the vitamin filled shrimp.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Today's vitamins... you can see one shrimp is filled, while the other two are empty. I call them Pred Packs.

 

[carlson]

It's a cocktail of different stuff. That one had some Spirulina, so it was pretty green. Beta glucan, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Krill oil... I think that's it.

That's such a good idea

 

[carlson]

Today's vitamins...

Are those dried shrimp? They look exactly like what my turtle gets fed haha sometimes I give it to my blue spot puffer but he's a very picky eater

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Are those dried shrimp? They look exactly like what my turtle gets fed haha sometimes I give it to my blue spot puffer but he's a very picky eater

Yup! After I wean them off of live, I freeze some and dehydrate others. I actually dehydrate them (without heat), then fill them up with a liquid and then dry them some more. If I don't do the second drying, some of vitamins ooze out in the end product. With the second drying, I can put medication in there and they won't even taste it. After I fill them, I also let them sit in another liquid to coat the outside, to make them tastier and to soften them.

If anyone decides to dry shrimp, make sure you remove the rostrum. They are little sharp needles after the process and can even draw blood from ones finger. Ask me how I know......

 

[carlson]

Yup! After I wean them off of live, I freeze some and dehydrate others. I actually dehydrate them (without heat), then fill them up with a liquid and then dry them some more. If I don't do the second drying, some of vitamins ooze out in the end product. With the second drying, I can put medication in there and they won't even taste it. After I fill them, I also let them sit in another liquid to coat the outside, to make them tastier and to soften them.

If anyone decides to dry shrimp, make sure you remove the rostrum. They are little sharp needles after the process and can even draw blood from ones finger. Ask me how I know......

And those are ghost shrimp right? Is the main reason you don't just feed them live shrimp so you can put vitamins in them?

 

[carlson]

I think i need to spend some more time with my puffer getting him to eat my dried shrimp to wear down his teeth

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I don't like the work of keeping the live ones around if they are not needed. Especially in the summer or winter, as I keep them in the garage and the temps swing in there. Once a month or so I go buy more shrimp to make vitamins and I throw a few live ones in the tanks occasionally.

These are hard enough to wear down puffer teeth.

 

[jsker]

Pretty cool Renee,

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Thanks!

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Here I am filling one up.